Crop Management
NEW YORK — Leaving the doors open hasn’t been the typical strategy for crop input companies, big or small. However, crop genetics and protection company Corteva Agriscience has a plan to change that as it charts its own path as a standalone, public company. The combination of keeping proprietary business information tightly held in a […] Read more
Crop Management
Corteva opening its doors to the world
Bullish Midwest weather story not over for corn and soybeans
Winnipeg, June 19 (MarketsFarm) – Corn and soybean futures at the Chicago Board of Trade may have run into some profit-taking resistance, but underlying concerns over wet fields and lost acres should keep the general uptrend in place heading through the summer. “I don’t think this weather story is anywhere near over,” said Preston Zacharias, […] Read more
Western Canadian wheat up in all classes
WINNIPEG – Wheat bids in Western Canada were up across the board for the week ended June 14. There were gains in Canadian Western Red Spring Wheat (CWRS), Canada Prairie Red Spring (CPRS) and Canadian Western Amber Durum (CWAD). Weakness in the Canadian dollar and gains in Kansas City and Chicago provided support. A decrease […] Read more
Soggy weekend welcomed in southern Manitoba
A much-needed rain fell on most of southern Manitoba on Father’s Day weekend. The rainfall was heaviest in the southwest and central regions of the province. For example, Boissevain, south of Brandon, received 40 millimetres June 15 and another 13 mm on Father’s Day, based on Manitoba Agriculture weather data. Other communities also recorded more […] Read more
U.S. farmers experimenting with hemp as China trade war drags on
HAYSVILLE, Kansas, June 14 (Reuters) – A growing number of U.S. farmers battered by low grain prices and the threat of a prolonged trade war with China are seeking salvation in a plant that until recently was illegal: hemp. A cousin of cannabis plants that produce marijuana, hemp is used in products ranging from food […] Read more
Shortage of rain slows crops
Crop development is one to three weeks behind normal across the Prairies. A satellite map of vegetative growth for the June 3-9 period is mostly all brown or dark brown over the entire region, indicating delayed development. “Although it has improved over last week, there is still a large portion of the Prairies that is […] Read more
Kochia and mustard challenge lentils
In a more normal market, there are plenty of good reasons to grow lentils. But there are also two good reasons not to: the evil twins kochia and wild mustard. Market problems or no market problems, producers are still growing lentils this year and weed control will still be the same yield-robbing problem it’s always […] Read more
Crop Boss puts the whole farm in one place, any place
ARDRIE, Alta. — Farmers have a number of software offerings on the table when it comes to operational management. However, few were built by a farmer, for a farmer or stretch from pre-seed planning through the receiving buyers’ payments and reconciliation of inventory. Larry Woolliams, who farms in the foothills north of Calgary, started Platinum […] Read more
Big capacity chaff collection cart Canadian style
With feed shortages looming, cattle producers are thinking about alternative feed sources, such as ammoniated slough grass and chaff. Chaff may have high nutritional value, but it’s a nuisance to handle. Eldon Obach intends to turn that negative perception around 180 degrees with his new high-volume Boomerang Chaff Cart. Last week he completed construction on […] Read more
VIDEO: Publicly traded Corteva focuses on agriculture
Former Dow-DuPont company sets out on its own in rough seas on the NYSE as a pure-play agricultural company
NEW YORK — The Fearless Girl’s unmoving, observant gaze fell upon a sign of the times, one bigger than the New York subway cars that rumbled underneath her bronze shoes. Last week Corteva Agriscience began trading its own path as a separate agriculture company, three years after the merger of Dow and DuPont, in what […] Read more
