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Grain handle down in CP’s ‘best-ever’ fourth quarter

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News January 19, 2018

U.S. income tax reform and significant increases in non-grain traffic more than offset a dip in Canadian Pacific Railway’s grain handle in its fourth quarter of 2017. Calgary-based CP on Thursday reported net income of $984 million on $1.713 billion in gross revenues in what it described as its “best-ever” fourth quarter, up from $384 […] Read more

GSI’s FlexWave inflatable liner pushes grain toward an auger trough, eliminating the need to manually enter bins to clean them out.

Machinery

GSI introduces FlexWave

Inflatable liners clean out bin floors

By Mark Moore November 27, 2017

Imagine an easier way to clean out flat-bottom grain bins. GSI was demonstrating its new FlexWave technology in August at the U.S. Farm Progress Show in Illinois as an entirely new and easy way to do exactly that. According to the company, FlexWave is a new alternative to the common grain bin sweeps, brooms and […] Read more

Columns, Marketing, Markets

Time to re-evaluate your grain marketing plan

With the crop in the bin, should you be selling now or holding out for higher prices?

By Brian Wittal October 25, 2017

This year’s fall weather was exceptional and most harvesting was done in record time. The biggest surprise I heard from producers is that yields were well above expectations. Many said they figured the yield monitors on their combines were out to lunch when they saw the numbers! This brings a good problem: most producers, even […] Read more

Columns, Marketing, Markets

Post-harvest marketing plan time

With your crop in the bin, it’s time to get to the work of grain marketing

By Brian Wittal October 2, 2017

Your location will have had a big impact to your harvest outcome this year. Weather issues stressed crops across the Prairies. Whether you had a bumper crop or a poor crop, you need to review your marketing plan. This is the critical time when prices and trends can be set for the better part of […] Read more

Crops, News

Grain buyers want you thinking about residues before you harvest

It hasn’t happened yet, but exceeding pesticide residue limits on exported grain could cause a ‘big problem’

By Jennifer Blair August 25, 2017

Grain growers are again being urged to heed the labels on their pre-harvest pesticides and avoid going over maximum residue limits. “We’re selling our crops mostly into export, and our exports markets are very sensitive to residual levels of different crop protection products that we use,” said Alberta Wheat Commission chair Kevin Auch, who farms […] Read more

Jitendra Paliwal (left) adjusts the antennae on the 3D electromagnetic imaging system at the U of M’s grain storage research laboratory while Paul Card (right) watches.

Canola, Cereals, Crops, Pulses

Detecting grain spoilage in the bin before it starts

An adaptation of cancer-screening technology offers a better and safer way to check for grain bin moisture, with a bonus of theft detection

By Ron Friesen August 23, 2017

An electromagnetic imaging technique originally designed to detect breast cancer tumours is now being adapted for a totally different use — locating spoiled grain in bins. The research project at the University of Manitoba uses electromagnetic imaging (EMI) to create a 3D profile of a bin, showing pockets of moisture which can overheat and spoil. […] Read more

Crops, Reuters

U.S. agribusiness deal not a priority for Glencore

By Reuters, GFM Network News March 28, 2017

Lausanne | Reuters — Glencore does not see further consolidation in agricultural commodities as straightforward and views a U.S. acquisition as less crucial than in the past, the group’s agriculture chief said Tuesday. The diversified trading and mining group had pointed to the possibility of making bolt-on acquisitions after posting improved results for 2016 and […] Read more

Myron Krahn had record or near-record yields of corn and soybean with high quality on his farm near Carman, Manitoba.

Crops, Features

A goldilocks year, and few found it ‘just right’

Early winter, in the middle of harvest, definitely took its toll

By Lee Hart March 7, 2017

Here’s what you learn when you ask a sampling of western Canadian farmers how 2016 went and what’s ahead for the coming seeding season: Corn and soybeans did very well in 2016. Looking ahead, disease pressure on cereal and pulse crops could change the cropping landscape. An early spring would be a blessing considering there […] Read more

Walter Moebis took this photo of parked empty grain cars near Rycroft, Alta., on Jan. 19.

Cereals, News

Too many grain cars left out in the cold?

Ag Transport Coalition reports CP rail car performance drops

By Lisa Guenther February 22, 2017

Walter Moebis came across a strange sight while visiting family near Rycroft, Alta., in mid-January. A line of Canadian National (CN) hopper cars, which he estimated to be four to five miles long, sat on the tracks west of Rycroft. Moebis’ father-in-law said the cars had been there a week or so earlier. When Walter […] Read more

Crops

China to let land lie fallow as grain stocks surge

By GFM Network News November 4, 2015

Beijing/Reuters – China’s ruling Communist Party has for the first time proposed to let land lie fallow in some areas to ease pressure on exhausted water and land resources while grain stocks are near record levels, state media reported on Wednesday. After years of excessive cultivation and bumper grain harvests, China is facing severe shortages […] Read more

GFM Network News

Ukraine’s farms once fed billions but now its soil is starving

Argentine farmers bag last fields of a dream wheat season

U.S. livestock: CME cattle tick lower in thin pre-holiday trade

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