Canola & Production Tips

The diamondback moth is capable of producing as many as four generations each year. The earlier they arrive and the better the conditions, they more they reproduce.

Why was 2017 an unprecedented year for diamondback moth?

Reviewing economic thresholds and  action plans to control this insect pest

By Melanie Epp February 20, 2018

Last year’s growing season was a freakish one for diamondback moth in Western Canada, and while the probability that an outbreak of this calibre will be seen in 2018 is very low, the possibility is always there. Knowing what to do and when to act can help you to get this insect pest under better […] Read more

Chad contacted me about malformed pods on the upper portion of his glyphosate-tolerant canola plants.

Canola, Crops, Features

Crop advisor casebook: What caused the malformed pods in Chad’s canola crop?

A Crop Advisor's Solution from the February 13, 2018 issue of Grainews

By Rose Boughton February 14, 2018

Chad, who owns a mixed grain and cattle farm near Togo, Sask., noticed something was not quite right with his canola crop. It was early August 2016 when Chad contacted me about malformed pods on the upper portion of his glyphosate-tolerant canola plants. “The pods don’t look right,” he said. “They’re all twisted up and […] Read more

Canola, Crops, Markets

ICE weekly outlook: Canola hits resistance

By GFM Network News February 14, 2018

CNS Canada — ICE Futures Canada canola contracts moved higher over the past week, but may be running into resistance to the upside. “I’m sensing that canola is at the top end of the range,” said Errol Anderson of ProMarket Communications in Calgary, noting much of the recent strength was tied to advances in Chicago […] Read more

Canola, Crops

Early canola promoter Gordon Graham, 89

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News February 13, 2018

A memorial is to be held in June in Brandon for a Prairie farmer who helped lead the charge on adoption of rapeseed as a crop, as it morphed into today’s canola. Gordon Graham, who farmed near Newdale, Man., about 75 km north of Brandon, died Wednesday at age 89 in Cochrane, Alta. Graham, an […] Read more

Canola, Crops, Features

New non-GMO canola variety for the market

Manipulation and natural plant enzymes create sulfonylurea-resistant variety

By Lee Hart February 8, 2018

For western Canadian farmers waiting for a herbicide tolerant canola variety with a different mode of chemistry action to help reduce the risk of herbicide tolerance, SU Canola is here. Commercially available on a limited basis, Cibus (pronounced See-bus) is launching its first herbicide-tolerant, non-GMO canola variety, resistant to sulfonylurea herbicide, to Prairie farmers for […] Read more

Canola, Crops, Markets

ICE weekly outlook: Rain in Argentina could provide direction

By GFM Network News February 7, 2018

CNS Canada — ICE Futures Canada canola contracts finally broke through the psychologically-important $500 per tonne mark during the week ended Wednesday. That could be a fleeting achievement, however, depending on the chances for rainfall in Argentina and the next U.S. Department of Agriculture report. “If rain comes, soybeans could go down to US$9.60 a […] Read more

Canola, News

Clubroot can damage more than just the bottom line

Along with economic and agronomic problems, clubroot causes emotional damage

By Lisa Guenther February 6, 2018

Clubroot is a potentially devastating disease for canola growers in Western Canada. Severely infested fields may not be able to grow canola in the foreseeable future. Less-severe fields may see yield drops without a change in farming practices. That adds up to a financial hit for affected farmers. But while the economic and agronomic realities […] Read more

(Mark Wilson photo courtesy Louis Dreyfus Co.)

Canola, Crops, Markets, Soybeans

Producers lose transparency with end of weekly crush report

By GFM Network News February 5, 2018

CNS Canada — Canada’s grains industry found itself shocked when the Canadian Oilseed Processors Association (COPA) announced Friday it would stop publishing its weekly report on member crushings. “I loved that report. In Western Canada, or Canada in general, I think any reports that give you kind of a weekly snapshot of what’s happening in […] Read more

Country Guide in 2014 profiled Milligan Biofuels, whose Foam Lake, Sask. facility is shown here with the company’s first executive manager, local farmer Zenneth Faye. (Photo for Country Guide by Carol’s Photography)

Canola, Crops, Machinery

Canola biodiesel processor in receivership

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News February 3, 2018

An eastern Saskatchewan biodiesel processor using growers’ heated, green, spring-harvested, tough and otherwise off-spec canola for feedstock is in receivership. Saskatchewan Court of Queen’s Bench on Thursday appointed Calgary-based insolvency trustee Hardie and Kelly as the receiver for Milligan Biofuels, which operates at Foam Lake, about 90 km northwest of Yorkton. Alberta’s Crown lending agency […] Read more

Canola seed, oil and meal. (Photo courtesy Canola Council of Canada)

Canola, Crops, Soybeans

COPA ends weekly canola, soybean crush reports

By GFM Network News February 2, 2018

CNS Canada — The Canadian Oilseed Processors Association (COPA) announced Friday it will stop publishing its weekly report on member crushings. The report detailed how much canola and soybeans were crushed in Canada. The report was issued weekly and followed by different industry professionals across the country. Ken Ball of PI Financial in Winnipeg was […] Read more

GFM Network News

Federal government funds P.E.I. halal beef processing

EU states back record South America trade deal after 25 years

World food prices extend fall in December, UN’s FAO says

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