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Pre-booked corn pushing barley and wheat out of Alberta feedlots

By GFM Network News November 8, 2018

CNS Canada – Cattle in “feedlot alley” in Lethbridge, Alta., won’t be seeing corn leave their diets any time soon, according to one feed grain buyer. “The marketplace booked up a fair bit of corn in advance of it, so through September, December and even out into March. So that’s all been done, that corn […] Read more

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Fair weather welcome for harvest wrap-up in Sask.

By MarketsFarm Team, GFM Network News November 8, 2018

CNS Canada – Thanks to good weather during the last half of October 99 per cent of Saskatchewan’s crop has been harvested according to Saskatchewan Agriculture’s final Crop Report of 2018. However, snow and rain in early November has delayed the harvest of the remaining crops such as flax and oats, but producers hope to […] Read more

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Alberta harvest nearing completion

By MarketsFarm Team, GFM Network News November 2, 2018

CNS Canada – Alberta farmers made significant harvest progress in late-October, with nearly 95 per cent of crops off the field as of Oct. 30, according to the final crop report of the season from Alberta Agriculture. On a crop-by-crop basis, spring wheat was 96.1 per cent harvested, durum 95.4 per cent, barley 95.6 per […] Read more

C4 plants have a process that allows them to use CO2 down to a much lower level than C3 plants.

Crops, Features

Untangling C3 and C4 plants

What is the difference between these two plant types,  and how does it affect the Prairies?

By Angela Lovell November 1, 2018

Recent research articles have reported that scientists are making progress converting C3 plants to C4 plants. Other articles say that C3 plants will thrive with more CO2 in the air. What’s the difference between C3 and C4 plants? What does this mean for Western Canadian agriculture? C3 and C4 plants Plants in Western Canada — […] Read more

Cereals, Crops, Markets

Prairie feed grains drying out, influx of U.S. corn continues

By GFM Network News November 1, 2018

CNS Canada – While plenty of wheat and barley are being downgraded to feed quality in Western Canada, as harvest nears the end crops are starting to come off dry. “In general, the sunshine and weather has progressed us fairly quickly. Grain toward the end was even coming off dry, so everyone seems content that […] Read more

Soybeans getting one step closer to the bin in Western Manitoba in October 2018. Photo: Greg Berg

Crops, Weather

Weather weighed on 2018 Manitoba crop year

By GFM Network News October 30, 2018

CNS Canada – Conditions were variable across Manitoba throughout the 2018 growing season, according to the provincial crop report released Oct. 29. As of Oct. 29, provincially 97 per cent of the total crop was harvested. Crops completely finished include winter wheat, fall rye, field pea and dry bean. The spring wheat, barley, oat and […] Read more

Jay and Jennifer Bruggencate and Mike and Kelly Sulzle and their families farm together at Vector Grain near Lacombe, Alta., as a joint venture.

Crops, Features

Meet your farming neighbours: The Bruggencates and Sulzles

This is the story of a joint venture between  the Bruggencates and the Sulzles

By Julienne Isaacs October 26, 2018

Every farm has its own story. No two farms (or farmers) are exactly alike. Everyone got started in a different way, and every farm has a different combination of family and hired staff who make the decisions and keep things running. But, in general, even after you consider all of the details, farmers are more […] Read more

Crops, Weather

Alberta farmers make large harvest progress

By GFM Network News October 26, 2018

CNS Canada – After weeks of no harvest progress, farmers in Alberta were able to get back into the fields and make significant harvest progress over the last week, according to the provincial crop report released Oct. 26. The Alberta harvest is now 78 per cent completed as of Tuesday, Oct.23, jumping up 28 per […] Read more

Crops, Reuters

Drought to cut east Australia crop output in half from 20-year average

By GFM Network News October 26, 2018

Melbourne | Reuters – Drought is expected to cut eastern Australia’s crop production this year to less than half the average over the past 20 years, with New South Wales to be worst hit, the country’s agricultural commodities forecaster said on Friday. While some regions are facing the worst conditions in memory, the Australian Bureau […] Read more

Crops, News, Weather

Sask. harvest progress hits 92 per cent

Saskatchewan Crop Report for the week ending October 22

By Saskatchewan Agriculture October 25, 2018

After multiple weeks of delay, many producers were able to return to the field and complete harvest. Thanks to warm and dry weather last week, producers now have 92 per cent of the 2018 crop harvested, according to Saskatchewan Agriculture’s weekly Crop Report. This is up from 82 per cent last week, but slightly behind […] Read more

GFM Network News

Prairie forecast: Active pattern continues with mostly-dry west, wet start for east

Grain trader Bunge lowers 2025 profit forecast after closing Viterra deal

Trump mulls ending some trade ties with China, including in relation to cooking oil

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