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Hit the mark with your pulse and cereal fungicides

By David Forster August 1, 2017

When getting set to apply a fungicide to pulses and cereals, remember that disease prevention and suppression is your main goal. Fungicides need to be applied on target in order to be effective, which is why you should keep water volumes and travel speeds top-of-mind. Use the highest registered water volume while lowering your travel […] Read more

Poorly-treated wheat seed, inoculated with f. graminearum. Photo: Lisa Guenther

Cereals, Crops

Know how to identify these three seedling diseases

By Lisa Guenther June 23, 2017

Seedling diseases can weaken cereals, leaving plants susceptible to other stresses, Brittney Kroeker told attendees at Bayer’s SeedGrowth Solutions Expo in Saskatoon this spring. Kroeker went through some of the top seedling diseases in cereals. Here are her tips for identifying three seedling disease in cereals.

Believe it or not, this is a soil test in progress and it can tell you a lot about the health of your soil. Photo: Staff

Crops

VIDEO: Underground undies measuring the health of soil

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News April 20, 2017

Are you bold enough to soil your undies? The Soil Conservation Council of Canada (SCCC) is and it recently kicked off National Soil Conservation Week by burying several pairs of men’s cotton underwear up to the waistband. After 60 days in six inches of soil, what will it all mean? A healthy soil will show that the […] Read more

Cereals, Crops, Reuters

Post tucks into British breakfast cereal Weetabix

By GFM Network News April 18, 2017

London/Shanghai/New York | Reuters — Post Holdings is buying leading British breakfast cereal brand Weetabix from China’s Bright Food Group for 1.4 billion pounds (C$2.4 billion), giving the U.S.-focused company a European base on which to build. The combination will help Post’s existing brands, which include Honey Bunches of Oats and Grape-Nuts, to expand overseas, […] Read more

Crops, Weather

Trade sees record Canadian canola acres as possibility

By GFM Network News April 17, 2017

CNS Canada — Canadian farmers could be set to seed record-large canola acres in 2017, while wheat area is generally expected to be down on the year when Statistics Canada releases its first survey-based acreage estimates of the year on Friday. From a purely economic standpoint, “canola is historically the commodity that pays the bills,” […] Read more

Cereals, Crops, Wheat & Chaff

Keep your cereal stand one step ahead of wireworms

By Mark Mercier March 21, 2017

Wireworms can quickly weave a destructive path through your cereal stand. Knowing what symptoms to look for can help you identify and take steps to protect your crop from this destructive pest. You might start off by seeing bare patches that can be small, one or two-metre gaps, or larger areas where you have thin […] Read more

Crops, Markets

Seven deadly sins of grain marketing

By Angela Lovell March 10, 2017

Brian Voth has been telling producers about the “seven deadly sins of grain marketing” for several years, and although the catchy title gets them through the door to listen to him, the advice they go away with is invaluable. “What I talk about is, essentially, how to make marketing plans by doing it in reverse, […] Read more

Cereals, Crops, Features

Interest in falling numbers on the rise

Wheat buyers want the numbers; the AWC wants falling numbers in grading systems

By Geoff Geddes February 24, 2017

With apologies to accountants and statisticians, numbers don’t always tell the story. Falling numbers, however, are growing in popularity with farmers around the globe. In an industry where success is equal parts calculation and perspiration, more and more producers are counting on falling numbers to help drive their success. “Falling number is a widely used […] Read more

Barley, News

Recommended barley varieties for 2017

By Leeann Minogue February 8, 2017

The Canadian Malt Barley Technical Centre has released its annual list of recommended barley seed varieties for the 2017 planting season. There are several two-row varieties on the CMBTC’s list (see table below), but only three recommended varieties of six-row barley. FP Genetics distributes pedigreed seed for two of these varieties, Legacy and Tradition. Canterra […] Read more

Editor's column, Wheat & Chaff

Editor’s Column: Bound up by resolutions

By Leeann Minogue February 7, 2017

A few unhappy farmers probably went home from the commodity organizations annual general meetings in Saskatoon this January singing Rolling Stones tunes to themselves. (1) During this year’s Saskatchewan commodity group AGMs, the chairs of two levy-funded commodity groups explained to their members why they’d decided not to take action on contentious resolutions passed at […] Read more

GFM Network News

B.C. ostriches culled, CFIA confirms

U.S. livestock: Cattle, hogs end week on high note

U.S. grains: Soybeans bounce as Chinese demand assessed, wheat drops

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