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Manitoba’s canola growers have elected a new president and set up a new executive position of past president.

Manitoba crop organizations name new brass

Groups announce new board members and executives for 2024-25

By Grainews Staff March 12, 2024

Manitoba’s crop organizations have come out of meeting season with a number of new leaders and directors. The Manitoba Canola Growers Association has elected Warren Ellis of Wawanesa as its president for 2024-25, with Jackie Dudgeon-MacDonald of Darlingford acclaimed as vice-president and Nicolea Dow of Portage la Prairie acclaimed as secretary and named treasurer. “The […] Read more

Crops, Markets

Canadian canola acres to dip in 2024, wheat steady: StatCan

Lower prices, moisture concerns cited; moisture has since improved somewhat

By GFM Network News March 11, 2024

Canadian farmers intend to seed less canola in 2024 compared to the previous year, while overall wheat area should hold relatively steady, according to the latest Statistics Canada survey results released March 11.

Photo: SusanneSchulz/iStock/Getty Images

Markets, Reuters

Europe’s grain farms await rain break after damp winter

Weak prices for maize could encourage planting other crops

By Reuters, GFM Network News March 8, 2024

Grain growers in western Europe will need rain to ease this month to progress with spring planting, after a wet February maintained soggy field conditions that have already put the region on course for a smaller wheat harvest, analysts said.

Markets

Feed grain weekly outlook: Growers looking at the skies, prices

Barley prices should decline in later spring as growers sell, analyst says

By GFM Network News March 7, 2024

Despite recent weather bringing much-needed moisture into southern Alberta, dryness remains a concern in the region weeks before the start of seeding.

Crops, Features

Alberta crop commissions name leadership

Cereal, canola, pulse organizations welcome new board members

By Grainews Staff March 2, 2024

Meeting season on the Prairies brings new leadership to Alberta’s merged wheat and barley commissions, along with new board members for the province’s canola and pulse groups. Alberta Grains on Jan. 31 announced Tara Sawyer, who farms near Acme, as the chair for its inaugural board of directors. Sawyer previously served as Alberta Barley’s chair, […] Read more

Markets

Feed barley stuck in downtrend

Canada has imported 564,900 tonnes of U.S. corn since Sept. 1

By GFM Network News February 29, 2024

The Western Canadian feed market remains under pressure, with barley bids stuck in a steady downtrend.

Entry way to the Global seed vault in Svalbard. Photo: BDPhoto/iStock/Getty Images

General, Reuters

Arctic doomsday vault gets record batch of crop seeds

Twenty-three seed banks took part, nine of them for the first time

By Reuters, GFM Network News February 27, 2024

A frozen Arctic vault built to preserve global agricultural crops from extinction received seeds on Tuesday from the largest number of new contributors yet, a custodian of the remote facility said.

U of M professor Paul Bullock checks data from a portable weather station during development of the FHB risk assessment tool.

Cereals, Crops, Wheat & Chaff

Online fusarium management tool due out this spring

Preliminary tests of the online tool showed a good level of accuracy

By Jim Timlick February 19, 2024

A follow-up to a story we first brought you last July about a new online tool being developed by soil scientists at the University of Manitoba to make fusarium head blight (FHB) risk management in cereal crops easier for Prairie farmers. Paul Bullock, a senior scholar with the U of M’s department of soil science, […] Read more

Markets

Feed grain weekly: Buyers waiting longer to purchase more grain

U.S. corn shipments continue to put pressure on feed prices

By GFM Network News February 15, 2024

Buying activity for feed barley and feed wheat in Western Canada is moving slowly and prices continue to decline, according to Susanne Leclerc, owner of Market Master Ltd. in Edmonton.

Livestock, Markets

Feed grain weekly outlook: Ample supplies pushing down prices

Livestock feeders well covered with U.S. corn, pressuring prices

By GFM Network News February 8, 2024

Due to good supplies, prices for feed barley and wheat continued to slide back, according to Jim Beusekom of Market Place Commodities in Lethbridge, Alta.

GFM Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle rebound on technical buying

U.S. grains: Soybeans fall as rapid harvest overshadows China trade hopes

Good weather pushes Alberta harvest along

Barley

Manitoba crop organizations name new brass

Canadian canola acres to dip in 2024, wheat steady: StatCan

Europe’s grain farms await rain break after damp winter

Feed grain weekly outlook: Growers looking at the skies, prices

Alberta crop commissions name leadership

Feed barley stuck in downtrend

Arctic doomsday vault gets record batch of crop seeds

Online fusarium management tool due out this spring

Feed grain weekly: Buyers waiting longer to purchase more grain

Feed grain weekly outlook: Ample supplies pushing down prices

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