Crops & Production Tips

Don’t join the clubroot club this year

Avoiding serious canola yield loss to clubroot will take a multi-pronged strategy

By Don Norman March 23, 2025

After a string of dry years, the wetter conditions in 2024 saw clubroot hit Alberta hard. Genetic advances in resistant varieties have certainly helped — but clearly the disease isn’t going away. At the CropConnect Conference last month in Winnipeg, Dr. Stephen Strelkov, a University of Alberta professor of plant pathology, provided an update on […] Read more

Canola, Crops, Features

Canola storage requires continued vigilance

Using fans and taking care during canola harvest can help prevent hot canola and spoilage issues

By Alexis Kienlen March 23, 2025

Successful canola storage for Prairie farmers starts with proper management at harvest time, and then continues through the winter months.

Precision Planting's new Panorama app allows users to examine information that was collected during field passes, to analyze and compare it to yield or scouting information.

Crops, Equipment, Machinery

Panorama from Precision Planting offers mobile access to data

A new app and Gen 3 20/20 monitor allow more data collection and detailed analysis, providing better agronomic insight

By Scott Garvey March 21, 2025

Precision Planting has introduced its Panorama app to better take advantage of data collection and machine monitoring.

Crops, News

Reports showcase Canada’s environmental edge in cereal production

By Don Norman March 21, 2025

Reports from Cereals Canada highlight the relatively small environmental footprint of Canadian non-durum wheat, durum wheat, barley, and oats, when compared to top producing countries.

Canola, Crops, Markets, Winter Wheat

Prairie Wheat Weekly: Small declines for wheat bids

Wheat prices show little movement

By Adam Peleshaty March 21, 2025

Most wheat prices in Western Canada during the week ended March 20, 2025 were slightly lower than those from the previous week.

Some wonder if prairie producers might be considering a return to organic canola, despite the problems caused by the proliferation of GM canola. Photo: Greg Berg

Canola, Crops, News, Reuters

North American biofuels sector contracts amid trade and policy uncertainty

By Ed White, Karl Plume, Reuters March 20, 2025

U.S. and Canadian biofuel companies are throttling back production to limit losses amid uncertainty over U.S. President Donald Trump's approach to green fuel subsidies and the potential for a worsening trade war.

Corn bids and offers have lately been far apart, with bids generally a dollar or more below the C$12 per bushel Ontario farmers would like to see. Photo: iStock/Getty Images

Barley, Corn, Livestock, Markets, Spring Wheat, Winter Wheat

Feed Grain Weekly: Prices stand still amidst tariff troubles

Politics driving feed grain markets

By Adam Peleshaty March 20, 2025

Tariffs from China and the United States have paralyzed feed grain markets in Western Canada according to Market Master Ltd. owner Susanne Leclerc from Edmonton.

Canola, Markets

ICE Canada Weekly: Canola approaching uncertainty

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm March 19, 2025

As canola futures try to regain the ground lost during the week of March 10, the longer term outlook for the oilseed is very unknown, according to risk advisor and trader John De Pape of The Trading Floor.

Editor's column, Soybeans

Editor’s Rant: No soy registrado

Why’s a potentially helpful nematicide for soy crops not up for registration here?

By Dave Bedard March 19, 2025

Surely a made-in-Canada nematicide would be a boon for Prairie soy growers before soybean cyst nematode gets any further foothold up here on the Prairies, right? Well, no.

The organic winter wheat and fall rye harvest is underway in Ontario. Photo: Allan Dawson/File

Corn, Markets, Soybeans, Spring Wheat, Winter Wheat

CBOT Weekly: Weather takes some attention off of tariffs

Forecasts, soil conditions affect prices

By Adam Peleshaty March 19, 2025

Weather and soil conditions have taken some of the focus off of tariffs at the Chicago Board of Trade during the week ended March 19, 2025.

Daily Network News

Feed Grain Weekly: Seasonal gains expected this spring

Klassen: Stronger barley prices weigh on feeder cattle values

Russia stops ammonium nitrate exports for one month amid global supply crunch

Crops