Canola & Production Tips

ICE weekly outlook: Uncertainty to underpin canola in short term

By GFM Network News June 7, 2017

CNS Canada — ICE Futures Canada canola futures advanced on the week and are likely to keep near-term support, one analyst says, as traders mull over the question: Just how much canola is out there? “There’s still a lot of uncertainty about canola numbers; we’re still not certain about how big the last crop was; […] Read more

Amara beetles hunt and chew on cutworms at CanoLAB in Vermilion. Amara beetles belong to the  Carabid family.

Canola, Crops, Features

Increasing yields with natural landscapes

Researchers say maintaining some natural habitat next to your fields can bring yield increases

By Lisa Guenther June 5, 2017

Researchers are looking at how natural landscapes can bump yield in nearby canola fields in Alberta, and they want your yield data. Previous research, done at various locations around the world, has shown that native habitat bestows yield gains and cuts insecticide applications on neighbouring farmland, says Gregory Sekulic, agronomist with the Canola Council of […] Read more

(Photo courtesy Canola Council of Canada)

Canola, Crops, Markets

Visible canola stocks tightest in nearly three years

By GFM Network News June 2, 2017

CNS Canada –– Canola supplies in commercial hands in Canada dropped to their tightest level in nearly three years, according to the latest data from the Canadian Grain Commission for the week ended Sunday. Visible canola supplies, at 702,700, are down from the already tight level of 830,200 tonnes posted the previous week and represent […] Read more

Canola, Crops, Markets

ICE weekly outlook: More losses likely for bearish canola

By GFM Network News May 31, 2017

CNS Canada — ICE Futures Canada canola contracts posted large losses during the week ended Wednesday, and could be headed even lower, as bearish technicals and weakness in global economic markets outweigh supportive fundamentals. “We’re going into a seasonally slower demand period,” said Errol Anderson of ProMarket Communications. A downgrade of China’s credit by Moody’s […] Read more

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Conagra to sell Wesson oil brand to Smucker

By Reuters, GFM Network News May 30, 2017

Reuters — Packaged food maker Conagra Brands said on Tuesday it would sell its Wesson cooking oil brand to Folgers coffee maker J.M. Smucker Co. for about US$285 million. Conagra will continue to manufacture products sold under the Wesson brand for up to one year following the close, after which Wesson will be merged into […] Read more

Canola plants were stunted or missing at the edges of and inside the small circles.

Canola, Crops, Features

Crop Advisor’s Casebook: Crop circles made by space invaders or salinity?

A Crop Advisor's Solution from the March 7, 2017 issue of Grainews

By Josefine Bartlett May 25, 2017

Jim, a Fairview-area producer, dropped into our office for coffee one morning in early October last year. When he spotted me, he called me over, eager to show me some photos he had taken of one of his canola fields. Jim said he’d finished swathing the day before, and he found something unusual in this […] Read more

Canola, Crops, Wheat & Chaff

Don’t rush canola into cooler soils

Agronomy tips... from the field

By Rob Bishop May 24, 2017

Your flea beetle management strategy this season is going to depend on what type of weather conditions and soil temperatures experienced in the days leading up to seeding. Striped flea beetles are going to be a significant threat to your emerging canola, and were responsible for about 90 per cent of the feeding damage we […] Read more

Canola, Crops, Markets

ICE weekly outlook: Weather issues, tight stocks lift canola

By GFM Network News May 24, 2017

CNS Canada –– The ICE Futures Canada canola market lost ground during the week ended Wednesday, pushed down by losses in the U.S. soy complex. A corruption scandal in Brazil sparked a steep selloff in soybeans during last Thursday’s session, which affected oilseeds around the world, including canola. Canola’s dominant July contract lost $4 during […] Read more

Seven days after Ken sprayed his herbicide-tolerant canola crop, most of the plants in one field were dead or dying.

Canola, Crops, Features

Crop Advisor’s Casebook: What caused this 80 per cent loss in canola?

A Crop Advisor's Solution from the February 21, 2017 issue of Grainews

By Jason Sauchuk May 19, 2017

Ken, a central Alberta producer who farms 2,000 acres of cereals and oilseeds, in addition to 150 head of cattle, called me after he discovered 80 per cent of the canola plants he’d seeded in one field were dead in the seed row. He thought the problem might be a sprayer issue, since a prominent […] Read more

New growth on a canola plant following a frost indicates the seedling has survived. (Canola Council of Canada photo)

Canola, Crops, Weather

Take time to judge frost damage on canola

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News May 19, 2017

After temperatures Thursday dropped as low as -5 C in parts of Manitoba and Saskatchewan, growers who’ve already seeded may be wondering whether emerging canola plants have survived. It’s best not to write off those seedlings right away, according to the Canola Council of Canada in a Canola Watch newsletter on Friday. It can take […] Read more

Feed Grains Weekly: Price likely to keep stepping back

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures climb, lean hogs also rise

U.S. grains: Corn rises on strong demand, disease concerns

GFM Network News

Feed Grains Weekly: Price likely to keep stepping back

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures climb, lean hogs also rise

U.S. grains: Corn rises on strong demand, disease concerns

Canola

ICE weekly outlook: Uncertainty to underpin canola in short term

Increasing yields with natural landscapes

Visible canola stocks tightest in nearly three years

ICE weekly outlook: More losses likely for bearish canola

Conagra to sell Wesson oil brand to Smucker

Crop Advisor’s Casebook: Crop circles made by space invaders or salinity?

Don’t rush canola into cooler soils

ICE weekly outlook: Weather issues, tight stocks lift canola

Crop Advisor’s Casebook: What caused this 80 per cent loss in canola?

Take time to judge frost damage on canola

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