Crop Management
Winnipeg,(MarketsFarm) – Soybean and corn futures at the Chicago Board of Trade have recovered off of nearby lows, but remain rangebound overall waiting for fresh news to push values one way or the other. The United States Department of Agriculture holds its Agriculture Outlook Forum on Feb. 20-21. The agency’s first acreage and supply/demand estimates […] Read more
Crop Management
USDA lowers U.S. soybean/wheat ending stocks, corn unchanged
Winnipeg,(MarketsFarm) – The United States Department of Agriculture lowered its 2019/20 projections for U.S. soybean and wheat ending stocks in its latest World Agriculture Supply and Demand Estimates report (WASDE), released Feb. 11, but kept the corn carryout projection unchanged. Soybean stocks at the end of the current marketing year are now forecast at 425 […] Read more
Scoular to sell edible bean business
Winnipeg,(MarketsFarm) – The Scoular Company has entered into an agreement to divest its edible beans business to Michigan-based Cooperative Elevator Co., the companies announced in a press release Feb. 7. Scoular’s edible bean business includes processing plants in Plum Coulee and Morden, Man. It also has a plant in St. Hilaire, Minnesota, and receiving stations […] Read more
Western Canadian wheat: Lower loonie strengthens Prairie bids
WINNIPEG,(MarketsFarm) – Wheat bids in Western Canada for the week ended Feb. 6 were up for Canadian Western Red Spring Wheat (CWRS) and Canada Prairie Red Spring (CPRS). Bids for Canadian Western Amber Durum (CWAD) were steady to higher. The Canadian dollar was down by approximately four-tenths of a cent during the week. Average CWRS […] Read more
Revising numbers on Brazil’s massive soybean crop
WINNIPEG, (MarketsFarm) – There is one certainty when it comes to Brazil’s soybean crop for 2020/21 – it’s going to be massive. With the harvest well underway, a few recent projections have far exceeded the estimated 117.0 million tonnes produced in 2019/20. The forecasts came out ahead of the next grain harvest survey from Companhia […] Read more
Bin danger peaks with cold weather
CORRECTION – February 7, 2020 – GSI and Winnipeg-based 151 Research are partnering to bring GrainViz, a revolutionary new grain monitoring system, to market. The original version of this story incorrectly stated that GSI had purchased GrainViz from 151 Research. The drawn-out 2019 harvest forced farmers to store grain at high moisture levels. This increases […] Read more
The agronomy of bin accidents
Although Nebraska farmer Guy Mills is equipped to handle plugged augers and concrete-solid spoiled grain in the bin, his preference is to attack the problem 10 months before it happens. Mills thinks about keeping people out of his bins as he plans next season. His approach to bin safety starts sometime the previous winter as […] Read more
Seeding canola later may outsmart flea beetles
The idea is that warmer soil in the second half of May can allow plants to develop more rapidly and outgrow the threat
Severe flea beetle pressure may be the new normal for western Canadian canola growers. In the last few years, flea beetles have caused massive damage to canola crops across the Prairies, forcing thousands of producers to re-seed canola or use a foliar insecticide to control the pests. Such conditions may now be “chronic,” said John […] Read moreProducers need a variety of tools to successfully manage clubroot
When you’re dealing with armies of clubroot spores, use your shotgun. That was the advice from two Canola Council of Canada agronomists who urged Manitoba farmers to start suppressing now, before they face an Alberta-like situation. Looking for any silver bullet to kill the quickly spreading disease is probably futile. It has multiple means of […] Read more
Big air compressor safely clears out plugged bin augers
$150 worth of hardware could keep you from climbing into that bin and making a fatal error unclogging the flow
A tool to unplug bin augers would keep people out of bins and could potentially save someone’s life someday. The solution is an air compressor and some cheap pipe. Nebraska corn grower Guy Mills explained how it works in the Jan. 29 issue of Farm Journal AgWeb. Mills states that entrapment kills and he does […] Read more
