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More than one way to fight fusarium head blight

An integrated approach, using multiple best practices, can offer better chances of success

By Mark Halsall February 15, 2025

Fusarium head blight has been a stubborn threat to cereal crops in Western Canada since the 1990s. Some years are worse than others, but when the conditions favour this fungal pathogen, fusarium can cause significant losses in yield and crop quality in wheat, barley, oats and corn. The two primary weapons against fusarium — fungicides […] Read more

Barley, Canola, Cereals, Corn, Lentils, Markets, News, Oats, Peas, Pulses, Soybeans, Spring Wheat, Winter Wheat

Canola stocks shrink, wheat nudges up

StatCan issues stock report

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm February 7, 2025

With a decline of 19.2 per cent, total canola stocks in Canada dropped from a year ago, while all wheat stocks bumped up 0.9 per cent, Statistics Canada reported on Feb. 7.

File photo of the Canada-U.S. border crossing connecting Sarnia, Ont. and Port Huron, Michigan. (Eyfoto/iStock/Getty Images)

News, Reuters

Facing Trump tariffs on piglets and crops, Canadian farmers revise sales plans

By Ed White, Reuters January 31, 2025

Canadian farmers are renegotiating livestock contracts with U.S. buyers and finding local markets for crops they previously planned to sell south of the border to minimize the economic hit from potential new U.S. tariffs.

Barley, Canola, Cereals, Markets, Oats, Spring Wheat, Winter Wheat

Upswings in most December grain deliveries

Declines in rye, flax

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm January 29, 2025

Deliveries of major grains increased from December to December, according to data released by Statistics Canada on Jan. 29.

Columns, Crops, Practical Tips

Let’s close the circuit on what leads to ergot

Practical Research: The solution to the problem for wheat, barley and oat growers is very well documented

By Ieuan Evans January 29, 2025

“Ergot risk threatens Man., less severe elsewhere.” This title appeared in The Western Producer, Aug. 22, 2024. Let’s put that headline in proper perspective. For some reason there are agricultural specialists on the Canadian Prairies and in some states who cannot face actual facts. When you have specialists who refer to wheat as a self-pollinated […] Read more

Barley, Canola, Cereals, Corn, Crops, News, Oats, Pulses, Soybeans, Spring Wheat

AAFC forecasts more Canadian wheat acres, less canola in 2025

By Phil Franz-Warkentin January 20, 2025

Canadian farmers will plant more wheat and coarse grains in 2025 at the expense of oilseeds, according to the first supply/demand projections for the 2025/26 marketing year from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, released Jan. 20.

Barley, Canola, Cereals, Corn, Lentils, Markets, News, Oats, Peas, Pulses, Soybeans, Spring Wheat, Winter Wheat

Bunge-Viterra deal ‘effectively ends competition’ says NFU

Feds’ conditions not near enough to alleviate concerns

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm January 17, 2025

The National Farmers Union denounced the approval of the Bunge-Viterra merger in a statement released on Jan. 17. The NFU said the multi-billion dollar deal “effectively ends competition in Canada’s agricultural commodity sector,” as it creates the world’s largest agricultural commodity trader, and it will control 40 per cent of the Canadian grain market.

Cereals Production Guide, Crops, Oats

Cutting N on oats can pay off, if it’s drier

Potential gain in net revenue must be weighed against opportunity cost

By Robert Arnason January 16, 2025

Glacier FarmMedia — It’s possible to make more money from oats by reducing fertilizer rates, according to research done at four sites in Saskatchewan. But like most things in farming, a lot depends on the weather. Less nitrogen equalled more profits in trials done in 2023 because it was a dry growing season. “When you […] Read more

Crops, General, News, Oats

Crop Production Show 2025: Oat beers having a moment

By Delaney Seiferling January 16, 2025

Market demand and unique grain traits make oats an increasingly attractive ingredient for craft beers, says Sask. brewer at the 2025 Crop Production Show in Saskatoon

“I’ll be quite surprised if he (U.S. president-elect Donald Trump) doesn’t implement the tariffs on his first day,” said oat market analyst Randy Strychar at the SaskOats 2025 annual general meeting held today during Crop Week in Saskatoon. | File photo

Markets, News, Oats

Crop Production Show 2025: U.S. tariffs could impact Canadian oat market as early as next week

By Delaney Seiferling January 16, 2025

Producers shouldn't panic just yet, says oat market analyst at the 2025 Crop Production show

GFM Network News

U.S. grains: Chicago grain prices fall amid profit-taking and dollar rebound

U.S. livestock: Cattle fall back as inventory hits 75-year low

Farm family income gains driven by off-farm earnings: StatCan

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