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ICE canola weekly outlook: Weak soybeans a “problem”

By Phil Franz-Warkentin October 16, 2024

The ICE Futures canola market backed away from nearby highs during the week ended Oct. 16, as losses in Chicago soybeans and soyoil weighed on values. With the canola harvest in its final stages across Western Canada, the market will likely settle in a sideways range while looking to outside influences for direction.

Crops, Markets

Saskatchewan crop report: Harvest nearly complete

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm October 10, 2024

Combining in Saskatchewan is virtually complete with the provincial report putting the harvest at 97 per cent finished overall. That's a gain of six points during the week ended Oct. 7, as parts of the province contended with rain delays.

Markets, News

ICE canola weekly outlook: Rising market hits resistance

By Phil Franz-Warkentin October 9, 2024

The ICE Futures canola market climbed to its highest levels in two months to start October, but ran into resistance and may now need an outside catalyst to continue the uptrend.

Canola, Crops

Back to blackleg

Lab-testing canola stem samples can help verify the disease and its specific race

By Jeff Melchior October 9, 2024

Everyone knows blackleg has been all over canola crops throughout Western Canada this year — but producers will still have to wait a bit to find out just how much the fungal disease has impacted Prairie crops. That’s why Clint Jurke, agronomy director with the Canola Council of Canada, is waiting until survey data is […] Read more

Crops

Manitoba crop report: Most of the harvest off the field

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm October 9, 2024

Combining in Manitoba advanced 12 points at 85 per cent complete for the week ended Oct. 7. While some crops made great amounts of progress, others did not. The largest gains were made in the province's soybean and flax harvests as they are up 41 points apiece at 70 and 61 per cent finished respectively.

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Canadian Grain Commission releases August export report

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm October 8, 2024

The Canadian Grain Commission's monthly report on grain exports for August 2024 - the first month of the 2024/25 marketing year.

Biologicals, Crops

Nitrogen-fixing biologicals fall short at field level

Challenges remain for products to achieve their hoped-for potential

By Robert Arnason October 7, 2024

Glacier FarmMedia — Dave Franzen is a straight shooter. If he doesn’t know the answer, the North Dakota State University soil scientist will admit it; if he does, he’ll tell you. As an example, in the summer of 2022 researchers from land grant universities across the north-central U.S. studied commercially available, biological nitrogen-fixing products to […] Read more

Adding biologicals to the soil doesn’t always work in the field, so a better approach could be altering the plant genome to work in synergy with soil microbes, a plant scientist and soil microbiology expert from the University of Kansas says.

Biologicals, Crops

Ways to improve the microbiome

Scientists consider how we could better support relationships between plants, soil and microbes

By Robert Arnason October 7, 2024

Glacier FarmMedia — The hyperbole around biologicals and what they can do for crop production sounds like 10 million crickets in a suburban backyard. There’s a lot of noise around biologicals, and for good reason. Soil contains millions of bacteria, fungi and other microbes that perform vital functions for plants. As a result, global agri-science […] Read more

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Alberta harvest well ahead of five-year average

Progress hits 85 per cent complete

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm October 4, 2024

Harvest progress in Alberta reached 85 per cent complete as of Oct. 1, progressing 11 points on the week, according to the latest provincial crop report.

Agriculture and Agri-Food Minister, Lawrence MacAulay. Photo: parl.gc.ca

Crops, News

Eastern Canadian oilseeds to receive funding

By Jonah Grignon October 4, 2024

Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food Lawrence MacAulay has announced funding up to C$4.3 million over five years to the Eastern Canada Oilseed Development Alliance (ECODA).

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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

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