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Sacramento-based Origin Materials in March started working with bottled-water firms Nestle Waters and Danone on development of plastic bottles made from biomass feedstocks. (Nestle-WatersNA.com)

Bioprocessor coming to Sarnia

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News June 15, 2017

Bioindustrial Innovation Canada (BIC) has invested in California bio-based products company Origin Materials. Origin Materials will be building its first commercial-scale demonstration facility in Sarnia, Ont. by late next year. It will be using bio-based feedstocks such as crops and biomass to make new polymers, surfactants and carbon blacks, which are used as fillers and […] Read more

Group 2 (Odyssey) injuries in canola on display at CanoLAB 17 in Vermilion. Staff mimicked a drift injury in the greenhouse. Herbicide injury symptoms,  such as purpling and thickened stems, can mimic other issues.

Canola, Crops, Features

Diagnosing herbicide injury

Application can go wrong. Know how to limit and recognize herbicide injury

By Lisa Guenther June 14, 2017

When it comes to diagnosing potential herbicide injury, record keeping is vital, say Canola Council of Canada agronomists. “With soil residual herbicides, herbicide history is really important,” says Ian Epp, agronomy specialist with the Council for northwestern Saskatchewan. Because soil residual herbicides are often applied the previous year, good record keeping is important, he adds. Last […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Pulses

Pea, lentil buyers digest lower values, weather

By GFM Network News June 13, 2017

CNS Canada — Buyers, sellers and processors in Canada’s pulse sector are holding steady as an act of safeguarding themselves during a precarious time in the growing season. “People are just kind of buying what they need,” said David Newman of Commodious Trading, a Victoria-area company dealing with international trade and processing of lentils, peas, […] Read more

Columns, Crops

Putting in those long spring working days

When there are clouds in the sky, there’s no time to waste when the crop’s not in yet

By Toban Dyck June 12, 2017

I had about 50 acres left to seed at 10 p.m. on May 15. The forecast was calling for rain starting at about midnight. But that was for Winkler. I wasn’t near Winkler. I was closer to the system that was rolling east. I didn’t think I’d be able to finish. The system was above […] Read more

Crops, Machinery

Coop federee to exit machinery parts distribution

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News June 10, 2017

Citing “a period of pronounced decline” in its farm machinery business, Quebec farm co-operative La Coop federee plans to get out of parts distribution by next fall. The co-operative announced May 30 it plans to “gradually” close its Dispro farm equipment and parts distribution centre at Trois-Rivieres over a 12- to 15-month period from September […] Read more

Crops, News, Weather

Seeding in Sask. 94 per cent complete, topsoil moisture falling in southern areas

Saskatchewan Crop Report for the week ending June 5, 2017

By Saskatchewan Agriculture June 8, 2017

Seeding operations are almost complete as 94 per cent of the crop is now in the ground, according to Saskatchewan Agriculture’s weekly Crop Report. This is slightly ahead of the five-year (2012-2016) seeding average for this time of year of 93 per cent. While most producers in the province have wrapped up seeding, those in […] Read more

Reader Warren Bepple sent us this photo of rings in his field near Kamloops, B.C.

Crops, Features

The case of the ongoing questions: fairy circles caught readers’ imagination

By Leeann Minogue June 6, 2017

Our Casebook feature is popular with Grainews readers, and it generates quite a bit o mail. But we have never had as much interest in a case as we had with our story about fairy circles. Many of you have had experience with this. This question (and photo above) came to us from Warren Bepple: […] Read more

Crops

Play it safe with pre-harvest glyphosate

Follow the label and consult grain buyers for guidelines

By Julienne Isaacs June 6, 2017

When it comes to pre-harvest perennial weed control, Prairie farmers need to play it safe this fall. As of this year, grain from crops treated with glyphosate might have market access concerns, according to the Keeping it Clean program, a joint initiative of the Canola Council of Canada, Cereals Canada and Pulse Canada. “Glyphosate residues […] Read more

Those wildflowers growing in the ditch may be offering more than just a splash of colour.

Crops, Features

Protecting beneficial insects

By Lisa Guenther June 5, 2017

Folks in crop production tend to focus on the pest insects. But usually most of the insects in a field are beneficial insects, says Dr. Vincent Hervet, pest management specialist with Alberta Agriculture and Forestry. Parasitoids are just one type of beneficial insect farmers are likely to find in their fields. They are wasps or […] Read more

GrainsConnect Canada, whose terminal under construction at Maymont, Sask., is shown here, plans to open an elevator at Huxley, Alta. in 2019. (GrainsConnect.com)

Crops

GrainsConnect picks second Alberta terminal site

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News June 3, 2017

The joint venture between Australia’s GrainCorp and Japan’s Zen-Noh Grain is taking its Prairie grain handling model to southern Alberta. GrainsConnect Canada announced plans Thursday to build a fourth Prairie high-throughput grain terminal on Canadian National (CN) Railway track at Huxley, Alta., about 75 km southeast of Red Deer. The company — which expects to […] Read more

Daily Network News

Iran says Strait of Hormuz open as Trump sees deal ‘soon’ to end war

Agriculture groups welcome seed, fertilizer approval bill

AAFC projects tighter canola stocks for 2026-27

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