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Editor’s Rant: The customer is always right

By Dave Bedard March 20, 2024

Hi, my name’s Dave and I’m a Cheerios consumer. So I’ve got to admit, any news article that name-drops Cheerios grabs my attention much more effectively than an article mentioning, say, Taylor Swift. (I’ll stop here briefly as a public service to warn that if you somehow happened on this article by accident, that last […] Read more

General

Chlormequat found in oat foods prompts U.S. lawsuits

Class action suits rely on Environmental Working Group scientists who claim much lower safe limit than EPA

By Robert Arnason, GFM Network News March 8, 2024

Chlormequat use in oat production has prompted two class action lawsuits in California against General Mills and Quaker Oats.

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Oat millers recommend not using Manipulator

Farmers advised the juice may not be worth the squeeze on heels of contamination report

By Robert Arnason, GFM Network News February 29, 2024

Oat millers in Canada are telling growers that a plant growth regulator isn't effective on oats, so farmers probably don't need to use it.

Crops, General

Oat producers call chlormequat report fear mongering

Environmental Working Group blames Canadian producers for residues of plant growth regulator found in oat products

By Robert Arnason, GFM Network News February 26, 2024

The Prairie Oat Growers Association is pushing back against allegations that Canadian oats are contaminated with chemicals from a plant growth regulator.

A reference genome for oats will help breeders develop a more targeted approach to improving characteristics such as disease tolerance and yield.

Cereals Guide 2023

Sequenced genome makes good reading for oat breeding

The resulting roadmap should help researchers work through oats’ genetic complexity

By Ralph Pearce January 18, 2024

Glacier FarmMedia – While it has its defenders among those who grow oats for food, feed and seed markets, oat production often goes undervalued in a land where canola and wheat are kings. That’s why the recent creation of the world’s first reference genome for oats is a significant step toward a more targeted approach […] Read more

General

Court remedy sought for unfulfilled contracts

Sask. company claims equipment breakdown at a third-party mill caused it to declare force majeure on contracted oats

By GFM Network News January 8, 2024

More than two dozen farmers are moving ahead with legal action against Purely Canada Foods after it failed to honour contracts for gluten-free oats. The dispute centres on 2022 gluten-free oat contracts. On March 1, 2023, the company sent a letter to the farmers saying it was voiding the contracts because oat processing machinery had failed the previous fall and it couldn’t accept the crop.

CBOT December 2023 oats with cash contract price overlay (brown line). (Barchart)

Crops, Markets, Oats

Oat cash prices don’t immediately follow CBOT movement

One trader can push market around, trader says

By GFM Network News November 1, 2023

MarketsFarm — While oats on the Chicago Board of Trade rallied recently, upward movement in cash prices was varied. Even as that rally came to its eventual end, cash prices on the Canadian Prairies did not budge a great deal. Over nine consecutive sessions, the December oat contract at Chicago pushed higher by 29.5 U.S. […] Read more

Cereals, Crops

U.S. wheat, barley production increases in 2023

By GFM Network News September 30, 2023

MarketsFarm — The U.S. Department of Agriculture issued its small grains 2023 summary on Friday, showing a 10 per cent increase in all wheat production in 2023 of 1.81 billion bushels. While oat production dipped one per cent at 57 million bushels, barley output rose six per cent at 185 million. U.S. wheat in 2023 […] Read more

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Crops, Markets

Few surprises in StatCan report, analyst says

Downward revision on canola among those few

By GFM Network News September 15, 2023

MarketsFarm PRO analyst Mike Jubinville said Statistics Canada’s principal field crop production report, released Thursday, did not contain too many surprises. The agency’s previous report on Aug. 29 already provided insight as to what production numbers were going to be, he said, but still warned the model-based projections in the latest report will not be […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Weather

Canada bumps up wheat harvest view, trims canola estimate

StatCan releases yield outlook as of Aug. 31

By Rod Nickel, GFM Network News September 14, 2023

Winnipeg | Reuters — Canadian farmers will harvest slightly more wheat and a bit less canola than expected earlier in summer, but dry conditions will keep both crops small, a government report showed on Thursday. Farms in North and South America, Europe and Australia are facing crop losses as extreme weather spreads over an unusually […] Read more

GFM Network News

Big oat crop in 2025/26 pointing to less acres next year

China trade deal falls short: Conservatives

Chinese importer buys Canadian canola after Carney visit

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