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Keeping canola out of your soybean fields

Volunteer canola:  Western Canada’s fourth  most abundant weed

By Melanie Epp April 10, 2018

Volunteer canola is thriving in Western Canada. In the 1970s, volunteer canola was the 18th most abundant weed. Today it is the fourth most common in Western Canada. Volunteer canola is especially problematic where herbicide-resistant crops, like soybeans, are added to the rotation. Volunteer canola is a unique weed because it is derived from growing […] Read more

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CBOT weekly outlook: Soybeans wade through turbulent trade waters

By GFM Network News April 5, 2018

CNS Canada — Soybean futures on the Chicago Board of Trade suffered sharp losses Wednesday after China said it would slap a 25 per cent tariff on soybean imports in retaliation for U.S. sanctions that had been placed on it. The dominant May contract plummeted 55 cents to $9.83 a bushel, before bargain-hunters stepped in […] Read more

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China retaliates for U.S. tariffs, slaps duties on soybeans

By GFM Network News April 4, 2018

Beijing/Washington | Reuters — China quickly hit back on Wednesday at Trump administration plans to slap tariffs on US$50 billion in Chinese goods, retaliating with a list of similar duties on key U.S. imports including soybeans, planes, cars, whiskey and chemicals. The speed with which the trade struggle between Washington and Beijing is ratcheting up […] Read more

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CBOT weekly outlook: Shocker USDA reports leave questions for traders

By GFM Network News March 29, 2018

CNS Canada — Two much anticipated reports from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) sent markets soaring and left traders speechless in the last trading day before the Easter holiday. USDA released its quarterly grain stocks and prospective plantings reports Thursday at 11 a.m. CT. Traders had been expecting corn area to be at 80.3 […] Read more

A coffee planter shows his coffee plantation in a farm in Sao Desiderio, Bahia state, Brazil on March 21. (Photo: Reuters/Roberto Samora)

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Coffee may profit more than soy in Brazil’s new farming frontier

By GFM Network News March 27, 2018

Luis Eduardo Magalhaes, Brazil | Reuters –– Farmers tending vast, flat soy and cotton fields that spread as far as the eye can see in northeastern Brazil are finding that coffee crops might provide higher profits in the country’s agricultural frontier. More coffee farms are being developed in the western part of Bahia state, which […] Read more

(Mark Wilson photo courtesy Louis Dreyfus Co.)

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China should target U.S. soybeans, former finance minister says

By Reuters, GFM Network News March 25, 2018

Beijing | Reuters –– The response by China’s commerce ministry to the latest U.S trade measures is too weak, and should target U.S. soybeans, former Chinese finance minister Lou Jiwei said on Saturday. The commerce ministry on Friday unveiled a plan to levy additional duties on up to US$3 billion of U.S. imports including fruit […] Read more

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CBOT weekly outlook: Soy, corn market attention shifts north

By GFM Network News March 21, 2018

CNS Canada — Soybean and corn futures at the Chicago Board of Trade moved lower over the past week, but stabilized at those lows as attention shifts from weather concerns in Argentina to planting intentions in North America. Rains in Argentina over the past weekend helped ease dryness concerns there somewhat and caused soybeans and […] Read more

Symptoms will first appear at the base of the plant and will continue upwards as potassium moves up  the plant to support new growth.

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Manitoba soybeans not responding to K?

Soybean potassium fertility trials leave researchers scratching their heads

By Melanie Epp March 19, 2018

While it has generally been known that Manitoba’s lighter-textured soils are low in potassium, it took soybeans to really bring the issue to light. With soybeans taking up more and more acres, researchers felt it was time to conduct potassium fertility trials. While preliminary results are in, results are mixed. More data will be needed […] Read more

There’s a perception in the farming community that soil erosion and degradation are in the past, but that simply isn't the case.

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Don’t forget lessons of the Dirty 30s

Although there’s a perception that dust is past, tillage erosion is on the rise in Manitoba

By Julienne Isaacs March 19, 2018

It seemed like the beginning of the end of the world: friends and neighbours dying of “dust pneumonia” and massive dust storms sweeping the land. These are some of the recollections of people who were alive in the “Dirty 30s,” recorded for an oral history project by Daryl Ritchison, interim director of the North Dakota […] Read more

Container ships pass through locks on the Panama Canal. (CIA.gov)

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Brazilian grain growers explore increased use of Panama Canal

By GFM Network News March 15, 2018

Sao Paulo | Reuters — Brazilian farmers in top soy state Mato Grosso signed a memorandum of understanding with the Panama Canal Authority to evaluate ways to cut transportation costs and boost Brazilian grain volumes using the waterway, the authority’s chief administrator said. The canal’s administration is looking to increase its participation in rising Brazilian […] Read more

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Keeping canola out of your soybean fields

CBOT weekly outlook: Soybeans wade through turbulent trade waters

China retaliates for U.S. tariffs, slaps duties on soybeans

CBOT weekly outlook: Shocker USDA reports leave questions for traders

Coffee may profit more than soy in Brazil’s new farming frontier

China should target U.S. soybeans, former finance minister says

CBOT weekly outlook: Soy, corn market attention shifts north

Manitoba soybeans not responding to K?

Don’t forget lessons of the Dirty 30s

Brazilian grain growers explore increased use of Panama Canal

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