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Ergot is best recognized in the field as black or dark purple sclerotia sticking out of a floret.

How a worldwide destructive cereal disease problem was solved in Alberta

In the story of ergot in wheat, barley and oats, the answer was simply 'copper'

By Ieuan Evans May 4, 2024

When I was first hired by Alberta Agriculture as a diagnostic plant pathologist, I was told I would be primarily responsible for barley, oat, wheat and canola diseases. I was also asked to head up the provincial control program for bacterial ring rot of potato (BRR). The BRR program, run in partnership with the federal […] Read more

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Markets

Feed grain weekly: Seeding well underway in Alberta

May 2, 2024

Feed grain bids in the Lethbridge area were finding some support in early May as farmers in the region focus their attention on spring seeding.

Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Wheat resumes fall after rain, soy up on technical trading

By Reuters May 1, 2024

Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) benchmark wheat futures fell on Wednesday after ticking up in the early session as much-needed rainfall reaches key wheat-growing areas of the U.S. Plains and southern Russia.

News

Railway strike vote dismays farmers

Grain Growers of Canada calls on railways, workers to resolve their differences

By Karen Briere May 1, 2024

Grain Growers of Canada is sounding the alarm over a potential strike by workers at both of the country’s major railways.

Markets

CBOT soybeans/corn rangebound, watching weather

May 1, 2024

Shifting weather forecasts have the potential to sway soybean and corn futures within sideways trading ranges over the next few weeks as farmers in the United States focus on spring seeding.

File photo of a CN locomotive. (Dave Bedard photo)

News, Reuters

Railway workers at CN, CPKC vote to strike, says union

By Reuters, Rod Nickel May 1, 2024

Thousands of railway workers in Canada at Canadian National Railway (CN) and Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) have voted overwhelmingly to strike as early as May 22, the union said today.

News

U.S. shuns free trade agreements

Senators rake the U.S. Trade Representative over the coals for the Biden administration’s trade policy agenda

May 1, 2024

Virginia Houston, director of government affairs with the American Soybean Association, says president Joe Biden’s administration feels FTAs pit U.S. domestic industries against one another. 

The Chicago Board of Trade building on May 28, 2018. (Harmantasdc/iStock Editorial/Getty Images)

Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Soybeans slide as soyoil plummets; wheat, corn sag

By Reuters April 30, 2024

U.S. soybean futures fell nearly two per cent on Tuesday as falling soyoil prices dragged down the soy complex amid weak demand, deliveries against the May futures contract and market uncertainty, traders said.

News

Prairie groups raise concerns about proposed Bunge-Viterra merger

Concentration of services at the Port of Vancouver, consolidation of crush capacity could cost producers billions, report says

By Geralyn Wichers April 29, 2024

A group of Prairie producer groups say the proposed merger between Bunge and Viterra is likely to cause substantial economic harm to farmers.

Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Wheat tumbles as Russian rain forecast spurs profit taking

By Reuters April 29, 2024

Chicago benchmark wheat futures WN24 fell more than two per cent on Monday, snapping a seven-session rally, as the crop outlook in top exporter Russia improved on forecasts for rain, analysts said.

Daily Network News

CBOT Weekly: USDA predicts declines in planting intentions

Protein Industries Canada funds Saskatchewan pulse ingredient project

February canola crush up from 2025, StatCan reports

Cereals

How a worldwide destructive cereal disease problem was solved in Alberta

Feed grain weekly: Seeding well underway in Alberta

U.S. grains: Wheat resumes fall after rain, soy up on technical trading

Railway strike vote dismays farmers

CBOT soybeans/corn rangebound, watching weather

Railway workers at CN, CPKC vote to strike, says union

U.S. shuns free trade agreements

U.S. grains: Soybeans slide as soyoil plummets; wheat, corn sag

Prairie groups raise concerns about proposed Bunge-Viterra merger

U.S. grains: Wheat tumbles as Russian rain forecast spurs profit taking

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