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EU wheat rises ahead of U.S. elections, USDA report

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Paris/Reuters – European wheat prices rose in the wake of Chicago on Tuesday in a broader rise across international markets which increasingly anticipated the victory of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in the U.S. Presidential elections. Traders also pointed to short covering and technical buying ahead of the election results and the release a much awaited […] Read more
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Cereals, Crops, Weather, Winter Wheat

Winter cereal acres unclear due to wet conditions

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Commodity News Service Canada/Winnipeg – Variable conditions across Manitoba and Saskatchewan have made it difficult to estimate winter cereal acreage, the head of an industry group says. But crops that are in the ground have seen mostly favourable weather. Jake Davidson, executive director of Winter Cereals Canada Inc., said he’s waiting for data from Statistics […] Read more
The white, shriveled kernels have been damaged by fusarium. Take safety measures to minimize risk.
Cereals, Crops

Got fusarium? Handle it safely

Fusarium damaged grain can be dangerous to more than just your bank account

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Does handling fusarium infected grain pose more risks to producers than regular grain? It’s a question that yields few answers to the casual researcher or farmer looking for information online. In fact, according to J. David Miller, a professor at Carleton University, you only really hear about the dangers of fusarium damaged grain, and how […] Read more
Fusarium graminearum symptoms in barley are less obvious than those in wheat. Dust from contaminated grain contains more contaminated material than the grain itself.
Cereals, Crops, Features

Marketing fusarium-damaged wheat

Got fusarium? Here are five guidelines for unloading that low-grade grain

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If you grew wheat this year, odds are good you’re facing the hard reality of fusarium. What are you going to do with damaged grain? It’s a hard question in a good year, and much harder in a year when fusarium infection is widespread. Grain infected with Fusarium graminearum can carry vomitoxin (also known as […] Read more
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Canola, Cereals, Crops

Grains sector continues to welcome transport legislation

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CNSC – Accolades from producer groups and others in the grain industry continue to roll in for the federal government’s upcoming transportation legislation. The planned measures were outlined this week by Marc Garneau, the federal transportation minister, in a speech in Montreal. The new legislation will allow reciprocal penalties in service level agreements between railway […] Read more
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Cereals, Crops

Proposed transportation legislation gets thumbs up from grain industry

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It might feel like Christmas came early for grain grower organizations, who have long been calling for reform of grain transportation regulations. The Federal government has promised to introduce legislation in early 2017 that is going to check some items off their wish list. Transport Minister Marc Garneau unveiled the federal government’s plans in a […] Read more
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Crops, Spring Wheat

Ottawa to back P+H’s Hamilton flour mill

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Winnipeg agrifood firm Parrish and Heimbecker has lined up more government financing for its planned new flour mill at Hamilton, this time from the federal level. Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay on Thursday announced a $10 million “repayable investment” in the project from the AgriInnovation program, part of the Growing Forward 2 ag policy funding framework. […] Read more
Some plants appeared to be further along than others, but these plants were contained within strips that ran in straight lines down the entire length of the field rather than in random patches.
Cereals, Crops

Crop Advisor’s Casebook: Inconsistent wheat development

A Crop Advisor's Solution from the February 24, 2015 issue of Grainews

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During the last week of August, I was crop scouting for Gerald, who farms 6,000 acres of wheat, barley, oats and canola just north of Wadena, Sask. I was recording the severity of fusarium head blight in one of Gerald’s wheat fields when I noticed something unusual. It was well into the growing season and […] Read more

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