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Award-winning Cascadia shows both flowers and forming snap peas. Green edible pods are a nice length, crunchy, sweet and juicy.

Sweet peas, snap peas and shelling peas

Plus, understanding acidity and alkalinity of soil

By Ted Meseyton July 14, 2022

Let’s plant some edible snap peas and shelling peas. Plus — a bit of this and a bit o’ that. Gardeners phone, others write and I always appreciate face-to-face meetings. Here’s one gardener’s experience with Epsom salt. Tells me he sprays tomato and pepper plants at blossoming time with a weak solution of Epsom salt […] Read more

Barley, Crops

Larger U.S. barley crop expected in 2022

By Phil Franz-Warkentin, GFM Network News July 14, 2022

MarketsFarm — Barley production in the U.S. is forecast to be up substantially in 2022, with early indications pointing to the largest crop in seven years. In its latest production estimates, the U.S. Department of Agriculture forecast the country’s 2022 barley crop at 3.8 million tonnes, which would be up from the 2.6 million tonnes […] Read more

Alberta cereal crops lead the way in terms of favourable development in the latest provincial crop report. Photo: File

Crops, Markets

Crop conditions in Alberta see remarkable turnaround

By GFM Network News June 30, 2022

MarketsFarm – As the heydays of summer approach, Alberta reported that its crops were in good shape. The crop report placed all crops in the province at 75 per cent good to excellent, slightly above the five-year average. The rains throughout June were credited with the turnaround, but overall growth and development remained somewhat behind […] Read more

Crops, Markets

Wet weather affecting acreage numbers: analysts

By GFM Network News June 30, 2022

MarketsFarm – With some parts of Western Canada experiencing delayed seeding due to wet weather, many analysts believe the conditions have caused a ripple effect on acreage totals for the 2022-23 marketing year. Statistics Canada (StatCan) will release its second survey-based acreage report for the 2022-23 marketing year on July 5. Traders and analysts are […] Read more

Crops

Alberta crops improve with rain

By GFM Network News June 24, 2022

MarketsFarm – Drought conditions that devastated crops in Alberta last year and were poised to do the same this year are becoming something in the past, according to the province’s latest crop report. Recent rainfall has been wiping out any notion of drought in 2022 as soil moisture conditions continued to improve across the province. […] Read more

Tim Nerbas of NRG Farms in northwest Saskatchewan, says he usually does a bit of both pre- and post-harvest
treatments on about 4,000 acres of crops, which include wheat, oats, barley, canola, flax and faba beans.

Crops, Features

The best fit for pre- or post-harvest treatments

With erratic growing season conditions producers need to be flexible with fall weed control plans

By Lee Hart June 10, 2022

Farmers Owen Orsak and Tim Nerbas hadn’t got the 2022 crop in the ground yet when they were asked in early May about their fall weed control plans, but the Manitoba and Saskatchewan producers, respectively, say they will apply desiccation and weed control measures on their farms this year depending on weed growth and harvest […] Read more

The photo above shows the disease bacterial leaf streak on barley. On the leaf surface is bacterial “oozing.” The photo was taken last year in early August at Olds College Field Crop Development Centre in Alberta.

Cereals, Crops

Cereal crop disease outlook

An update on rust risks, FHB management and bacterial leaf streak threat

By Madeleine Baerg May 11, 2022

Although last year’s brutally hot and dry conditions across much of the Prairies made for very difficult cereal crop production, they carried one upside — disease pressure was notably low in almost all fields. Which diseases steal cereal crops’ yields and compromise their quality this year, and by how much, will depend heavily on weather […] Read more

Fusarium head blight in cereals (seen here) or sclerotinia in canola are monocyclic, meaning that they infect a host and produce spores just once in a season.

Cereals, Crops

Will 2021’s heat and drought conditions affect this year’s disease incidence?

By Madeleine Baerg May 11, 2022

Last season’s low disease incidence may decrease disease pressure, at least at the beginning of the season. “In much of the Prairies, we’ve had dry conditions for a few years in a row. Generally speaking, dry conditions provide poor environments for pathogens, so going into 2022, there may be a reduced buildup of pathogen inoculum […] Read more

Yellow peas. (Victoria Popova/iStock/Getty Images)

Crops, Markets, Peas, Weather

Pulse weekly outlook: Late Prairie seeding may sway acres out of peas

By Phil Franz-Warkentin, GFM Network News May 11, 2022

MarketsFarm — Excessive moisture in the eastern Canadian Prairies this spring may cut into pea acres in the region, as producers like to get the crop in the ground early. Canadian farmers intended to plant 3.55 million acres of peas for the 2022-23 crop year, according to a report from Statistics Canada. That would be […] Read more

The USDA building in Washington, D.C. (Art Wager/iStock/Getty Images)

Crops, Markets

USDA attache predicts large 2022-23 grain crops for Canada

By GFM Network News May 2, 2022

MarketsFarm — Canada is expected to see a 30 per cent increase in grain production in 2022-23, according to estimates from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service post in Ottawa. Expectations for improved yields for Prairie grain crops after the 2021-22 drought accounted for much of the projected increase, although USDA also cautioned […] Read more

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Oats

Sweet peas, snap peas and shelling peas

Larger U.S. barley crop expected in 2022

Crop conditions in Alberta see remarkable turnaround

Wet weather affecting acreage numbers: analysts

Alberta crops improve with rain

The best fit for pre- or post-harvest treatments

Cereal crop disease outlook

Will 2021’s heat and drought conditions affect this year’s disease incidence?

Pulse weekly outlook: Late Prairie seeding may sway acres out of peas

USDA attache predicts large 2022-23 grain crops for Canada

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