MANITOBA SOUTHWEST Precipitation was 15 to 40 millimetres, and lodging is visible in some fields. Winter wheat harvest is underway with 65 bushel per acre yields. Some areas are spraying to control diamondback moths and bertha armyworms. NORTHWEST Rainfall was five to 35 mm, and crops and soil moisture conditions are rated adequate to fair. […] Read more
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ICE Canada canola futures rise, halt skid
WINNIPEG (Reuters) — ICE Canada canola futures rose on Thursday and halted a five-day skid, following U.S. soybeans and soy oil higher. Strong Chinese demand and the fact that favorable rains missed some U.S. Midwest growing regions, buoyed soybeans, spilling over support to fellow oilseed canola. The light trading volume kept canola technical sellers on […] Read more
Ontario research aims to make canola profitable
Ontario growers now have a Canola Learning Centre to help them overcome some of the problems with growing profitable canola. Canola is the largest crop grown in Canada, overtaking wheat this year, but in Ontario acres have been decreasing. Canola acres have declined by about a third in the past five years to 40,000 acres. […] Read more
Heat LQ approved for exportable crops
Harvesting cereals and gaining the upper hand on weeds and Roundup Ready volunteers gets easier with a pre-harvest application of herbicide. However, it can be a waiting game for herbicide-tolerant weeds and those that are slow to burn down. Producers looking for another pre-harvest tool recently received good news when the CODEX Alimentarius Commission gave […] Read more
Irrigation makes the difference
Crops in southern Alberta are a study in contrasts this year. Those farming some of the region’s 1.4 million irrigated acres are looking at average yields. Those farming dry land acres are harvesting fields with much lower yields due to low rainfall since May. “I’m expecting 90 percent to 105 percent of average,” crop adviser […] Read more
Use caution with pre-harvest applications
Saskatchewan’s provincial wheat commission is reminding farmers to follow label directions when applying desiccants or weed control products to standing crops this fall. It’s not a new message, says SaskWheat chair Bill Gehl, but it’s one that needs to be repeated to ensure producers are using the products correctly and not negatively affecting the quality […] Read more
Oat benefits easy to swallow
There is no magic recipe to successfully market a product, says George Barreras. “What works for your neighbour doesn’t work for you most of the times.… You have to persevere. You have to be ready for failure. But there’s no formula. Otherwise, all companies would succeed, or all companies would fail if there was a […] Read more
CRA announces list of regions eligible for livestock tax deferral
The final list of designated regions for 2016 under the Livestock Tax Deferral Provision has been authorized because of drought conditions in British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario, Quebec and Nova Scotia. The provision allows producers in designated drought regions who are facing feed shortages to defer a portion of their sale proceeds of breeding livestock to […] Read more
More PED found in Manitoba
After a two-week lull in new cases of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus in Manitoba, another barn tested positive Aug. 9 and brought the total number of infected premises to 61. Dr. Glen Duizer, Manitoba’s chief veterinarian, said the new case wasn’t unexpected, and efforts continue to contain further spread of the virus and eliminate it […] Read more
Drought-proof canola remains elusive
Modern canola hybrids yield more, are resistant to diseases such as clubroot and blackleg and their pods are less likely to shatter when straight combined. However, the specific trait that many canola growers needed this year does not exist: tolerance for heat and drought. It’s possible, thanks to better genetics, that the latest canola hybrids […] Read more
