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Drought conditions in Canada at June 30, 2018. (Agr.gc.ca)

Drought’s effects linger on Prairies

By GFM Network News July 27, 2018

CNS Canada — After a dry growing season last year in Western Canada, effects of the drought are still evident with news that most livestock producers won’t be doing a second cut of hay. “Pastures and hay fields didn’t get the moisture that they needed to really recharge over that winter period and get a […] Read more

Canadian drought conditions at March 31, 2018. (Drought Monitor map, Agr.gc.ca)

Prairie drought conditions improve

By GFM Network News April 12, 2018

CNS Canada — While drought conditions in Western Canada have improved following late-season snowfall, it isn’t a completely rosy picture just yet. “We have seen significant departures from normal in terms of precipitation (on the Prairies over) a long period. The winter hasn’t been above average (for precipitation) so there hasn’t been a whole lot […] Read more

Crops, Weather

Late-season snowstorm brings Prairies moisture

By GFM Network News March 8, 2018

CNS Canada — After a winter spent waiting for snow, farmers across the southern Prairies were happy when the forecast was right and Western Canada received a late winter snowstorm. “We’ve heard moisture’s coming before and it doesn’t show up or it goes around us. So when it started snowing and it started adding up […] Read more

Crops

More canola, wheat acres expected at pulses’ expense

By MarketsFarm Team, GFM Network News January 26, 2018

CNS Canada –– Canadian farmers will seed more wheat and canola in 2018 at the expense of pulse crops, according to Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s latest supply/demand estimates that include their first projections for the upcoming 2018-19 crop year. Total canola acres in 2018 are forecast at 24 million by the government agency, which would […] Read more

General, Markets, Reuters

Canada’s farm income to dip, but remain above average

By Reuters, GFM Network News February 17, 2017

Reuters — Canadian farmers’ incomes will decline seven per cent in 2017, falling for the second year in a row but remaining at above-average levels, the country’s agriculture department predicted on Friday. A drop in North American cattle and calf prices from record highs in 2015 is the main reason for the two-year dip, Agriculture […] Read more

Crops

Federal forecast sees more oilseed acres, less in grains

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News February 1, 2017

Canadian farmers are expected to cut back the summerfallow allocation and put more acres in production this spring, planting more of those acres in oilseeds and fewer in grains and pulses. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s market analysis group on Monday released an outlook for principal field crops which, assuming a return to average or trend […] Read more

Midge larvae inside a canola floret. Federal researchers have documented a new midge species in Prairie canola that differs significantly from the swede midge it was believed to be. (AAFC photo by Julie Soroka from CanolaWatch.org)

Canola, Crops

Anonymous midge appears in Prairie canola

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News January 30, 2017

Canola crops in northeastern Saskatchewan and east-central Alberta have run up against a potential pest problem so new it doesn’t yet have a name. Researchers with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, the University of Guelph and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency have reported a new species of midge damaging canola crops in those areas. The species […] Read more

A view from the community of Frelighsburg. (TourismeBrome-Missisquoi.ca)

Crops, Fruit/Vegetables

Federal research farm to reopen in Quebec

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News December 2, 2016

A federal experimental farm shuttered by budget cuts in 2012 is poised to reopen next year in Quebec’s Monteregie, for joint research work with other ag sector stakeholders. Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay on Friday announced Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s Frelighsburg Experimental Farm, about 80 km southeast of Montreal, will reopen in the spring, taking on […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Livestock

More culls, quarantines added to bovine TB probe

By GFM Network News November 28, 2016

Thousands more cattle and calves in southeastern Alberta are now booked to be destroyed, as a search continues for animals that had contact with one or more of six tuberculosis-infected Alberta cattle. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency on Monday announced its “herd” of animals known to have commingled with the TB-infected cattle has expanded to […] Read more

Crops, Machinery

Budget to boost ag research infrastructure, rural broadband

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News March 22, 2016

Funds to fix up Canada’s agricultural research stations and food safety labs and a new program to boost rural broadband coverage are among the nuggets for the farming sector in Tuesday’s federal budget. Overall, the Liberals’ first budget is based on $287.7 billion in revenues for 2016-17, against $291.4 billion in program expenses and $25.7 […] Read more

GFM Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle regain ground, hogs dip

U.S. grains: Soybean futures hover near 15-month high after China buys U.S. cargoes

ICE Canada Weekly: Canola could climb higher through to spring

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