Cereals & Production Tips

Keep your cereal stand one step ahead of wireworms

By Mark Mercier March 21, 2017

Wireworms can quickly weave a destructive path through your cereal stand. Knowing what symptoms to look for can help you identify and take steps to protect your crop from this destructive pest. You might start off by seeing bare patches that can be small, one or two-metre gaps, or larger areas where you have thin […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Spring Wheat

Speculation shrouds grain demand, rejections from Egypt

By GFM Network News March 17, 2017

CNS Canada — Egypt, the world’s biggest buyer of wheat, rejected three cargoes of the grain last week — its first rejections since it overhauled its inspection system and relaxed its import policy last fall. Three cargoes of wheat — two Russian, one Argentinian — purchased by Egyptian grain buyer GASC were rejected last week […] Read more

Cereals, News

Grain cars moving, but not fast enough for some farmers

Poor weather slows loading on the West Coast

By Lisa Guenther March 16, 2017

With spring around the corner, some farmers are worried they won’t get grain delivered before road bans and field work begins. Brian Stratuliak is a grain and cattle producer in the Dawson Creek, B.C., area. He had planned to deliver 300 tonnes of feed wheat this winter, but has only been able to deliver 120 […] Read more

Barley, Crops, Reuters

Ameropa to shut malting barley trading firm Interbrau

By Reuters, GFM Network News March 16, 2017

Hamburg | Reuters — Swiss-based grain trading group Ameropa AG said Thursday it will end its involvement in malting barley trading and close its Hamburg-based malting barley trading house Interbrau GmbH at the end of 2017. “This decision is mainly driven by the fact that the malting barley market did not develop as Ameropa had […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Spring Wheat

Durum lacks momentum ahead of competing harvests

By GFM Network News March 14, 2017

CNS Canada — Canadian durum prices are at a standstill as the market looks to upcoming production, while domestic crops act as a “wild card,” one Winnipeg-based analyst says. “The durum market is certainly quiet right now. We’re kind of in that period where we’re in a lull,” said Jerry Klassen, manager of the Canadian […] Read more

Barley, Crops, Spring Wheat, Weather

Feed market awaits influx of spring-threshed grains

By GFM Network News March 14, 2017

CNS Canada — As spring slowly approaches, western Canadian feed dealers are warily eyeing the amount of grain that may be left over on Prairie fields. “There’s a bit of concern about how much spring-threshed grain we may see here in the next few weeks,” said Allan Pirness of Market Place Commodities in Lethbridge. “That’s […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Winter Wheat

U.S. wheat market watching weather closely

By GFM Network News March 14, 2017

CNS Canada — U.S. wheat futures posted sharp losses over the past few weeks, but values found support on Tuesday as weather forecasts provide nearby direction, according to an analyst. Minneapolis and Kansas City wheat contracts lost roughly US30-40 cents per bushel over the past month, as ample world supplies weighed on values. “We’ve certainly […] Read more

Cereals, Crops

Canada Bread buys into organic craft bread market

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News March 7, 2017

A Toronto baking firm that grows and contracts its own organic grains in eastern Ontario is going to be an entry point in the craft bread market for Canada Bread. Canada Bread, the Canadian arm of Mexican baking giant Grupo Bimbo, announced Monday it had completed its deal to buy Stonemill Bakehouse Ltd. for an […] Read more

Sunset in Egypt on the Nile River south of Luxor. (CIA.gov)

Crops, Reuters, Spring Wheat

Egyptians protest over fears of bread subsidy cuts

By GFM Network News March 7, 2017

Alexandria, Egypt | Reuters — Hundreds of Egyptians protested around the country on Tuesday, blocking roads and surrounding government offices, after a change to the way bread rations are managed raised fears that the government was cutting food subsidies by the back door. Bread subsidies are an explosive issue in Egypt, where more than 70 […] Read more

The affected plants were all stunted, with small heads, brownish stained lower stems and yellow bottom leaves. There was virtually no root mass.

Cereals, Crops, Features

Crop Advisor’s Casebook: The mystery of sickly durum wheat

A Crop Advisor's Solution from the March 10, 2015 issue of Grainews

By Ashley Kelly March 2, 2017

In late July, I got an anxious phone call from Terry, who grows 3,500 acres of durum wheat, canola, flax and peas at his farm about 100 kilometres south of Regina, Sask. Terry was worried about the sorry state of his durum crop — the plants were looking extremely unhealthy and he feared nothing could […] Read more

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Cereals

Keep your cereal stand one step ahead of wireworms

Speculation shrouds grain demand, rejections from Egypt

Grain cars moving, but not fast enough for some farmers

Ameropa to shut malting barley trading firm Interbrau

Durum lacks momentum ahead of competing harvests

Feed market awaits influx of spring-threshed grains

U.S. wheat market watching weather closely

Canada Bread buys into organic craft bread market

Egyptians protest over fears of bread subsidy cuts

Crop Advisor’s Casebook: The mystery of sickly durum wheat

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