Topsoil conditions are the best they have been in for four or five years in many the traditional mustard growing areas of Saskatchewan and Alberta.
Gopher control enters the post-strychnine era
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James Tansey, Saskatchewan’s insect and vertebrate pest management specialist, said all the registered products in the study worked, but based on the data, he recommended those containing zinc phosphide.
Canola’s future hangs on U.S. ruling
On June 14 the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is scheduled to make its final rule establishing Renewable Fuel Standard volumes for 2023, 2024 and 2025.
Crushers will be fixated on the EPA’s June 14 announcement.
Mandatory fertilizer target rejected
Witnesses told the committee that even if the target to reduce emissions from fertilizer use by 30 percent from 2020 levels by 2030 is voluntary, it is another demand on producers at a time of uncertainty.
Recent snow not expected to hit grasshoppers
Soil likely wasn’t warm enough for the insects to be active when a widespread storm blanketed much of the Prairies
The weather conditions over the next four to six weeks will ultimately determine grasshopper populations said Prairie Pest Monitoring Network scientist and Agriculture Canada entomology expert Meghan Vankosky.
Grain shippers call for expansion of interswitching pilot
Coalition argues that the 18-month initiative planned by Ottawa needs to be broader and last for a longer period of time
A campaign called Flip the Switch has launched at interswitching.ca to encourage producers and shippers to contact their members of Parliament to voice their support.
Loss of strychnine a long time coming
Pesticide was deregistered from 1992-2001, and the process to ban the product began again in 2020 after a 2018 review
The pesticide, registered in 1928, had already been deregistered from 1992 to 2001 over environmental concerns and a 2018 review found the same issues with the potential for secondary poisoning.
How to encourage gopher predators
Ferruginous hawks are one of three three species on the Prairies that feed on ground squirrels, or gophers. The other two are Swainson’s hawks and prairie falcons.
Canada fills Ukrainian grain gap
Exporters rediscover customers in Asia for Canadian wheat as Ukraine’s grain exports are reduced by ‘difficult logistics’
Ukraine exported 8.4 million tonnes of wheat through the first half of 2022-23 versus 15.9 million tonnes for the same period one year ago, according to an analysis by Christina Serebryakova, head of analytics at Atria Brokers.
StatCan seeding intentions survey called out-of-date
Market analysts say conducting the survey four months ago in the middle of winter reduced its usefulness to the industry
Statistics Canada is coming under heavy criticism for its new methodology of gauging farmers’ seeding intentions. The agency surveyed 9,500 farmers between Dec. 12, 2022, and Jan. 14, 2023. “This was the first time seeding intentions were collected in December. Traditionally, seeding intentions have been collected in March,” it said in the April 26 report. […] Read more
