Corn & Production Tips

VIDEO: Chewing the fat on corn-intercrop grazing

By Grainews Staff August 8, 2024

A common practice for some cattle producers is to let loose cows onto a ripe corn field and graze to their heart’s content for fall/winter grazing – trouble is the herd may not be getting the crude protein they need from that meal. In order to help meet a beef cow’s nutritional needs while grazing […] Read more

Corn, Equipment, Machinery

We check out an Italian-made Drago GT corn header

Italian-built brand available from four- to 24-row widths

By Scott Garvey June 26, 2024

As growing grain corn gradually increases in popularity in some prairie regions, more options for combine corn headers are appearing on the market. The Italian-made Drago GT header is one that many producers may not have heard of — yet. Grainews recently reviewed some of the features of the newest Drago GT with the vice-president […] Read more

New crop pricing for barley is becoming available at levels lower than old crop prices, says grain broker Agfinity. Photo: File

Barley, Corn, Markets

Feed weekly: Prairie barley market steady with good new crop projections

By Phil Franz-Warkentin June 13, 2024

Feed barley bids are holding relatively steady in Western Canada, showing little movement over the past month as end users await the new crop amid relatively favourable growing conditions. Drought fears had encouraged some demand earlier in the year, but “now that those fears have been alleviated, (buyers) are starting to dig in,” according to […] Read more

Corn, Reuters

Ukraine corn production seen falling this year

By Nigel Hunt June 12, 2024

London | Reuters – Ukraine’s corn production and exports are expected to fall this year with yields set to fall after extreme heat while crops were sown in April, Mykola Gorbachov, president of the Ukrainian Grain Association (UGA) said on Wednesday. “During the planting time in April we had really hot weather,” he told the […] Read more

Higher concentrations of ground-level ozone caused by wildfires can oxidize plant tissue.

Corn, Crops, Features, Weather

How do smoky skies affect corn crops?

Obscured sunlight and poorer air quality offer benefits as well as drawbacks for the plants

By Don Norman April 30, 2024

Occasional plumes of smoke from distant wildfires may affect human comfort — but how does a smoke-obscured sun and poor air quality affect crops? “This has been a big topic of conversation where I work in the state of Indiana,” says Dan Quinn, an assistant professor of agronomy and extension corn specialist at Purdue University. […] Read more

Many growers equate efficiency with applying their nitrogen "up front" instead of opting for split applications.

Corn, Features

Nitrogen use in corn re-examined

Research from the U.S. Midwest sparks controversy, but the solution may be easier

By Glacier FarmMedia staff, Ralph Pearce February 23, 2024

Glacier FarmMedia — When it comes to nitrogen use in corn, it’s always been a question of how much to apply. University of Illinois research on the source of N — that is, how much a corn plant gets from fertilizer and how much from soil — has initiated a considerable amount of debate since […] Read more

Western bean cutworm hybrids have a VIP3 trait that doesn’t work on ECB, yet they still have a corn borer protein.

Corn, Crops, Features

Old corn pest returns with new threat

Some populations of European corn borer have shown Bt resistance in Manitoba and elsewhere

By Ralph Pearce February 23, 2024

Glacier FarmMedia — Bt corn hybrids have been the story of success in transgenic innovation, a gold standard of biotech pest management, first with European corn borer (ECB) and then corn rootworm (CRW). Now comes a case from Truro, N.S., where a resistant corn borer population confirmed in 2018 also appears resistant to another protein. […] Read more

Barley, Corn, Crops, Markets

Feed weekly outlook: Corn imports, larger crop prospects pressure barley

StatCan expected to raise barley crop estimate

By Phil Franz-Warkentin, GFM Network News December 1, 2023

MarketsFarm — The feed barley market in Western Canada remains relatively flat as steady corn imports from the U.S. keep domestic feeders well supplied. Ideas that Canadian production ended up above earlier expectations were also keeping a lid on the domestic market. Delivered barley into the Lethbridge, Alta. area is currently priced in the $300-$320 […] Read more

Barley, Corn, Crops, Markets

Feed weekly outlook: U.S. corn moving into Canadian feedlots

Canada's feed grain exports down on year

By Phil Franz-Warkentin, GFM Network News November 9, 2023

MarketsFarm — The steady flow of corn from the United States into Canadian feedlots should keep prices for domestic feed grains under pressure for the foreseeable future. Canada imported 91,100 tonnes of corn from the U.S. during the week ended Nov. 2, taking the marketing-year-to-date total to 221,700 tonnes, according to the latest U.S. Department […] Read more

Corn, Corn Guide 2023, Soybean Guide 2023

New corn hybrids for 2024

By Mark Halsall November 9, 2023

Twenty-two new offerings for Prairie farmers There are lots of new choices for corn growers in Western Canada for the next growing season, with 22 new grain and silage hybrids in the offing from BrettYoung, Corteva’s Pioneer Seeds, Dekalb, DLF Pickseed, Maizex, NorthStar Genetics, Proven Seed and Thunder Seed. The following list includes only brand […] Read more

GFM Network News

U.S. grains: Corn, soybeans recover from 3-month low on technical bounce

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures retreat on profit taking

ICE Weekly: All eyes on Carney in China

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