Cereals & Production Tips

Look beyond your yield

Agronomy tips... from the field

By Richard Marsh, Syngenta February 9, 2015

When it comes to cereal seed selection, it’s easy to default to the variety with the highest provincial average yield. But what’s good province-wide might not be best for your farm. Instead, decide are what the most important attributes to you. Besides yield, is it protein, fusarium head blight (FHB) tolerance, rust tolerance, lodging, maturity […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Spring Wheat, Winter Wheat

Nearby lows likely in for wheat futures

By GFM Network News February 5, 2015

CNS Canada — All three U.S. wheat futures markets have seen a sizeable corrective bounce after hitting their lowest levels in months to start the week — and could be due for some more strength heading into the spring, a U.S. analyst says. “I’d like to think that the lows are in for the short […] Read more

Cereals

Beating back black chaff

Black chaff can lower yields in your wheat field. Make sure your seed is disease free this spring 

By Michael Flood February 5, 2015

You’re out in your wheat field, inspecting your crop. It’s been a good season, a bit wet earlier in the year, but the plants are growing strong and it looks like you’ll have a good yield come autumn. Then you spot something odd — a bunch of the plants have leaves covered in dark stripes […] Read more

Cereals, News

A smut by any other name

Smut is one of the few diseases that’s not a hot button issue this winter. But true loose  smut can cause headaches for barley growers. Here’s how to keep it out of your fields

By Patty Milligan February 5, 2015

Covered, loose, false, true, stinking, stem, common. Apparently, a smut exists for every occasion. Smut is a broad term that refers to a variety of fungal diseases that affect cereal grains on the Canadian prairies. Each smut is caused by a specific fungi which attacks a particular grain and produces slightly different effects. One thing all smuts have in common: […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Spring Wheat, Winter Wheat

Prairie CWRS bids weaken slightly

By GFM Network News February 2, 2015

CNS Canada — Average cash bids for Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS) wheat generally moved lower during the week ended Friday. Average CWRS prices lost about C$1-$4 per tonne, with prices ranging from about $197 per tonne in north-central Saskatchewan to $216 per tonne in Manitoba, according to bids from a cross-section of delivery points […] Read more

(Stephen Ausmus photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Crops, Markets, Spring Wheat, Winter Wheat

Wheat basis muddied in Western Canada

By GFM Network News January 30, 2015

CNS Canada — The difference between futures markets and cash markets for any exchange-traded commodities can usually be brought into focus by the basis — that is, except in Prairie wheat, where that focus has now gone fuzzy. Typically, a wide or narrow basis provides some indication of how representative the futures market is of […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Spring Wheat, Winter Wheat

Prairie CWRS bids improve slightly despite weaker futures

By GFM Network News January 26, 2015

CNS Canada — Average cash bids for Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS) wheat generally moved higher during the week ended Friday, despite continued weakness in U.S. futures, as basis levels improved in many areas. Average CWRS prices were steady to up by as much as $4 per tonne, with the highest average bids in Manitoba, […] Read more

(Michael Thompson photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Crops, Weather, Winter Wheat

Mild weather poses risks for Prairie winter wheat

By GFM Network News January 26, 2015

CNS Canada — Milder-than-normal temperatures across Western Canada over the past week could raise some issues for its winter wheat crops, though snow cover and conditions through the rest of the winter will also be important. “It’s not ideal conditions for winter wheat, and I’d anticipate that we’d see some damage,” said CWB analyst Bruce […] Read more

Buckwheat requires cross-pollination. Even with self-pollinating varieties farmers will experience much higher yields if they place hives on their fields. Buckwheat is not as expensive to grow as wheat or canola.

Cereals, Features

Re-building buckwheat production

Buckwheat is difficult to grow and hard to market. But there is money to be made when things go well

By Patty Milligan January 23, 2015

Buckwheat is a curious crop. It’s not new or exotic; it was planted in Western Canada as early as 1925. It’s familiar to most Canadians in its various forms — pancakes, soba noodles, or groats (also known as kasha) to name three. There is high demand for it on the Japanese market yet only a […] Read more

Cereals, Wheat & Chaff

How you’re funding the WGRF

By Leeann Minogue January 21, 2015

In the last issue of Grainews we ran a story about farm research levies. That was just the first in a series of articles about the organizations representing Prairie farmers. In this column: the Western Grains Research Foundation. You’re funding that. Your money gets to the WGRF in two ways. We’ll start with your levies. […] Read more

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Cereals

Look beyond your yield

Nearby lows likely in for wheat futures

Beating back black chaff

A smut by any other name

Prairie CWRS bids weaken slightly

Wheat basis muddied in Western Canada

Prairie CWRS bids improve slightly despite weaker futures

Mild weather poses risks for Prairie winter wheat

Re-building buckwheat production

How you’re funding the WGRF

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