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Louise Carduner marks a kernel and then counts the rows during a Manitoba-Saskatchewan one-woman corn crop tour.

Corn crop estimates, the old-school way

Apps and satellite services have digitalized the job, but many still prefer to estimate crops up close and personal

By Ed White October 25, 2024

Glacier FarmMedia — When it comes to estimating corn crops, Louise Carduner knows there’s an app for that. But she isn’t about to use it. “These are the nicest ears I’ve seen,” Carduner burst out enthusiastically while stripping a fat cob of corn in a field bordering the Red River just north of the U.S. […] Read more

A selection of Proven Seed corn varieties — including PV 60474RIB, due out for the 2025 growing season, at right — at Nutrien Ag Solutions' plot at Ag in Motion in July.

Corn, Corn Production Guide, Guides

Select the right corn hybrids for your fields

Consider a hybrid that has the most genetic potential to meet yield goals while managing production stressors

By Jeanine Moyer October 25, 2024

Glacier FarmMedia — Corn seed is arguably one of a farmer’s greatest input investments each year, making the selection of the right hybrid mix an increasingly important task. “The most yield potential a crop has is when the seed goes into the ground,” says Paul Sullivan, CCA with Sullivan Agro Inc. “After that, stresses like […] Read more

Dry matter intakes, finished weights, average daily gains and gain:feed of steers fed a standard barley-based control diet were not statistically different from those of the steers fed any of the three corn diets in a recent comparison study.

Corn Production Guide, Finishers, Guides

Corn in western Canadian feedlot diets

The production risk still must be bred out of Prairie-grown corn before it can reach its full potential in feedlots

By Reynold Bergen October 25, 2024

Corn acreage is expanding across Canada. There are about 25 acres of corn for every acre of barley in Ontario and Quebec, where temperatures, day length and moisture allow predictable corn yields and feed quality. There are around eight acres of barley for every acre of corn in the Prairies, although ambitious breeding efforts are […] Read more

Markets

Prairie feed grains market watching U.S. corn

By Phil Franz-Warkentin October 24, 2024

Rising corn prices in the United States could provide support for feed grains in Western Canada, although the current price spread remains conducive for imports of U.S. corn into Canadian feed channels.

Crops, Markets

Manitoba harvest nearly done, only corn/sunflowers left

By Phil Franz-Warkentin October 24, 2024

Harvest operations across Manitoba are nearly complete, with only sunflowers and corn still left to come off the fields, according to the latest provincial crop report for the week ended Oct. 22.

Detail from the front of the CBOT building in Chicago. (Vito Palmisano/iStock/Getty Images)

Corn, Markets, Soybeans, Spring Wheat, Winter Wheat

CBOT Weekly: Corn, soybeans rising, wheat slipping

By Adam Peleshaty October 23, 2024

Corn and soybean prices rose at the Chicago Board of Trade during the week ended Oct. 23, 2024. However, wheat prices went lower during the same week.

Markets

Fund short position in canola dips for fourth week

By Phil Franz-Warkentin October 21, 2024

The net fund short position in canola declined for the fourth week in a row in mid-October, according to the latest Commitments of Traders report from the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).

Photo: Kelsey Pangborn/iStock/Getty Images

Barley, Markets, Spring Wheat, Winter Wheat

Feed Grain Weekly: Less activity before corn deliveries

By Adam Peleshaty October 18, 2024

Despite a lack of activity in the feed grain markets, prices for feed barley and feed grain are trending lower, according to a grain broker from Edmonton.

The Chicago Board of Trade building on May 28, 2018. (Harmantasdc/iStock Editorial/Getty Images)

Corn, Markets, Soybeans, Spring Wheat, Winter Wheat

CBOT Weekly: Trade too low on U.S. corn, soybeans ahead of S/D report

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm October 9, 2024

Estimates for U.S. corn and soybeans are perhaps too low and wheat prices are set to increase due to smaller global supplies.

Barley, Canola, Cereals, Corn, Crops, Markets, News, Oats, Peas, Pulses, Spring Wheat, Winter Wheat

Canadian Grain Commission releases August export report

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm October 8, 2024

The Canadian Grain Commission's monthly report on grain exports for August 2024 - the first month of the 2024/25 marketing year.

GFM Network News

Canola industry pumped about 45Z clean fuel ruling in U.S.

U.S. grains: Chicago corn, soy prices recover on updated biofuel guidance

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures higher on tightening cattle supply

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