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Canola swaths on my  Dundurn farm August 31, 2015 .

Still needed: canola combine

There is still a case for more research on combining speed, so we don’t lose valuable product

By Les Henry October 15, 2015

In the January 9, 2012, issue this column did a piece about combining canola and the need to adjust speed to the crop conditions and combine separation capacity. To recap, we said that in a 70 bushel canola crop in fall 2011 at Annaheim, Sask., it was necessary to go 1.5 m.p.h. to capture all […] Read more

The community has been hit “very hard” by a farm accident that killed three young sisters, said Sgt. Mike Numan of the Rocky Mountain House RCMP. (Jennifer Blair photo)

Canola, Crops, Machinery

Three young Alta. sisters lost to grain truck mishap

By Jennifer Blair, GFM Network News October 14, 2015

Rocky Mountain House | AFE — A community in central Alberta is in mourning following the deaths of three young sisters in a grain truck mishap on Tuesday night. “This is hitting us all very hard. Frontline responders are routinely called out to sad situations, but things are always harder when there’s children involved,” said […] Read more

(File photo courtesy Canola Council of Canada)

Canola, Crops, Machinery

Three Alta. girls smothered in truckload of canola

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News October 14, 2015

Two 11-year-old girls and a 13-year-old girl have died after being smothered in a truckload of canola on a farm in western Alberta, according to RCMP and local media. Rocky Mountain House RCMP said late Tuesday they were called at about 6:15 that evening to a farm near Withrow, about 60 km west of Red […] Read more

Black discolouration in the stem’s cross section is a sign of blackleg.

Canola, Crops

Scouting for blackleg in canola

By Lisa Guenther October 13, 2015

The Canola Council of Canada recommends blackleg scouting a week or two before straight cutting or swathing. Don’t wait more than a week after harvest, the Council advises, or plants may be too decomposed to pick out symptoms. While scouting, pull plants and clip stems below ground level. Black discolouration in the stem’s cross section […] Read more

Canola seed, oil and meal. (Photo courtesy Canola Council of Canada)

Canola, Crops, Markets

Weekly canola crush hits new record

By GFM Network News October 9, 2015

CNS Canada –– Canola oil is flowing freely in Western Canada, with domestic processors crushing more canola in a single week than ever before, according to the latest data from the Canadian Oilseed Processors Association (COPA). The weekly canola crush hit 184,493 tonnes during the week ended Wednesday, which is more than 10,000 tonnes above […] Read more

The bronzing within the crop wasn’t occurring just in the low areas, but was happening on slopes and in higher areas of the field as well.

Canola, Crops

Crop Advisor’s Casebook: Ailing canola crop a mystery

A Crop Advisor’s Solution from the September 30, 2014 issue of Grainews

By Jason Sauchuk October 5, 2015

Last June I received a call from Bill, a grain farmer with 8,000 acres of barley, wheat and canola in Waskatenau, Alta. Bill had sprayed his canola crop with a herbicide before going away for a weekend of fishing. When he returned home, he was alarmed to see patches within the field with damaged, stunted […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Canola, Cereals, Crops, Fruit/Vegetables, Hogs, Markets

Dawson: Ag exporters applaud historic TPP deal

By Allan Dawson, GFM Network News October 5, 2015

Export-oriented Canadian farmers are giving the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement reached in Atlanta on Monday two thumbs up. The deal, which remains to be debated in Canada’s House of Commons and could take more than a year to be ratified by all 12 member countries, will see tariffs on Canadian products in those markets eliminated […] Read more

(Tkeban Jahannes photo courtesy AtlantaGa.gov via Flickr)

General, Markets

Producer groups lobby for TPP deal in Atlanta

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News September 29, 2015

Several Canadian grain and livestock commodity groups have representatives in Atlanta this week pressing for federal negotiators to keep Canada in play on the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Trade ministers from the 12 TPP countries — also including the U.S., Mexico, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Chile, Peru, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei Darussalam — are meeting in […] Read more

In provinces such as Manitoba and Ontario, fusarium head blight is now a given.

Crops

17 crop disease prevention strategies

Fungicides are key, but there are many other parts to an effective long-term strategy

By Patty Milligan September 25, 2015

As you can tell by the fact that this article includes 17, yes 17, strategies for crop diseases prevention, there are no quick fixes. Crop disease prevention is going to be an ongoing struggle. 1. Use multiple strategies: Understand that multiple strategies are the way to go. There isn’t one big hammer, rather lots of little hammers with […] Read more

North American weather conditions have been a little more extreme.

Columns, Crops, Markets

We’re in weather market madness

Weather drives grain markets. And this year, weather is also driving farmers to distraction

By Brian Wittal September 16, 2015

We have had another summer of weather extremes. It started in May with dry weather across the Prairies and parts of the U.S. plains, and excessive rains across large U.S. grain-growing regions. June brought hot, dry spells across the Prairies. Then we topped it off with rain, hail and tornados in July — almost the prefect recipe […] Read more

Daily Network News

Southern California honeybees show resistance to varroa mites

Pulse Weekly: SaskPulse optimistic despite input, crop price concerns

Canadian aquaculture should be classed as agriculture, industry groups say

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