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Pinto beans. (Vergani_Fotografia/iStock/Getty Images)

Pulse weekly outlook: Edible beans on move

By GFM Network News March 19, 2019

MarketsFarm — Following a lengthy 2018 harvest, Manitoba’s edible bean farmers are optimistic about the 2019 growing season. According to an outlook report published in late December by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, pulse farmers are expected to plant approximately the same amount of acreage as seen in 2018. However, after strong yields in 2018, Manitoba […] Read more

Columns, Crops

Check your soil for herbicide residue

Learn how to conduct plant bioassays to detect potential herbicide residues in your soil

By Ieuan Evans March 18, 2019

Plant bioassays are a simple, inexpensive, accurate and direct method of determining if it is safe to grow crops on land previously treated with known herbicides or on cropland or compost with an unknown history of herbicide use. A bioassay can detect if herbicide or chemical residues are present in the soil or compost at […] Read more

A submerged bridge over the Red River in 2011. (IanChrisGraham/iStock/Getty Images)

Crops, Weather

Manitoba farmers unfazed by flood reports

By GFM Network News March 16, 2019

MarketsFarm — As experts forecast a spring flood to hit southern Manitoba, farmers in the Red River Valley won’t be caught off guard. Manitoba’s Emergency Measures Organization held flood preparedness seminars in Morris, Brandon, and Selkirk throughout the week of March 11. Topics covered included the forecast, flood outlook, preparedness and response and disaster financial […] Read more

Some of the crowd from the agriculture industry attending the Ag For Life event at the ATCO centre celebrating Agriculture Day in Canada.

Columns, Hart Attacks

Celebrating Agriculture Day with food

The important things you can learn at a free industry luncheon celebration

By Lee Hart March 13, 2019

Well that was a party and a half. There I was on Canada’s Agriculture Day in mid-February at a Calgary luncheon table with Alberta Beef Producers, Alberta Pulse Growers and Alberta Dairy Producers. Talk about shoving, pushing, name calling and aggression. It wasn’t over any philosophy of who had the best source of food protein… […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Peas

Pulse weekly outlook: Green pea premium to erode with acreage increase

By GFM Network News March 12, 2019

MarketsFarm — Green peas continue to command a sizeable premium over their yellow counterparts in Western Canada, which should see acreage shift this spring and an eventual rebalancing of the price spread. Green peas usually trade at a premium to yellow peas due to higher quality specs and concerns over bleaching, but the current price […] Read more

Research plots in 2017 looking at nitrogen and phosphorus interactions.

Crops, Pulses

Worried about pea disease? Try peaola

Intercropping peas and canola can minimize disease and lower production costs

By Melanie Epp March 12, 2019

With international pea processor Roquette opening a plant in Portage la Prairie, Man., in 2020, many growers will be thinking about taking advantage of the opportunity. Some, however, will be worried about one of the biggest challenges of growing peas: disease. There may be a solution, though. Researchers and experimental farmers are finding answers in […] Read more

Crops, Pulses, Soybeans

Pulse and soybean diseases to watch

Dry conditions in 2018 gave pulse growers a break, but there’s lots to watch for in 2019

By Angela Lovell March 11, 2019

While dry conditions during the 2018 growing season didn’t stop all instances of foliar, stem and root rot diseases across Western Canada, pulse growers didn’t see the high levels of pulse or soybean diseases associated with warm, moist conditions. But that doesn’t mean scouting won’t be necessary in 2019. The main diseases in pulse and […] Read more

U.S. President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump survey damage and are briefed by a FEMA official on March 8, 2019 in Beauregard, Alabama, where 23 people in Lee County were killed by tornadoes earlier in the week. (Photo: Reuters/Mike Theiler)

General, Markets, Reuters

Trump budget proposes steep subsidy cuts to U.S. farmers

By GFM Network News March 11, 2019

Washington | Reuters — U.S. President Donald Trump’s 2020 budget on Monday proposed a 15 per cent cut for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, calling its subsidies to farmers “overly generous” at a time when they are going through the worst crisis in decades because of depressed commodity prices and Trump’s trade tariffs. The Republican […] Read more

Crops, Machinery

Alberta input retail chain expands westward reach

By GFM Network News March 10, 2019

A pair of independent crop input retail outlets in west-central Alberta will be networking with seven others by month-end. Crop Management Network (CMN), a joint venture between an employee-owned network of retail outlets and La Coop federee’s Agrico Canada arm, announced Wednesday it has reached a deal to buy Performance Ag Group. Performance Ag, which […] Read more

This graphic shows salty patches on my Blackstrap farm. The main actor is the aquifer underneath the water runways.  A neighbour’s flowing well in a runway about a mile away is the evidence for the artesian condition.

Columns, Crops

Les Henry: How does ground get salty?

What causes salty ground, and a two-step process to fix the problem in your fields

By Les Henry March 6, 2019

After scribbling for this many years, it is no surprise that I’ll repeat the same song several times. Perhaps if I sing the song in a different tune it will resonate with more people. Salty ground is one such topic and this time I’ll try a new approach. A few years back this column predicted […] Read more

GFM Network News

Good progress made in Sask. harvest

Faster growth for farmland values in first half of 2025 says FCC

U.S. to support soybean farmers amid China lag, expect news Tuesday, Bessent says

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