Crop Management
WINNIPEG, Manitoba, April 24 (Reuters) – Canadian farmers intend to curb canola plantings this spring, Statistics Canada said on Thursday, surprising traders who expected a bigger area. Statscan said farmers would also taper back wheat sowings as expected, after a backlog in railway shipments left ample supplies of most crops from last year’s harvest. Statscan, […] Read more
Crop Management
Canadian farmers to plant less canola than expected
Try a less spicy soybean spread this summer: Maguire COLUMN
Gavin Maguire is a Reuters columnist, opinions expressed are his own CHICAGO, April 23 (Reuters) – Traditionally, the July-November soybean spread has been viewed as the quintessential old crop/new crop position to hold over the U.S. growing season as the vagaries of Midwest growing weather coupled with gyrations in global demand make for volatile prices. […] Read more
CME hog futures climb, live cattle fall before holiday
By Theopolis Waters CHICAGO, April 17 (Reuters) – Chicago Mercantile Exchange hog futures on Thursday finished higher on fund buying and short-covering ahead of the Easter holiday, traders said. CME will be closed on Friday in observance of the Good Friday holiday. Some investors bought the May and June contracts in anticipation of a post-Easter […] Read more
Producers look to wring out a profit in 2014
There have been significant shufflings and a few surprises since Manitoba Agriculture brought out the first draft of its 2014 cost of production spread sheet in January. The final version, which was just released, is more accurate than the first draft but does not paint a pretty picture for producers, says spread sheet engineer Roy […] Read more
Organic farming excellent way to mitigate climate change
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has released an update on the impacts of climate change. The storm is upon us. We can no longer speculate that maybe weather will get weird. Weird is here. Powerful weather events have increased. Polar ice is in decline. Wildfires are increasing. Global average temperature is rising. What does […] Read more
Remote truck, hopper gate openers convenient, versatile
ProTrap kits are available for single, double, triple, quad and B-train hoppers
Safety and convenience are two of the biggest factors prompting grain growers to install remote control gates on trucks and hopper trailers. Wireless remotes let the operator stand back out of the dust, said Shaun Gelsinger, a farmer and owner of Lakeshore Manufacturing in Holdfast, Sask., who sells the Shurco ProTrap opener for tandem trailers, […] Read moreWinter wheat trumps all other crops again
BRANDON — The expansion of corn and soybeans acres across the Prairies has received a lot of media attention in recent years, but the hype but not might be well-founded. “There’s been a lot of interest in those two crops here in western Manitoba and into Saskatchewan, but you have to look at the profitability […] Read more
Pest and disease control products can help protect yields
Last column we discussed inputs that build yield: varieties, cultivars and nutrients. This column deals with inputs that protect yield. A later herbicide application may result in optimum weed control, but earlier applications will achieve maximum yields. Previous research has found that canola in which herbicides were applied three weeks after crop emergence yielded more […] Read more
French parliament bans cultivation of GM corn
PARIS (Reuters) — France’s lower house of parliament adopted a law on Tuesday prohibiting the cultivation of any variety of genetically modified corn, saying it posed a risk to the environment. France adopted a decree last month to halt the planting of Monsanto’s insect-resistant MON810 corn, the only GM crop allowed for cultivation in the […] Read more
Glyphosate resistant kochia confirmed in Manitoba
Manitoba Agriculture has confirmed what weed scientists and farmers long suspected: glyphosate resistant kochia is present in Manitoba. The province said this morning that a weed survey, conducted last fall, found two cases of glyphosate resistant kochia in the Red River Valley. The survey team, which included Manitoba Agriculture, Agriculture Canada and the University of […] Read more
