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Pulse weekly outlook: Most Canadian pulse acres to decline

By GFM Network News April 30, 2019

Corrected, May 1 — MarketsFarm — Canadian farmers have been projected to plant fewer acres of pulses, according to Statistics Canada. “Keeping in mind this is the seeding intentions report based on a survey of growers from the beginning of March. It’s as current as the day it was collected,” said Carl Potts, executive director […] Read more

Devin Dreeshen is sworn in on April 30, 2019 as Alberta’s agriculture minister; Premier Jason Kenney looks on. (Video screengrab from Government of Alberta via YouTube)

Crops, Livestock

Alberta UCP’s trade critic named ag minister

By GFM Network News April 30, 2019

Alberta’s new premier has tapped a not-quite-rookie MLA with experience in farming, farm policy and U.S. politics as his new minister of agriculture and forestry. Jason Kenney, sworn in Tuesday as premier, named Devin Dreeshen, the MLA for Innisfail-Sylvan Lake since last July, to handle the ag and forestry file. Dreeshen came to the UCP’s […] Read more

Aphanomyces is not currently widespread in Manitoba, but pea growers do need to be concerned about it in the long term.

Crops, Features, Pulses

Two diseases to watch for in peas

Ascochyta blight and aphanomyces root rot occur in dry years as well as wet 

By Melanie Epp April 30, 2019

If you’re growing peas for the first time this year, of if you haven’t grown them in a while, you’ll want to watch for these two diseases in your fields: ascochyta blight and aphanomyces root rot. The disease that is perhaps most concerning, most visible and most likely to cause yield loss is ascochyta, or […] Read more

Bayer CEO Werner Baumann speaks during the company’s annual general shareholders’ meeting in Bonn, Germany on April 26, 2019. (Photo: Reuters/Wolfgang Rattay)

Crops, Reuters

Investors call for reprieve for Bayer bosses after AGM rebuke

By GFM Network News April 29, 2019

Frankfurt | Reuters — Three of Bayer’s largest German investors said the drugmaker’s embattled management needed to stay at the helm to avoid further upheaval, despite their unease over a share price slump in the wake of the US$63 billion Monsanto takeover. The backing for CEO Werner Baumann comes after an unprecedented rebuke at the […] Read more

Crops, Reuters

Bayer shareholders vent ire over Monsanto-linked stock rout

By GFM Network News April 26, 2019

Bonn | Reuters — Bayer shareholders vented their anger over its stock price slump on Friday as litigation risks mount from the German drugmaker’s US$63 billion takeover of seed and chemical firm Monsanto. Several large investors said they will not support aspirin invesotr Bayer’s management in a key vote scheduled for the end of its […] Read more

Columns, Crops

Les Henry: Mourning the loss of the International Plant Nutrition Institute

Information will be lost with the end of this valuable organization

By Les Henry April 25, 2019

To my great disappointment I recently learned of the impending demise of the International Plant Nutrition Institute (IPNI), an organization funded by primary producers of fertilizer products. IPNI was involved in a wide array of activities to further the efficient and effective use of fertilizers to keep farms profitable and to feed the people of […] Read more

A+W’s Beyond Meat Burger. (A+W/CNW Group)

Crops, Markets, Pulses, Reuters

Tyson sells stake in Beyond Meat

By Reuters, GFM Network News April 24, 2019

Reuters — Tyson Foods said on Wednesday it had sold its 6.5 per cent stake in vegan burger maker Beyond Meat, as the No. 1 U.S. meat processor looks to develop its own line of alternative protein products. The exit comes against the backdrop of rising tensions between the two companies after Tyson CEO Noel […] Read more

In certain rows, Cory’s lentil plants were stunted and the leaves of those plants were turning yellow and shriveling. Some plants in the affected rows were already dead.

Crops, Features, Pulses

Crop advisor casebook: Why are rows of these lentils yellowing and stunted?

A Crop Advisor's Solution from the April 23, 2019 issue of Grainews

By Chad Scott April 24, 2019

Cory owns a 4,000-acre grain farm near Cupar, Sask. His crop rotation consists of lentils, wheat, durum and canola. It was around the middle of June when I received a call from Cory, who was concerned about his lentil crop after he noticed that in certain rows the plants were stunted and the leaves of […] Read more

Statistics Canada’s March preliminary estimates of principal field crop areas, including 2019 acreage forecast released April 24, 2019. (Statcan.gc.ca)

Crops, Markets, Reuters, Weather

Canadian farmers to reduce canola plantings by seven per cent

By Rod Nickel, GFM Network News April 24, 2019

Winnipeg | Reuters — Canadian farmers intend to plant seven per cent fewer acres of canola this spring compared with a year earlier, even less than expected by analysts and traders, as a dispute with China hampers demand, a government report showed on Wednesday. China and Canada are locked in a diplomatic and trade dispute […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Pulses

Pulse weekly outlook: Fababean acres set to increase

By GFM Network News April 23, 2019

MarketsFarm — Unpredictable weather overseas resulted in robust fababean prices during 2018’s harvest, and Canadian producers expect these prices to hold throughout the 2019 growing season. “For the growers that managed to get fababeans off their field, I think they were probably quite happy with the markets in 2018,” said Leanne Fischbuch, president of Alberta […] Read more

Media reports suggest U.S. dairy access to Canada a topic of conversation in Ottawa

U.S. livestock: Cattle choppy amid weak cash market, tight supply

China’s canola, soybeans imports to drop one million tonnes each

GFM Network News