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How to make a sustainable crop protection plan

Q & A with an expert

By Jordan Peterson February 7, 2022

Q: How do I make a crop protection plan in the off-season? A: Developing a crop protection plan for the upcoming season in the late fall and over the winter can be a challenging process. Many in-season variables, both economic and agronomic, are difficult to account for in the off-season. However, with a season on […] Read more

ICE March 2022 canola (candlesticks, right column) with 20- and 50-day moving averages (yellow and dark green lines) and CBOT March 2022 soybeans (black line, left column). (Barchart)

Canola, Crops, Markets, Soybeans

ICE weekly outlook: Canola moving back in line with soybeans

By Phil Franz-Warkentin, GFM Network News February 3, 2022

MarketsFarm — ICE Futures canola contracts moved higher during the week ended Wednesday, but lagged the Chicago Board of Trade soy complex to the upside as the spreads between the two markets saw some readjustment. “If you had bought 100 tonnes of March canola on Dec. 21 you’d be up about $10 per tonne right […] Read more

Swelling herbicide-resistant weed populations have made weeds an even bigger problem.

Crops, Features

New herbicides for 2022

Options to deal with existing and emerging weed issues and the rising threat of herbicide resistance

By Mark Halsall February 2, 2022

As notorious yield robbers, weeds have always been one of farmers’ biggest headaches, and swelling herbicide-resistant weed populations have made weeds an even bigger problem. To help producers deal with existing and emerging weeds and the rising resistance threat, new herbicide solutions are released every year. Here’s a look at some new products coming to […] Read more

Registered for use on wheat, barley, oats, rye and triticale crops, Sphaerex is a Group 3 fungicide offering broad spectrum protection against a wide range of late-season cereal diseases.

Crops, Features

New fungicides for 2022

Tools to manage resistance development, ergot suppression and more

By Mark Halsall February 2, 2022

Protecting their crops is always top of mind for farmers. And crop protection companies are constantly developing new products and formulations to address disease challenges and other threats that arise every year. The following are some new fungicides producers in Western Canada can look for in 2022. BASF Sphaerex Registered for use on wheat, barley, […] Read more

Features, News

Rebate roundup 2022

These cash-back plans can help you get the most for your hard-earned input dollars

By Mark Halsall February 1, 2022

As we all know, farming can be an expensive business. No surprise then when opportunities arise to save some cash on crop inputs, almost any farmer is going to sit up and take notice. With this in mind (in alphabetical order), here’s our annual roundup of rebates available to western Canadian producers for the 2022 […] Read more

(Richardson International video screengrab via YouTube)

Canola, Crops

Richardson crush plant workers to vote on new offer

UFCW team endorses latest offer

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News January 29, 2022

Unionized workers at Richardson International’s oilseed crush plant at Lethbridge, Alta. will vote Tuesday and Wednesday on a new offer from the company after rejecting a previous proposal. United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 401 announced Tuesday (Jan. 25) its negotiating committee “fully endorses” the new offer after the company’s Richardson Oilseed division “enhanced […] Read more

ICE March 2022 canola (candlesticks, right column) with November 2022 canola (yellow line, left column). (Barchart)

Canola, Crops, Markets

ICE weekly outlook: Canola in stratosphere as old-, new-crop gaps narrows

By GFM Network News January 27, 2022

MarketsFarm — With so many influences affecting ICE Futures canola, one trader said it’s hard to figure just where the Canadian oilseed will go. Another trader, however, said the days of canola fetching more than $1,000 per tonne for an extended period of time are pretty much over. “It’s probably the craziest period we ever […] Read more

Columns, Crops

Les Henry: Soil moisture map for 2022

The soil reserve we’ve become accustomed to over the past decade is just not there

By Les Henry January 26, 2022

It is no surprise to readers that this year’s freeze-up soil moisture map required a lot of red ink to print. In the Allan Hills, where my Dundurn farm is located, folks can drive combines with a full tank of grain through sloughs that needed a canoe to cross a few years ago. You do […] Read more

Crops, Markets

Larger Canadian crops predicted in AAFC’s first 2022 outlook

By Phil Franz-Warkentin, GFM Network News January 24, 2022

MarketsFarm — A return to trend-line yields after the past year’s drought should lead to a significant increase in Canadian crop production in 2022, according to the first supply/demand estimates for the 2022-23 season from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC), released late Friday. Seeded area is expected to be up for wheat and the pulses, […] Read more

ICE March 2022 canola (candlesticks) with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages (yellow, green and black lines). (Barchart)

Canola, Crops, Markets

ICE weekly outlook: Choppy canola trade expected

Old-crop 'likely pushing the upper limits'

By Phil Franz-Warkentin, GFM Network News January 20, 2022

MarketsFarm — A speculative selloff weighed heavily on the ICE Futures canola market during the week ended Wednesday, before the selling subsided and prices regained much of their lost ground. “For prices this high, that’s pretty routine stuff,” said Ken Ball of PI Financial in Winnipeg on the $80 per tonne drop in the nearby […] Read more

GFM Network News

U.S. grains: Corn drops to 12-week low on report of massive stocks, record harvest

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures rise, hogs fall on WASDE

Resignation of Saskatchewan wheat breeder draws concern

Canola