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Seven tips for successful pulse and soybean crop disease management
Crop advisor casebook: What’s up with the weeds for this soybean grower?
A Crop Advisor's Solution from the February 9, 2020 issue of Grainews
Trevor is a producer who grows soybeans, canola, wheat and oats on his 2,500-acre farm near Brunkild, Man. In early July last year, he had sprayed one of his Roundup Ready soybean fields with herbicide for the second time that season, but as he explained to me in a phone call two weeks later, he […] Read more
ICE weekly outlook: Volatility day-to-day in bullish canola market
MarketsFarm — The ICE Futures canola market saw some large price moves during the week ended Wednesday, hitting fresh contract highs in many months before profit-taking came forward to weigh on values. With canola trading at historically high price levels, the potential volatility in the marketplace can go to extreme levels without much explanation, analyst […] Read more
Soybeans have potential, but need a bit of work
Southwest Saskatchewan producers say crop not suited to dry mid-summer conditions
Soybeans are close to having a good fit in southern Saskatchewan crop rotations, but two farmers who grew the crop for several years, say it would be good if plant breeding could improve drought tolerance and really good if there was a way to get lower pods on the plant stem at least a little […] Read more
The ebb and flow of soybean production
Acres have been up and down on the Prairies
While soybean production across Canada has had its ebbs and flows of seeded acres over the years, the trend has generally been in an upward direction with breeding work continuing to develop varieties adaptable to variable growing conditions particularly in Western Canada. A profitable crop, largely only grown in southern Ontario until the 1970s, soybeans […] Read more
ICE weekly outlook: Potential remains for higher canola prices
MarketsFarm — Canola prices fell back during the course of the last week, but should begin to move higher going into the coming week, according to trader Ken Ball of PI Financial in Winnipeg. Canola likely “reached the top” last week with profit-taking having set in, he said, noting a lot of money pours into […] Read more
ICE weekly outlook: WASDE spillover boosts canola
Canola may soon become price-sensitive, analyst says
MarketsFarm — Sharp increases in soybean, corn and wheat futures on Tuesday, following the release of the latest supply and demand report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), in turn spilled over into canola. The most significant factors in USDA’s world agricultural supply and demand estimates (WASDE) were further reductions to ending stocks for […] Read more
Argentine soy crushing operations normalize after 20-day labor strike
Buenos Aires | Reuters – Argentine soymeal and soyoil factories went back into production on Wednesday after a 20-day strike by oilseed workers was ended late the night before by a new wage contract for the coming year, union and industry sources said. The deal, following a more than 10-hour negotiation session hosted by the […] Read more
2020 grain market review: The year that felt like a decade
MarketsFarm – The column in this space a year ago led with the line ‘the more things change, the more they stay the same.’ That line was a jumping off point for a decade-in-review piece pointing out some of the through lines of the grain markets during the previous ten years. Well, the pandemic hit […] Read more
Canadian canola crush running strong
Canada’s canola crush is running slightly ahead of the year ago level, according to updated data from Statistics Canada. With 917,992 tonnes of the oilseed crushed in November, the 2020/21 (Aug/Jul) crop-year-to-date total of 3.465 million tonnes compares with the 3.309 million tonnes processed during the same timeframe the previous year. The November canola crush […] Read more
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