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Crops, Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Wheat rises nearly four per cent on short-covering, corn and soy climb

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Chicago | Reuters – Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) wheat futures rose nearly four per cent on Tuesday, rebounding from life-of-contract lows as a softer dollar and the approach of the spring growing season in the northern hemisphere sparked a short-covering rally, analysts said. CBOT corn and soybeans also closed higher but hovered near multi-year […] Read more
Twelve binders at work near Wilcox, Sask., in what's now the RM of Bratt's Lake, year unknown.
Columns, Crops, Spring Wheat

Where the wheat was

Let's track 85 years of hard red spring wheat yields in Saskatchewan, by RM

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The folks at Saskatchewan’s ministry of agriculture have produced a digital dashboard that has a complete record of wheat yields for each rural municipality all the way back to 1938. It is an Excel file, 20.5 MB in size, which means a lot of numbers. It’s very easy to select any RM in the province […] Read more
U of M professor Paul Bullock checks data from a portable weather station during development of the FHB risk assessment tool.
Cereals, Crops, Wheat & Chaff

Online fusarium management tool due out this spring

Preliminary tests of the online tool showed a good level of accuracy

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A follow-up to a story we first brought you last July about a new online tool being developed by soil scientists at the University of Manitoba to make fusarium head blight (FHB) risk management in cereal crops easier for Prairie farmers. Paul Bullock, a senior scholar with the U of M’s department of soil science, […] Read more
Blueberries from last summer, when it was too hot to even consider canning, were kept frozen until the arrival of better jam-making weather.
Columns, Farm Life, Fruit/Vegetables

Fruits in a Prairie winter, part 1: Blueberries

Picked fresh or cooked into favourite foods, those purple berries leave their mark in memories

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Last week I made jam from blueberries I had frozen last summer, when it was just too hot to consider canning. Stirring the pot reminded me of other lovely ways and words with the blue fruit. “The way the night tastes” is how the U.S. poet W.S. Merwin described blueberries. Another poet, Mary Oliver, wrote […] Read more
Oat protein’s properties are the subject of study at the University of Manitoba.
Crops, Features, Oats

Oat protein: the next oat milk?

Researchers pursue a new health claim — not for oat fibre, but for oat protein

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In a lab at the University of Manitoba, Lovemore Malunga holds up a Ziploc bag containing a whitish-light brown powder. He opens the bag and carefully pours the powder into a small, plastic container. A master’s student, Vanessa Alexander, takes the container and places it on a scale. She adjusts the scale — to account […] Read more
black calf on pasture
Beef Cattle, Crops, Features

Time to buy some cows?

Cattle right now are more profitable than crops, this farm management expert says

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Glacier FarmMedia — When all costs are factored into the equation, raising cattle should be more profitable than growing crops in 2024 — and in some cases, much more so. “Right now, I can tell you that the returns per acre are higher than any of the crops,” said Ben Hamm, a farm management specialist […] Read more
The soybean tentiform leafminer is blamed for these blotchy leaf mines on plants in a soybean field.
Features, Soybeans

Native insect acquires taste for soy

What's now called the soybean tentiform leafminer is moving north

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A tiny North American moth species that has been seen in Canada has been developing a new appetite for soybean plants on the U.S. Plains. The species, Macrosaccus morrisella — now officially named the soybean tentiform leafminer — was detected feeding on soybean crops in eastern Minnesota in 2021 and has since taken its newfound […] Read more

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