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More canola and pulses, less wheat expected in Canada

By GFM Network News June 24, 2016

CNS Canada — Canadian farmers likely seeded more canola and pulse acres than originally thought this spring, but less wheat, according to average trade estimates ahead of Statistics Canada’s next official survey results due out June 29. Poor returns per acre and frustrations over grading issues had some farmers backing away on wheat, said Jerry […] Read more

A wheat crop in progress on May 24, 2016 north of London, Ont. (Ralph Pearce photo)

Cereals, Crops

Wheat crops excel in Ontario

By GFM Network News June 9, 2016

CNS Canada — Ontario wheat producers are having a great start to the season, with healthy crops doubling in acreage from last year, according to a provincial cereals specialist. “Winter wheat crop this year is looking excellent,” said Joanna Follings, who works for the Ontario ministry of agriculture in Guelph. “We have some disease pressures […] Read more

Crops, Spring Wheat, Weather, Winter Wheat

Saskatchewan wheat crop enters crucial phase

By GFM Network News May 13, 2016

CNS Canada –– Freezing temperatures are raising tensions for wheat growers in Saskatchewan as this year’s crop looks to survive a late blast of winter weather. The mercury dipped below 0 C in Saskatchewan on Thursday morning and Friday morning. Speaking Thursday afternoon, a regional crop specialist with the Saskatchewan Ministry of Agriculture, Shannon Friesen, […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Spring Wheat

Rising durum acres offset by declining spring wheat

By GFM Network News April 22, 2016

CNS Canada –– Increased durum acres in Canada may limit the upside potential as far as prices are concerned, but smaller spring wheat plantings will also limit the downside, according to a durum trader. Statistics Canada on Thursday pegged intended durum acres at 6.12 million acres, which would be up from 5.82 million in 2015. […] Read more

Crops, Markets

Farmers big on pulses, but canola down on the year

By GFM Network News April 21, 2016

CNS Canada — Canadian farmers will be seeding record acres of peas and lentils this spring, as expected, but the increases to pulse crops are coming at the expense of canola — which saw acres come in below expectations in a report out from Statistics Canada. In its first acreage survey of the year, released […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters

Canada’s farmers seen seeding less canola than expected

By Rod Nickel, GFM Network News April 21, 2016

Reuters — Canadian farmers intend to seed less canola than expected, and will sow record-large areas with pulse crops, according to the government’s first farmer survey of crop sowings for 2016, released on Thursday. Wheat seedings are also expected to decline, but not as much as traders and analysts expected on average. Statistics Canada estimated that […] Read more

Crops, Spring Wheat

North Dakota wheat acres seen likely to beat forecast

By GFM Network News April 6, 2016

CNS Canada — North Dakota farmers will be seeding less spring wheat this year — but the acreage may not be down by as much as the U.S. Department of Agriculture now forecasts. In its Prospective Plantings report, released last Thursday, USDA forecast North Dakota spring wheat area for 2016 (excluding durum) at 5.7 million […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters

U.S. acreage plans not set in stone as corn price drops

By GFM Network News March 31, 2016

Washington | Reuters –– U.S. farmers could plant more soybean acres than suggested in the government’s acreage forecast issued Thursday, as recent gains in the futures market tempted them to alter their corn-heavy seeding plans, growers and analysts said. The U.S. Agriculture Department report showed farmers intend to plant 93.601 million acres of corn this […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters

USDA sees farmers boosting corn, cutting soy acreage

By Reuters, GFM Network News December 11, 2015

Chicago | Reuters — The U.S. Agriculture Department on Friday forecast that U.S. farmers will raise corn plantings and cut back on soybean acreage in the 2016-17 marketing year. USDA’s Office of the Chief Economist estimated that farmers would seed 90.5 million acres of corn during the spring, 2.1 million more than they did in 2015-16. […] Read more

Cereals, Crops, Spring Wheat, Weather

Prairies’ harvest a tale of two wheat crops

By GFM Network News October 1, 2015

CNS Canada — Prairie farmers are in the final stages of harvesting the 2015 wheat crop, and while yields continue to beat earlier expectations, there’s a distinct quality difference between crops harvested early and those harvested late. “In our country, all of the grain was top grade, but anything that was left out at this […] Read more

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Tag Archives wheat acres

More canola and pulses, less wheat expected in Canada

Wheat crops excel in Ontario

Saskatchewan wheat crop enters crucial phase

Rising durum acres offset by declining spring wheat

Farmers big on pulses, but canola down on the year

Canada’s farmers seen seeding less canola than expected

North Dakota wheat acres seen likely to beat forecast

U.S. acreage plans not set in stone as corn price drops

USDA sees farmers boosting corn, cutting soy acreage

Prairies’ harvest a tale of two wheat crops

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