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Freshly-sprayed pots and loaded petri dishes for the dose response work with wood vinegar and potassium nitrate. The compounds were placed with the seed in the petri dishes while -- for the potted work – seeds were deposited in the soil and sprayed at 200 litres per hectare.

Wake weeds up and let Mother Nature sort them out

Researcher finds value in wood vinegar in unique weed-killing process

By Jeff Melchior August 21, 2024

Glacier FarmMedia — It makes some intuitive sense: stimulate weeds’ growth at the wrong time of the year and let the winter frost kill them off. The challenge, says a scientist, is finding the right stimulant to wake them up. Shaun Sharpe, a weed researcher with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) in Saskatoon, may have […] Read more

Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Soybeans, wheat tick up on growing demand, weaker dollar

By Renee Hickman, Reuters August 20, 2024

Chicago soybean and wheat futures firmed on Tuesday as signs of growing demand appeared for both crops.

Crops, Markets

AAFC revise grain figures in August estimates

By Adam Peleshaty August 20, 2024

Days before Statistics Canada presents its monthly principal field crop estimates, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) released its estimates on Aug. 20, showing some changes to grains from the month before.

A grain train pulls up alongside a cargo vessel at the Alliance Grain Terminal at Vancouver on Oct. 6, 2011. (File photo: Reuters/Ben Nelms)

News, Reuters

North American agriculture groups ask US, Canadian governments to stop rail strike

By Promit Mukherjee, Reuters, Tom Polansek August 20, 2024

Nearly three dozen North American agriculture groups, in a joint letter to the U.S. and Canadian governments today, urged action to avoid a rail stoppage.

Markets, Reuters

South Dakota, Ohio corn crops found better than 3-year average, tour finds

By Julie Ingwersen, Karen Braun, Reuters August 20, 2024

Corn yield prospects in both Ohio and South Dakota were below last year's findings, but higher than the three-year average, scouts on an annual tour of top U.S. production states found on Monday.

Detail on the Chicago Board of Trade building. (Kevinstack22/iStock/Getty Images)

Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Soybeans rally as US crop tour begins

By Renee Hickman, Reuters August 19, 2024

Chicago soybean futures rallied on Monday, recovering from nearly four-year lows as traders waited to see if a major field tour this week will support expectations of bumper U.S. yields.

A freight train at Manchac, La., about 75 km east of Baton Rouge. (CN.ca)

News, Reuters

Canada-wide freight rail stoppage looms this week as two firms issue lockout notices

By Promit Mukherjee, Reuters August 19, 2024

Canada's freight rail network could come to a grinding halt this week, inflicting a huge economic toll after the country's two largest railroad operators on Sunday issued lockout notices to the Teamsters union that represents nearly 10,000 workers.

News

The rail lockout: How did we get here?

By Don Norman August 16, 2024

In the days since August 9, panic has begun setting in within the agricultural industry. The country has never seen a labour dispute that resulted in a strike or lockout from both of Canada’s rail companies. With harvest ramping up, a suspension of rail services would be disastrous for the industry.

Detail from the front of the CBOT building in Chicago. (Vito Palmisano/iStock/Getty Images)

Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Soybeans, corn fall on bumper yield forecasts; wheat steadies

By Heather Schlitz, Reuters August 16, 2024

Chicago Board of Trade soybeans and corn futures turned lower on Friday, with both also notching a third weekly loss, as farmers kept clearing out their grain bins ahead of a U.S. harvest that is forecast to see massive yields, traders said.

Crops

Combines making their rounds in Alberta

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm August 16, 2024

s the harvesting of fall crops in Alberta exceeded the halfway point, the combining of the province’s spring cereals was just beginning, according to the latest Alberta crop report.

Daily Network News

El Niño risk building, U.S. forecaster says; ENSO-neutral expected to continue to June

ICE weekly: War news driving canola markets

War is increasing food prices, insecurity say IMF, World Bank and UN food agency

Oilseeds

Wake weeds up and let Mother Nature sort them out

U.S. grains: Soybeans, wheat tick up on growing demand, weaker dollar

AAFC revise grain figures in August estimates

North American agriculture groups ask US, Canadian governments to stop rail strike

South Dakota, Ohio corn crops found better than 3-year average, tour finds

U.S. grains: Soybeans rally as US crop tour begins

Canada-wide freight rail stoppage looms this week as two firms issue lockout notices

The rail lockout: How did we get here?

U.S. grains: Soybeans, corn fall on bumper yield forecasts; wheat steadies

Combines making their rounds in Alberta

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