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It’s not too late to creep-feed spring calves

Better Bunks and Pastures: Analysis says this could be a highly profitable year to creep-feed calves

By Peter Vitti September 23, 2024

A friend of mine operates a 300-cow-calf operation. This year, he put out his creep feeders during the end of July and his March-born calves really haven’t eaten much creep-feed in the last month. That’s because his pastures are still lush and his cows are milking well. He joked that he is ready to lock […] Read more

“There is still a pile of corn going into southern Alberta,” says one trader at Eagle Commodities Ltd. Photo: MaksymTopchyi/iStock/Getty Images

Barley, Corn, Markets

Canadian purchases of U.S. corn off to slow start

By Phil Franz-Warkentin September 19, 2024

Canadian purchases of corn from the United States are off to a slow start in the 2024-25 marketing year, with ample old crop barley supplies likely limiting demand.

The harvest in Saskatchewan advanced 13 points for the week ended Sept. 16, at 74 per cent complete, despite rain in some parts of the province. Photo: Thinkstock

Crops, Markets

Saskatchewan crop report: Combining at about three-quarters mark

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm September 19, 2024

The harvest in Saskatchewan advanced 13 points for the week ended Sept. 16, at 74 per cent complete, despite rain in some parts of the province. The pace of combining was eight points behind this time last year, but 11 ahead of the five-year average.

Wheat stocks in major exporting nations are not considered burdensome and are rather seen to have become relatively tight.

Features, Markets

Markets continue to push lower

Risk premiums created by Russia's invasion of Ukraine have evaporated

By Bruce Burnett September 18, 2024

Market sentiment remains bearish for most agricultural commodities, including the major crops grown in Western Canada. Prices have been declining in most markets since the recent highs were set at the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Markets have gradually adjusted to the news coming from the conflict and has effectively removed […] Read more

Crops, News

Manitoba harvest passes halfway mark: report

By Phil Franz-Warkentin September 18, 2024

Harvest operations in Manitoba passed the halfway mark during the week ended Sept. 17, with wide ranging yields in the latest provincial crop report.

The latest model-based production estimates from Statistics Canada shows downward revisions in both canola and wheat production from the August report. Photo: Thinkstock

Markets

StatCan revises canola production lower

By Phil Franz-Warkentin September 16, 2024

Hot and dry weather saw crop conditions decline across much of Western Canada over the past month, with the latest model-based production estimates from Statistics Canada showing downward revisions in both canola and wheat production from the August report.

Crops, Markets, Pulses

Alberta weekly crop report: Harvest yields are coming in lighter than expected

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm September 13, 2024

Combining of major crops in Alberta progressed 23 points during the week ended Sept. 10, reaching 54 per cent, according to the province's latest weekly crop report. While dry weather helped to advance the harvest, crop yields were not meeting expectations.

Crops, News

Saskatchewan crop report: Hot, dry conditions help harvest

By Adam Peleshaty September 12, 2024

Saskatchewan’s harvest was more than halfway finished at 61 per cent complete, although not as much as the 68 per cent complete from one year ago. The figure was higher than the 42 per cent reported last week, the five-year average of 50 per cent and the 10-year average of 46 per cent. The southwest region was the nearest to completion at 85 per cent while the northeast region’s harvest was only at 34 per cent.

Livestock, Markets

Feed Grains Weekly: Prices moving higher, but maybe not much more says broker

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm September 12, 2024

With Alberta farmers presently reluctant to sell their barley and wheat for feed, cash prices have been on the upswing, according to Darcy Haley, vice-president Ag Value Brokers in Lethbridge.

Combining of spring cereals provincewide was approaching or near the three-quarters done mark, per the latest crop report from the provincial agriculture department on Sept. 10. Photo: File

Crops, Weather

Manitoba harvest advances with co-operative weather

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm September 11, 2024

Harvesting in Manitoba reached 40 per cent complete according to the latest crop report from the provincial agriculture department on Sept. 10. The central region was furthest along a 51 per cent finished, followed by the eastern region at 47 per cent done, the southwest at 38 per cent, the Interlake at 34 per cent and the northwest at 25 per cent.

GFM Network News

Corteva to split seeds, pesticide units into separate listed companies

Prairie spring wheat bids soften with U.S. futures

World food prices dip as falls in sugar and dairy offset new high for meat

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