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If your desire is to reduce costs heading into an uncertain spring season, seed treatment may be one of the first agronomic tools to be removed from your crop plan. However, seed treatment is an important investment for your farm, regardless of growing or economic conditions.

Why seed treatment is important this year

Q & A with an expert

By Derek Flad April 27, 2022

Q: Why should I keep a seed treatment in my crop plan? A: Amid severe drought in parts of the Prairies and the desire to reduce costs heading into an uncertain spring season, seed treatment may be one of the first agronomic tools to be removed from your crop plan. However, seed treatment is an […] Read more

Columns, Crops, Hay

How to produce quality hay horse owners want to buy

Taking crops off your hay land is much the same as cropping it to wheat or canola

By Ieuan Evans April 27, 2022

What is hay? Recent hamburger commercials keep referring to grass-fed beef. If you feed your cattle hay, are they still grass fed? All the year round, grass feeding occurs in very few areas of the world. In most of North America, hay is fed up to six or seven months of the year. Bison or […] Read more

Yuri, a Ukrainian farmer, wears his body armour while preparing to work in a field on April 26, 2022 in the country’s southern Zaporizhzhia region. (Photo: Reuters/Ueslei Marcelino)

Crops, Reuters

Ukrainian farmers don bulletproof vests to plough frontline fields

By GFM Network News April 27, 2022

Zaporizhzhia | Reuters — Ukrainian farmers in the southern region of Zaporizhzhia, which borders the frontline of the military conflict with Russia, are now wearing body armour to plough their fields. A week after the war started, grad rockets — bombs fired via a truck-mounted multiple-launch system — began falling right next door to the […] Read more

Signage on a Tweed retail outlet in Winnipeg. (Dave Bedard photo)

Crops, Reuters

Pot producer Canopy Growth to cut 250 jobs in profitability bid

By Reuters, GFM Network News April 26, 2022

Reuters — Canopy Growth Corp. said it would lay off about 250 employees as part of a cost-cutting plan as the Canadian pot producer tries to achieve long-elusive profitability. Most Canadian marijuana companies have struggled to turn a profit despite more than three years of cannabis legalization due to fewer-than-expected retail stores, cheaper rates on […] Read more

File photo of fresh palm fruits and palm oil. (Slpu9945/iStock/Getty Images)

Crops, Markets, Reuters

Indonesia’s palm oil export ban seen short-lived on limited storage

By GFM Network News April 26, 2022

Jakarta/Mumbai | Reuters — Indonesia’s ban on palm oil exports is unlikely to last more than a month as Jakarta has limited infrastructure to store the surplus oil and the country faces mounting pressure from buyers to resume shipments, industry officials said. The world’s top palm oil exporter announced plans to ban exports on Friday, […] Read more

CBOT July 2022 corn (candlesticks) with 20- and 100-day moving averages (yellow and dark green lines) and December 2022 corn (orange line). (Barchart)

Crops, Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: CBOT corn, wheat up on concerns about U.S. crops

Chicago soybean futures fall

By Mark Weinraub, GFM Network News April 26, 2022

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat and corn futures rose on Tuesday, supported by concerns that adverse weather in key production areas would limit the size of harvests this year, traders said. Soybean futures eased as Brazil’s Anec raised its outlook for the country’s export forecast for the oilseed. Losses were kept in check by […] Read more

One way to gauge the severity of blackleg infection is to cut through the base of the stem and see how much blackening there is inside.

Canola, Crops, Features

Blackleg is still a threat for canola

Resistant hybrids may not be enough to keep your fields safe from this canola disease

By Mark Halsall April 26, 2022

One of the most common diseases in canola is blackleg. As a fungal disease, it needs moisture to spread but infections still occur in the dry years we’ve been seeing lately in the Prairies. Justine Cornelsen, who was an agronomy specialist with the Canola Council of Canada before joining BrettYoung as agronomic and regulatory services […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Weather

StatsCan predicts more Canadian wheat acres, less canola in 2022

Lentil, corn, soy acres are also expected up from 2021, barley down

By GFM Network News April 26, 2022

MarketsFarm — Canada’s farmers intend to seed more acres to wheat and less to canola in 2022, according to the first survey-based estimates from Statistics Canada for the upcoming crop year released Tuesday. Canola area is forecast at 20.9 million acres by the government agency, which would be down by seven per cent from the […] Read more

File photo of lentils being moved into bins in Saskatchewan. (Bobloblaw/iStock/Getty Images)

Crops, Lentils, Markets, Pulses

Pulse weekly outlook: Lentil acres likely up in 2022

Other pulses likely down, though

By GFM Network News April 26, 2022

MarketsFarm — Statistics Canada released its first survey-based crop acreage estimates of 2022 on Tuesday, reporting that while more lentil acres may be planted this spring, other pulses are expected to have their seeded area shrink. The national data agency projected 4.49 million acres of lentils will be planted in Canada this year, a 4.2 […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: CBOT soyoil futures fall from highs; pull soybeans lower

By Mark Weinraub, GFM Network News April 25, 2022

Chicago | Reuters – Chicago Board of Trade soyoil futures fell on Monday, retreating from all-time highs after Indonesia’s agriculture ministry said that crude palm oil shipments would be excluded from a planned palm oil export ban. The weakness in soyoil pressured soybeans and soymeal, which also faced bearish headwinds from a sharp drop in […] Read more

Media reports suggest U.S. dairy access to Canada a topic of conversation in Ottawa

U.S. livestock: Cattle choppy amid weak cash market, tight supply

China’s canola, soybeans imports to drop one million tonnes each

GFM Network News

Media reports suggest U.S. dairy access to Canada a topic of conversation in Ottawa

U.S. livestock: Cattle choppy amid weak cash market, tight supply

China’s canola, soybeans imports to drop one million tonnes each

Crops

Why seed treatment is important this year

How to produce quality hay horse owners want to buy

Ukrainian farmers don bulletproof vests to plough frontline fields

Pot producer Canopy Growth to cut 250 jobs in profitability bid

Indonesia’s palm oil export ban seen short-lived on limited storage

U.S. grains: CBOT corn, wheat up on concerns about U.S. crops

Blackleg is still a threat for canola

StatsCan predicts more Canadian wheat acres, less canola in 2022

Pulse weekly outlook: Lentil acres likely up in 2022

U.S. grains: CBOT soyoil futures fall from highs; pull soybeans lower

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