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Klassen: Feedlot operators become cautious on purchases

By Jerry Klassen May 13, 2025

For the week ending May 10, Western Canadian feeder cattle markets traded steady to $5 higher on average. Quality packages of lighter calves were priced $10-$15 above week ago levels. Many auction barns are only holding sales every two or three weeks at this time of year with limited numbers on offer. This made the market hard to define in certain weight categories.

Crops, Features, Spring Wheat

Fungicide, glyphosate don’t hurt your hard red wheat quality

In terms of grain quality, this University of Manitoba-led research finds weather and variety matter most

By Don Norman May 9, 2025

The results of this study may not seem all that surprising: everyone expected weather and genotype to be the most impactful factors on wheat quality. But this research hadn’t been done before, so it offers up the good news that fungicides and glyphosate aren’t making things worse.

Barley, Canola, Cereals, Corn, Forages, Hay, Markets, News, Oats, Peas, Pulses, Soybeans, Spring Wheat, Winter Wheat

Seeding in Manitoba picking up the pace

Most fields still have good soil moisture

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm May 7, 2025

Overall spring planting in Manitoba reached eight per cent complete as of May 6, with some areas of the province much further along, the latest provincial crop report said.

Weather

Prairie forecast: Hot east, cool west

Forecast issued May 7, covering May 7 to 14, 2025

By Daniel Bezte May 7, 2025

We saw a strong ridge of high pressure build in last week, which brought daytime highs into the low thirties across parts of the eastern Prairies. Once the ridge collapsed, cooler air moved back in. Well, it looks like we can expect another cycle of building and collapsing ridges. Then, starting on the weekend, the weather pattern should become more energetic thanks to a strong trough of low pressure forecasted to develop off the West Coast.

File photo of cattle in a Kansas feedlot. (BeyondImages/E+/Getty Images)

Livestock, Markets

Klassen: Feeder market consolidates as supplies decrease

By Jerry Klassen May 6, 2025

For the week ending May 2, Western Canadian feeder cattle markets were relatively unchanged compared to seven days earlier. The heifer discount to steers continues to narrow. Steady buying interest from Ontario was noted in Manitoba and certain locations in Saskatchewan.

Features, Potatoes

Powdery scab a puzzling potato problem

Biosecurity, such as avoiding the use of manure from livestock that ate infected potatoes, is a must

By Miranda Leybourne May 1, 2025

Powdery scab, caused by Spongospora subterranea, thrives in cool, moist conditions and can significantly impact potato crops by forming lesions on tubers and galls on roots.

Canola, Cereals, Crops, Markets, Oats, Pasture, Peas, Soybeans, Spring Wheat, Winter Wheat

First Manitoba crop report says seeding slightly ahead of pace

Soil moisture conditions very from region to region

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm April 30, 2025

Spring planting in Manitoba registered at three per cent complete in the provincial agriculture department’s first crop report of 2025. Manitoba Agriculture released the report on April 29, noting planting progress was two points ahead of the five-year average.

Weather

Prairie forecast: Here comes the summery weather

Forecast issued April 30, covering April 30 to May 7, 2025

By Daniel Bezte April 30, 2025

Well, one week is up and as I pointed out in last week's forecast, the weather pattern still looks like it is going to flip from a cool-ish spring regime right into a summer-like pattern. This flip should happen over the next few days.

Demand for organic pulses had been steadily rising before the COVID-19 outbreak, but supply chains are prepared to meet the new demand. Photo: File

Lentils, Markets, Peas, Pulses

Pulse Weekly: Seeding of Manitoba pulses getting started

Specialist expects similar acres to last year

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm April 29, 2025

In Manitoba, the planting of pulse crops was barely underway during the week of April 28, said Dennis Lange, industry development pulse specialist for the province's agriculture department.

Beef Cattle, Livestock, Markets

Klassen: Higher packer bids enhance feeder complex

By Jerry Klassen April 29, 2025

For the week ending April 26, Western Canadian feeder cattle markets traded $3 to $5 higher compared to seven days earlier.

Alberta crop conditions improve: report

U.S. grains: Corn sets contract lows on expectations for big US crop

U.S. livestock: Cattle strength continues

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