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Hot weather cuts into Canadian mustard crop

Price increases already noted

By Phil Franz-Warkentin, GFM Network News July 7, 2021

MarketsFarm — Canada is looking at another small mustard crop in 2021, which should keep prices well supported for any unpriced crop, as recent heat stress cut into yields. “That was a very rough week,” said Walter Dyck, the Alberta-based general manager with Wisconsin mustard-processor Olds Products, on the late June/early July heat wave that […] Read more

File photo of a pea crop south of Ethelton, Sask. on Aug. 1, 2019. (Dave Bedard photo)

Crops, Markets, Pulses, Weather

Pulse weekly outlook: Saskatchewan crops fight off record heat

By GFM Network News July 7, 2021

MarketsFarm — The “heat dome” which enveloped Western Canada last week delivered a blow to Saskatchewan’s pulse crops. Thirty-four temperature records were shattered on Friday, including those at Regina, Prince Albert, Swift Current, Weyburn and Yorkton. Saskatoon and Lucky Lake, northeast of Swift Current, were the province’s hot spots that day at 40 C. Nine […] Read more

CBOT December 2021 corn (candlesticks) with MGEX, CBOT and K.C. December 2021 wheats (green, yellow and orange lines). (Barchart)

Crops, Markets, Reuters, Weather

U.S. grains: Corn limit down as crop weather improves

Market retreats from rallies last week

By Tom Polansek, GFM Network News July 7, 2021

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Board of Trade corn futures sank by the daily limit on Tuesday as forecasts for cooler, wetter U.S. weather eased concerns about unfavourable crop conditions. Prices pulled back after climbing 12 per cent last week on lower-than-anticipated U.S. plantings estimates from the Department of Agriculture. The estimates made the market […] Read more

Smoke rises from a wildfire over a hill at Kamloops, B.C. on July 1, 2021, in this screen grab obtained from a social media video. (Nicole Ritter via Reuters)

Livestock, Weather

B.C. presses for ranchers to register before wildfires hit

Premises ID helps protect livestock in emergencies, province says

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News July 3, 2021

British Columbia’s provincial ag ministry hopes to shore up ranchers’ participation in the Premises Identification program against the risk of further wildfires this year. About two-thirds, or 5,200, of B.C.’s non-supply managed livestock producers, and all the supply-managed dairy cattle and poultry premises in the province, are registered in the program, the province said Wednesday. […] Read more

A sign for Lytton, B.C. on July 1, 2021. (Photo: Reuters/Jennifer Gauthier)

General, Reuters, Weather

Western Canada lightning strikes up tenfold, stoking fires

By GFM Network News July 3, 2021

Vancouver | Reuters — Lightning strikes in Western Canada over the past two days soared nearly tenfold from the same time a year ago, triggered in part by a record-breaking heat wave, meteorologists said, warning of more strikes over the weekend that could further stoke forest fires fanned by high winds. Over 710,000 lightning events […] Read more

CBOT July 2021 corn (candlesticks) with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages (yellow, orange and green lines). (Barchart)

Crops, Markets, Reuters, Weather

CBOT weekly outlook: Wet weather pressures markets ahead of USDA report

By GFM Network News June 9, 2021

MarketsFarm — After hot and dry weather sent corn and soybean prices climbing higher in early June, much-needed rains brought bids down at the Chicago Board of Trade on Wednesday. Weather accounted for “90 per cent” of the pricing influence, according to Sean Lusk, vice-president of the commercial hedging division for Walsh Trading in Chicago. […] Read more

CBOT July 2021 soybeans (candlesticks) with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages (yellow, gold, green lines). (Barchart)

Crops, Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Soybeans, corn ease on inflation fears

Stronger U.S. dollar also pressures prices

By Christopher Walljasper, GFM Network News June 4, 2021

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago soybean and corn futures eased on Thursday, pressured by a firming dollar and fears of food price inflation, though concerns of hot, dry weather in growing areas offered support, traders said. The most-active soybean contract on the Chicago Board of Trade fell 13-1/4 cents to $15.49-1/4 per bushel, while new-crop […] Read more

ICE July 2021 canola (candlesticks) with CBOT July 2021 soybeans (gold line). (Barchart)

Canola, Crops, Markets

ICE weekly outlook: Bare shelves keep all eyes on weather

By Phil Franz-Warkentin, GFM Network News June 3, 2021

MarketsFarm — Hot and dry Prairie growing conditions helped ICE Futures canola contracts move higher to start the month of June, with weather forecasts likely to dictate where values move over the next few weeks. “We’re going into some very hot temperatures, and we’ll need another dose of rain in a week or two to […] Read more

Some canola plants were turning purple. They were scattered here and there throughout the crop, although there wasn’t a great deal of them.

Canola, Crops, Features

Crop advisor casebook: Purple plants perplex canola grower

A Crop Advisor's Solution from the June 1, 2021 issue of Grainews

By Amy Prylski June 1, 2021

One morning in early July, I got a call from Aaron, a grain farmer in Melville, Sask., who grows canola, wheat and barley. Aaron told me he’d been out scouting canola fields on his 10,000-acre farm when he came across some plants that were turning purple — he asked me to come have a look. […] Read more

Flea beetle. (Photo courtesy Canola Council of Canada)

Canola, Crops, Weather

Forecast, flea beetles complicate canola timing

Dry conditions make ideal seeding time difficult to peg

By Alexis Stockford, GFM Network News May 15, 2021

Drought conditions, and the odds of more to come, have some Prairie canola growers pondering when to roll the dice on seeding, if they want to do more than feed the flea beetles. Small-seeded crops, such as canola, have garnered particular concern from agronomists and producers worried about germination, given power dry topsoil across much […] Read more

GFM Network News

Near record September major grain deliveries: Statistics Canada

China to buy 12 million metric tons of soybeans this season, Bessent says

Carney to meet China’s Xi in South Korea

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