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Crops, Markets

Flax production lowest since 1967, StatCan predicts

Returns on effort invested 'not attractive right now'

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MarketsFarm — After going into its least acres seeded since 1950, the 2023-24 Canadian flax crop is projected to be at its smallest in decades. Statistics Canada (StatCan) reported in its principal field crop estimates on Thursday that 267,900 tonnes of flaxseed are expected to be produced in this year’s harvest. The total not only […] Read more
Canola grown at a Resilient Rotations test site in Swift Current, Sask., didn’t perform well in 2021. Severe drought at the flowering stage resulted in low yields and economic returns.
Features

Rotations and the bottom line

Prairie researchers examine how different crop rotations affect net economic returns

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When it comes to on-farm decision making, the bottom line for most farmers is often, well, the bottom line. A 2019 survey of Manitoba farmers bore that out. The survey, conducted on behalf of the Manitoba Pulse and Soybean Growers, asked farmers which factors were important to them when planning their crop rotations. Yield potential […] Read more
Rich Farrell says more than 2,200 grain and biomass samples from more than 300 commercial farms were used in the design of the Prairie Nutrient Removal Calculator.
Crops, Features

New tool for Prairie farmers to help with fertility decisions

U of S researchers create a nutrient removal calculator specifically for producers in Western Canada

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A new online tool developed by researchers at the University of Saskatchewan could help farmers in Western Canada make more accurate on-farm fertilizer decisions. The Prairie Nutrient Removal Calculator was officially released in early May. It provides up-to-date nutrient removal rates for 15 different crops commonly grown on the Canadian Prairies. The calculator is the […] Read more
(Viterra.ca)
Crops, Markets

Increases seen in most July grain deliveries

Oats deliveries more than double, canola near double

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MarketsFarm — Most July deliveries of major grains in the country were higher than those from the same period a year ago, Statistics Canada reported Thursday. Total grain deliveries this past month tallied 4.056 million tonnes for a jump of 43.8 per cent over the previous July. All wheat came in at 2.186 million tonnes, […] Read more
(File photo by Lorraine Stevenson)
Canola, Cereals, Crops, Markets

Oilseed crush down, grain deliveries rise in June: StatCan

Canadian grain deliveries reached a three-month high in June

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 Marketsfarm – Statistics Canada (StatCan) released its June oilseed crush and grain delivery statistics, showing a small decline for the former, but a large gain for the latter from the month before.  Oilseed processors in Canada crushed 772,345 tonnes of canola last month, as well as 139,164 tonnes of soybeans for the month of June […] Read more
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Crops, Markets, Weather

Flax production to drop with fewer acres, dry conditions

'Prices are definitely going to be climbing'

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MarketsFarm — As with other crops on the Canadian Prairies, flax has been struggling with the hot and dry conditions across the region. That said, Scott Shiels of Grain Millers Canada at Yorkton, Sask. noted there’s very little doubt when it comes to flax prices increasing during the course of 2023. Presently, old-crop flax was […] Read more
(Viterra.ca)
Crops, Markets

April grain deliveries see increases all around

Barley deliveries up sharply

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MarketsFarm –– Producer deliveries of major grains last month were up nearly 40 per cent when compared to April 2022, according to Statistics Canada (StatCan). In April 2023 more than 3.44 million tonnes of grain were delivered, versus 2.46 million a year ago. The uptick in deliveries continued to demonstrate the sizeable harvest farmers reaped […] Read more
File photo of a federal office building in downtown Winnipeg. (Dave Bedard photo)
Crops, Markets

AAFC projecting canola ending stocks to tighten

New-crop wheat ending stocks figure boosted

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MarketsFarm — Canadian canola ending stocks in both the current marketing year and upcoming 2023-24 season will be tighter than earlier estimates, according to supply/demand projections from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) on Tuesday. Factoring in Statistics Canada’s latest acreage estimates and its data for stocks as of March 31 — figures both released in […] Read more
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Crops, Markets

Latest StatCan stocks report ‘least important of them all’

Wheat, canola numbers not expected to have significant impact on markets

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MarketsFarm — For MarketsFarm Pro analyst Mike Jubinville, there was little in the latest Statistics Canada (StatCan) grain stocks report that would budge the markets. “When I look at the run of StatCan reports that we get through the year, whether they’re acreage, production or ending stocks, this report in May is the least important […] Read more
(Dave Bedard photo)
Crops, Markets

Canada’s expected flax area smallest since 1950

Other commodity prices outperforming flax

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MarketsFarm — Blue flowery fields of flax will be fewer and farther between in Western Canada, according to Statistics Canada’s (StatCan) first survey-based seeding intentions report for 2023-24. In a report released late last month, StatCan projected only 689,000 acres of flaxseed to be planted this spring, an 11.6 per cent decrease from the year […] Read more

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