Crops & Production Tips

Vyconic soybeans are expected to be released in Canada for the 2027 growing season.

New Bayer genetics to open up soybean herbicide tolerance

Bayer’s Vyconic genetics to be integrated with the company’s soybean varieties in coming years

By Jeff Melchior March 6, 2025

If all goes according to plan, by 2027 soybean farmers throughout Canada will have new soybean varieties with tolerance to five key herbicides. Bayer Crop Science Canada on Monday announced its Vyconic soybean trait set, calling it “a leap forward in weed control, enabling farmers to manage their fields with unparalleled flexibility.” Vyconic features tolerance […] Read more

Crops, News

VIDEO: Canadian Crops Convention offers hope on trade

Erin Gowriluk of the Canada Grain Council said tri-national co-operate remains alive outside government

By Glacier FarmMedia staff March 5, 2025

The Canadian Crops Convention kicked off in Edmonton today, under the shadow of U.S. tariffs and Canadian counter-tariffs.

File photo of a P.E.I. potato field against the backdrop of the Confederation Bridge. (Onepony/iStock/Getty Images)

Crops

CFIA’s 2024 potato wart survey comes back clean

By Geralyn Wichers March 5, 2025

Canadian Food Inspection Agency potato wart survey turns up no cases of the disease for 2024.

Corn, Markets, Soybeans, Spring Wheat, Winter Wheat

CBOT Weekly: Tariffs sow uncertainty in markets

U.S. levies create unpredictability in crop prices

By Adam Peleshaty March 5, 2025

Tariffs imposed by United States President Donald Trump have wreaked havoc on the Chicago Board of Trade according to Chicago-based agricultural strategist Terry Reilly.

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

Lentils, Markets, Pulses

China’s pulses to inch higher in 2024/25 says USDA attaché

Production has been shrinking

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm March 4, 2025

Total pulse production in China has been projected to increase slightly to 983,000 tonnes in 2024/25 compared to the 959,000 tonnes harvested the year before, according to the United States Department of Agriculture's attaché; in Beijing.

Photo: Victoria Popova/iStock/Getty Images

Lentils, Markets, Peas, Pulses

Pulse Weekly: Silence from India creates uncertainty

Are India’s levies on pulses back or not?

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm March 4, 2025

As the deadline for the government of India to further extend its tariff-free period for pea imports expired on Feb. 28, there has yet to be any statement regarding levies on the country's future pea imports.

Damage is seen from a rain-wrapped tornado at Cole, Okla., just south of Oklahoma City, on April 19, 2023, in a screengrab from a social media video. (Photo: Hans Duran video screengrab via Reuters)

Corn, Soybeans, Weather, Winter Wheat

Spring weather to dominate first half of March

Large parts of Argentina, Brazil to be dry

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm March 3, 2025

Be it the Canadian Prairies or the United States Midwest, spring-like weather is on its way for the first couple of weeks of March, said Drew Lerner, president and chief agricultural meteorologist for World Weather Inc. in Overland, Kan. Meanwhile, the dryness that has dominated parts of Argentina and Brazil is likely to continue for the next several weeks.

Crops, Weather, Wheat & Chaff

U.S. hail insurer looks northward

By Dave Bedard March 3, 2025

Farmers Mutual Hail Insurance Co. of Iowa has made its first venture outside the U.S., buying the 80 per cent of Prairie crop hail insurance firm Palliser Insurance it didn’t already own, for an undisclosed amount. FMH CEO Shannon Rutledge said in a release in February that Palliser’s “regional expertise, knowledge and accomplishments…will contribute to […] Read more

Crops, Features

Lambda-cy back in the toolbox

After two years reviewing updated data, regulators rule in favour of a popular pest control product

By Lee Hart February 28, 2025

Prairie farmers are welcoming the return of some important insecticides to the crop protection toolbox — although there’s still some headshaking over why use of the products was interrupted in the first place, and why it took two years for the federal Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) to re-evaluate registration data. Although producers such as […] Read more

AAFC slightly adjusted a few numbers in its November report.

Markets, Spring Wheat, Winter Wheat

Prairie Wheat Weekly: Spring wheat bids tumble

Tariff threats, wheat futures pressure bids

By Adam Peleshaty February 28, 2025

Tariff threats from United States President Donald Trump and declining U.S. wheat futures have pressured Western Canadian wheat bids during the week ended Feb. 27, 2025.

Daily Network News

‘We should always aim for free trade’: low tariffs not good enough say agriculture leaders on Hoekstra remarks

CBOT weekly outlook: Soybeans/corn awaiting acreage data

ICE Canada Weekly: More behind canola, soyoil than crude oil prices