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Limited selling, buying leave feed barley flat in Lethbridge

By GFM Network News April 5, 2016

CNS Canada — Lethbridge’s feed barley market is sitting stagnant, as feedlots quit hand-to-mouth buying and farmers hold onto their grain. Farmers who stored their feed barley post-harvest don’t want to sell at current prices, despite relative strength, said Jared Seitz, trade manager for Agfinity at Stony Plain, Alta. “It’s not so much that prices […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Soy dips as farmers are expected to expand plantings

By GFM Network News April 5, 2016

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures on Tuesday extended a setback from the nearly eight-month highs reached a day earlier, as wet weather fueled projections that farmers will plant more fields with the oilseed than previously expected. Rainy, cool conditions in the U.S. South and Midwest could prompt growers to switch one million to […] Read more

Crops, Reuters

CPP reported in talks for stake in Glencore agribusiness

By Reuters, GFM Network News April 5, 2016

Reuters — Commodity trading and mining firm Glencore is in advanced talks to sell a stake in its agricultural business to the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB), the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The CPPIB would take a stake of up to 40 per cent, valuing the business at […] Read more

Saskatchewan Agriculture Minister Lyle Stewart, shown here at Ag in Motion in 2015, plans to leave the post following a recent cancer diagnosis. (File photo by Lisa Guenther)

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Saskatchewan ag minister, ag critic return in election

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News April 5, 2016

Saskatchewan’s agriculture minister and opposition ag critic both easily held their ridings Monday night as the governing Saskatchewan Party completed its electoral hat trick. By about 1 a.m. Tuesday, Premier Brad Wall’s Saskatchewan Party had won 51 of 61 ridings, for a third straight majority mandate coming out of Monday’s general election. The opposition New […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters, Soybeans

China’s farmers switch to soy amid corn market reform

By GFM Network News April 4, 2016

Reuters — Wang Zhonghai, a 49-year-old farmer in China’s top corn producing province of Heilongjiang, plans to switch 80 per cent of his land to cultivate soybeans this year as the government ends a near-decade-old corn price support scheme. China announced last week it will stop its corn stockpiling program and allow markets to set […] Read more

Cereals, Crops, Features

Kiwi secrets to growing record wheat

This New Zealand farmer has grown wheat yielding 232 bushels per acre

By Lilian Schaer April 4, 2016

An agronomist from New Zealand who helped a grower in that country set world wheat yield records was a guest speaker at this year’s Southwest Agricultural Conference in Ridgetown, Ont. According to Graeme Jones, arable business manager with PGG Wrightson Seeds, the recipe has three key ingredients: environment, management and genetics. Although the current wheat […] Read more

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VIDEO: The potential for post-harvest weed control in Western Canada

From the International Weed Resistance Summit

By Lisa Guenther April 4, 2016

With machines like the Harrington Seed Destructor grabbing international headlines, many in Canada wonder whether post-harvest weed control could be the answer to herbicide resistance. Breanne Tidemann, a Ph.D. student at the University of Alberta, decided to find out. Lisa Guenther caught up with Tidemann at the Herbicide Resistance Summit in Saskatoon this March to […] Read more

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VIDEO: Herbicide resistance spreading in Western Canada

From the International Weed Resistance Summit

By Lisa Guenther April 4, 2016

At the Herbicide Resistance Summit this past March, Dr. Hugh Beckie presented the results of the latest weed survey in Saskatchewan. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada researchers hadn’t finished screening for herbicide resistance. But Beckie expects to see herbicide-resistant weeds on over 50 per cent of cultivated land in Saskatchewan, he told Grainews reporter Lisa Guenther. […] Read more

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VIDEO: Canada ranks high in global herbicide resistance ratings

From the International Weed Resistance Summit

By Lisa Guenther April 4, 2016

Saskatoon hosted the International Weed Resistance Summit this March. Speakers at the conference delivered a dose of reality on the growing herbicide resistance program. One of those speakers was Dr. Ian Heap, who leads the International Survey of Herbicide-Resistant Weeds. Grainews reporter Lisa Guenther teamed up with Robin Booker of The Western Producer to cover the […] Read more

Providence Grain’s elevator at Marengo, Sask., west of Kindersley. (ProvidenceGrain.ca)

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U.S. trader Lansing takes bigger stake in Providence

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News April 4, 2016

Prairie grain handler Providence Grain Group is set to add some merchandising bench strength as its silent partner takes a bigger stake. Kansas-based Lansing Trade Group, which maintains grain trading desks in Western Canada, announced in late March it will increase its stake in Alberta-based Providence Grain to 38 per cent, up from about 12 […] Read more

Alberta Crop Report: Higher-than-average yields expected

U.S. livestock: Tight cattle supply helps CME futures rebound from collapse

U.S. grains: Soy futures post weekly loss on expectations for big U.S. crop

GFM Network News

Alberta Crop Report: Higher-than-average yields expected

U.S. livestock: Tight cattle supply helps CME futures rebound from collapse

U.S. grains: Soy futures post weekly loss on expectations for big U.S. crop

Crops

Limited selling, buying leave feed barley flat in Lethbridge

U.S. grains: Soy dips as farmers are expected to expand plantings

CPP reported in talks for stake in Glencore agribusiness

Saskatchewan ag minister, ag critic return in election

China’s farmers switch to soy amid corn market reform

Kiwi secrets to growing record wheat

VIDEO: The potential for post-harvest weed control in Western Canada

VIDEO: Herbicide resistance spreading in Western Canada

VIDEO: Canada ranks high in global herbicide resistance ratings

U.S. trader Lansing takes bigger stake in Providence

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