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Feed weekly outlook: Spring weather may swing Prairie feed markets

MarketsFarm — Weather conditions have the potential to swing feed grain markets in Western Canada over the next few weeks, although prices generally remain steady for the time being. “Spring is here, and as the snow melts it creates mud, road bans and all that lovely stuff,” said Brandon Motz of CorNine Commodities in Lacombe, […] Read more






Joe had been walking his early-planted corn fields and noticed purpling of the leaves at the three-leaf stage across the entire field.

Crop advisor casebook: Purple corn leaves pose a puzzling problem

A Crop Advisor's Solution from the March 12, 2019 issue of Grainews

In late May of last year, I received a call from Joe, who owns a 1,500-acre mixed grain and dairy farm near Stonewall, Man. He said he’d been walking his early-planted corn fields and noticed purpling of the leaves at the three-leaf stage across the entire field. I drove out to Joe’s farm and immediately […] Read more


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USDA’s latest WASDE lacks ‘market-turning’ news

MarketsFarm — There was nothing in the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s latest world supply and demand estimates (WASDE) report that could have created major moves on commodities markets, according to an analyst. The report, issued Friday, “didn’t give us any kind of a market-turning type news,” said Steve Georgy, president of Allendale Inc. in McHenry, […] Read more




Cracked soybeans enter a SunOpta soymilk processing plant at Modesto, California. (Video screengrab from SunOpta.com via YouTube)

SunOpta sheds U.S. Midwest organic corn, soy business

Organic food firm SunOpta Inc. has stepped out of the U.S. organic corn and soybean business in a $66.5 million deal with Minnesota-based organic startup Pipeline Foods. Mississauga-based SunOpta announced Monday it closed a deal with Pipeline last Friday for the Canadian firm’s organic and “specialty” soy and corn operations, which include five plants in […] Read more