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A field of flax is harvested in southern Manitoba. Photo: Donna Gamache/File

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Most of Manitoba harvest wraps up for 2025

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm October 23, 2025

Manitoba Agriculture issued its final crop report of 2025, showing the overall provincewide harvest at 97 per cent complete as of Oct. 20. Nearly all major crops have finished combining, with 37 per cent of Manitoba’s sunflowers finished, plus 71 per cent of grain corn and small amounts of soybeans and potatoes left to do.

Barley, Corn, Markets, Spring Wheat, Winter Wheat

Feed Grains Weekly: Prices in holding pattern

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm October 23, 2025

Feed prices on the Canadian Prairies are likely to remain steady for the time being, said Brandon Motz, a manager at CorNine Commodities in Lacombe, Alta.

Heath MacDonald, Canada’s Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, met with Mexico’s Secretary of Agriculture and Rural Development, Julio Berdegué, to discuss bilateral relations and strengthen cooperation and trade ties between the two countries. Photo: Justin Tang/The Canadian Press via ZUMA Press

Beef Cattle, Canola, Hogs, News

New opportunities for Canadian goods in Mexico

By Jonah Grignon October 23, 2025

Agriculture minister’s trip to Mexico sees promotion of Canadian goods like beef and canola, with potential for more partnerships in the future

University of Manitoba research agronomist Kristen MacMillan discusses nodulation and nitrogen fixation in dry beans in front of her research plots in Carman, Man., in late July 2025. Photo: Don Norman

Crops, Features

Lower nitrogen rates in dry beans could pay off for farmers

Manitoba trials test whether farmers can apply less nitrogen to dry beans without losing yield, despite their typically poor nitrogen-fixing capacity

By Don Norman October 23, 2025

Manitoba research is testing whether reduced nitrogen fertilizer in dry beans can maintain yields while cutting costs and lowering greenhouse gas emissions.

Canola

ICE Weekly: No upside for canola if China situation continues: trader

By Adam Peleshaty October 22, 2025

Tony Tryhuk of RBC Dominion Securities said canola should stay rangebound if Canada’s trade war with China continues.

The Chicago Board of Trade building on May 28, 2018. (Harmantasdc/iStock Editorial/Getty Images)

Cereals, Corn, Markets, News, Soybeans, Spring Wheat, Winter Wheat

CBOT Weekly: China, shutdown guiding the market

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm October 22, 2025

The United States grain and oilseed markets are currently dominated by two factors, said Ryan Ettner, broker with Allendale Inc. in McHenry, Ill. Ettner said those are the absence of a trade deal with China and the ongoing United States government shutdown.

The Semi-arid Grassland Research Center was used in the International Drought Experiment as part of this research. Credit: CSU College of Natural Sciences

Crops, News, Weather

Prolonged drought causes unprecedented productivity loss: Study

By Colorado State University October 21, 2025

Colorado State University — Extreme, prolonged drought conditions in grasslands and shrublands would greatly limit the long-term health of crucial ecosystems that cover nearly half the planet, says new research published in the journal Science. “Climate change is bringing more severe and longer-lasting droughts to many locations around the world. Some ecosystems have shown resilience […] Read more

close up of a green plant leaf streaked brown with an infection

Cereals, Features

Researchers chase resistance to bacterial leaf streak in Prairie cereals

With symptoms that mimic tan spot and rust, BLS often goes unnoticed

By Don Norman October 20, 2025

Bacterial leaf streak is re-emerging in cereal crops on Canada’s Prairies. With no fungicides or resistant varieties available, researchers are testing genes for future control of the crop disease.

Demand for organic pulses had been steadily rising before the COVID-19 outbreak, but supply chains are prepared to meet the new demand. Photo: File

Markets, Pulses

Pulse Weekly: AAFC forecast stands pat

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm October 20, 2025

There were no changes to the pulse numbers for 2025/26 in the October supply and demand report from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada on Oct. 17. So far it has translated into Western Canadian pulse prices holding steady.

Markets, News, Reuters, Spring Wheat, Winter Wheat

Australia’s wheat production outlook improves as harvest begins

By Reuters October 20, 2025

Analysts have raised their estimates for Australia’s wheat harvest, a Reuters poll showed, as better-than-expected yields in western cropping regions boosted the production outlook despite losses caused by dry conditions in parts of the south.

GFM Network News

U.S. grains: Corn, soybeans higher in technical bounce; wheat firms

Bring focused approach to target systems, not producers says animal activist

Canada’s Food Price Report shows meat, pantry goods prices expected to rise “a lot” in 2026

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