Crops & Production Tips

Prairie oats crop off to a decent start

By GFM Network News June 8, 2015

CNS Canada — Western Canadian farmers are wrapping up seeding their oats crops, which so far are off to a decent start in many areas. “I know in Manitoba, in the Red River Valley, the oats are off to an excellent start,” said Art Enns, president of the Prairie Oats Growers Association. “In Saskatchewan it’s […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Spring Wheat, Winter Wheat

Wheat bids climb with U.S. futures

By GFM Network News June 8, 2015

CNS Canada –– Cash bids for Canadian wheat climbed sharply during the week ended Friday, as a rally in U.S. futures pulled bids up across the Prairies. Average Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS) wheat prices were C$12 to $19 per tonne higher, with bids ranging from about $218 per tonne in north-central Saskatchewan to as […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Wheat adds two per cent gain to weather-related rally

By Rod Nickel, GFM Network News June 8, 2015

Reuters — Chicago wheat futures climbed two per cent on Monday, extending last week’s rally on worries over potentially lower crop yields in the U.S. Plains. Wheat’s gains helped pull corn and soybeans close to the multi-week highs they touched on Friday. Weather concerns encouraged investors to cover short positions, said Mark Schultz, chief analyst […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters

Monsanto sweetens Syngenta play with $2B break fee

By Reuters, GFM Network News June 8, 2015

New York | Reuters –– U.S. seed and ag chem firm Monsanto has offered to pay a US$2 billion reverse break-up fee to Syngenta if it can’t obtain global regulatory approvals for an acquisition, it said in a statement on Sunday. The move, under which Monsanto would pay the fee if regulators reject the proposal, […] Read more

Dr. Roy Golsteyn’s lab is studying buffalo bean for compounds that may help fight certain cancers. (Photo courtesy University of Lethbridge)

Crops

Guenther: Buffalo bean more than floral for cancer researchers

By Lisa Guenther, GFM Network News June 6, 2015

Buffalo beans adorn the pastures, field edges and even kitchen tables of many Prairie farms and ranches — but the pretty plant is now also being picked for its potential properties as a cancer fighter. Experiments show compounds extracted from buffalo bean leaves have potential to fight a class of cancers that includes multiple myeloma, […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Profit-taking weighs on soybeans, corn, wheat

By GFM Network News June 5, 2015

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn, wheat and soybean futures fell on Friday on end-of-week profit-taking and technical selling, traders said. It was the first time all three commodities posted losses on the same day since May 26. Some position-squaring ahead of the U.S. Agriculture Department’s monthly supply and demand report on Wednesday was noted. […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Oats, Reuters, Soybeans, Spring Wheat

CME bars grain traders for years over wash trades, spoofing

By Reuters, GFM Network News June 5, 2015

Chicago | Reuters –– CME Group said Friday it barred a grain trader from its markets for three years for executing noncompetitive transactions and suspended another for two years for market manipulation. The traders, Aleksey Vsemirnov and Stephen Duggan, could not immediately be reached for comment. Vsemirnov executed numerous non-competitive transactions in wheat, oats, rice, […] Read more

Canola, Crops

Time to test all Man. fields for clubroot, province says

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News June 5, 2015

Distribution of clubroot spores across Manitoba now suggests it’s time for more widespread testing to keep the disease in check, the provincial ag department recommends. Since the disease appeared in Manitoba in 2009, fewer than five per cent of the province’s farms have so far been tested for the spores that cause the yield-robbing disease […] Read more

Crops, Soybeans, Weather

Sask., Man. soybeans survive with minor complications

By GFM Network News June 4, 2015

CNS Canada — Soybean crops have persevered through the frosty spring for the most part, agricultural experts in Manitoba and Saskatchewan say. Though farmers are still in the process of assessing damage, most plants had not yet emerged from the ground in both provinces when temperatures fell below freezing at the end of May. Kristen […] Read more

Canola at the cotyledon stage. (Photo courtesy Canola Council of Canada)

Canola, Crops, Weather

U.S. canola crop also hurt by frost, likely off early estimates

By GFM Network News June 4, 2015

CNS Canada — Recent frost that forced farmers to reseed canola fields across a large portion of Western Canada also reached into canola-growing regions of the northern U.S., with production likely taking a hit south of the border as well. “We’ve had at least 200,000 acres that have been reseeded, and a small number of […] Read more

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Crops

Prairie oats crop off to a decent start

Wheat bids climb with U.S. futures

U.S. grains: Wheat adds two per cent gain to weather-related rally

Monsanto sweetens Syngenta play with $2B break fee

Guenther: Buffalo bean more than floral for cancer researchers

U.S. grains: Profit-taking weighs on soybeans, corn, wheat

CME bars grain traders for years over wash trades, spoofing

Time to test all Man. fields for clubroot, province says

Sask., Man. soybeans survive with minor complications

U.S. canola crop also hurt by frost, likely off early estimates

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