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Feed weekly outlook: Seasonal restrictions underpin grains

Coronavirus fallout being watched

By Phil Franz-Warkentin, GFM Network News March 14, 2020

MarketsFarm — Seasonal weight restrictions and spring road bans are providing some underlying support for feed grain bids in Western Canada, with the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak also being followed closely. “Winter weights are coming off, which is restricting the areas (feedlots) can pull from,” said Allen Pirness, of MarketPlace Commodities in Lethbridge, adding “there’s a […] Read more

It takes a bit of time to understand the supply and demand influences  on fed cattle.

Beef Cattle, Cattleman’s Corner, Markets

Back to Economics 101 for feeder cattle

Market Update with Jerry Klassen: Look for key market numbers that help determine prices

By Jerry Klassen March 13, 2020

I receive many inquiries about the cattle market throughout the year, and in many cases, I realize the producer does not have a good handle on the fundamentals for beef or cattle. Supply-and-demand projections appear to be a foreign subject for many. For example, I’ve received many calls asking why the cattle price has to […] Read more

Dallas Vert and daughter Tegan check on silage corn, which is an important part of the rotation.

News

Hope springs eternal for the 2020 crop year

If weather, markets and politics align even somewhat better, it should make for a good crop year

By Lee Hart March 12, 2020

Believe it or not, exactly the same early-spring conditions persist for the 2020 growing season on all western Canadian farms, according to several producers contacted for the March 10 Farmer Panel — that universal condition? The optimism that a good year lays ahead. None of the panel members exactly stated that things couldn’t get much […] Read more

The Canadian Grain Commission building on Main Street in Winnipeg. (File photo)

Crops

NFU sees red flags in CUSMA bill for grain growers

Bibeau urged to 'correct mistakes' in NAFTA 2.0-enabling legislation

By Glacier FarmMedia staff, GFM Network News March 8, 2020

The National Farmers Union is warning of sweeping changes to Canadian grain regulation it sees tucked into federal legislation meant to put through the successor deal to NAFTA. Bill C-4, the implementing legislation for the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA), passed second reading Feb. 6 and came back without amendment Feb. 27 from the Commons standing committee […] Read more

Barley, Crops, Markets, Weather

Feed weekly outlook: Soft demand weighs on prices

By GFM Network News March 6, 2020

MarketsFarm — Feed grain prices on the Prairies remain soft ahead of spring planting, due to quiet demand from feedlots. “Feedlots are full of grain right now,” Brandon Motz of CorNine Commodities at Lacombe, Alta. said, explaining that there’s currently a lot of grain in feeding pipelines. “Spring replacement into feedlots has been really slow.” […] Read more

Wheat leaf rust. (James Kolmer photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Crops, Machinery

Digital supercluster backs precision fungicide development

Project aims at wheat leaf rust, reducing pesticide load

By GFM Network News March 5, 2020

A West Coast ag tech company in the crop pest control business is setting its sights on wheat leaf rust, with support from one of Canada’s five research superclusters — but not the cluster you might expect. Out of the five federally-supported superclusters launched in early 2018, Protein Industries Canada has been most closely linked […] Read more

Columns, Crops

Aster yellow damage in 2012

The real extent of the crop yield damage done by aster yellows that summer

By Ieuan Evans March 4, 2020

Aster yellows is a minute phytoplasma bacterium that causes losses annually to a wide range of farm and horticultural crops. Most years, it is usual to see little in the way of aster yellows damage to canola, the most obviously affected crop. When you check canola fields in full bloom you can often pick out […] Read more

Ed Shaw, left and Scott Keller talk about diversification options at FarmTech in Edmonton.

Columns, Hart Attacks

Some good ol’ reminders about diversification

No crazy ideas about what to do with alfalfa and barley

By Lee Hart February 28, 2020

I must admit I haven’t heard much about farm “diversification” in recent years. And maybe that just means everyone these days is already diversified to the max so there is no need to talk about it. I think back 15 or 20 years and there were many actively promoted diversification schemes (and some of them […] Read more

As seeding season approaches, a new seed royalty pilot is getting off the ground, to some controversy. Photo: File

Cereals, Crops

Seed pilot project unveiled

By Allan Dawson, GFM Network News February 28, 2020

The new Seed Variety Use Agreement (SVUA) pilot project, unveiled in Winnipeg Feb. 25, will demonstrate the benefits of farmers paying breeders a royalty for seed saved for planting. But the Prairies’ five wheat and barley commissions have “significant concern” about the project, they said in a news release. The SVUA pilot is being organized […] Read more

Ruth and Steven Mansell’s farm, Emerald Downs, is near the ocean in Western Australia. They have four daughters.

Crops, Features

Meet your farming neighbours: Ruth and Stephen Mansell

Ruth and Stephen Mansell's grain farm is 30 km from the southern coast of Western Australia

By Dorothee Van Dijk February 27, 2020

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 the details, farmers are more alike […] Read more

GFM Network News

U.S. livestock: Feeder cattle hit contract highs on tight supply

U.S. grains: Soybeans tumble on doubts over U.S.-China trade progress

Alberta harvest wrapping up: report

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