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Canola market dips to rally, heat stress hits wheat crops

By GFM Network News July 31, 2017

CNS Canada – The ICE Canada canola market had a bit of a wild ride during the week ended July 28, with the November contract falling to its lowest level of the past month at one point before the brakes were hit on the drop and the market rallied $25 in three days. Fund traders […] Read more

Cereals, Crops, Pulses

Grain grading changes for Western Canada

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News July 27, 2017

The Canadian Grain Commission has announced several grain grading changes for the 2017 to 2018 crop year in Western Canada that will take effect August 1, 2017: It has added an ergot tolerance of 0.05 per cent in all grades of fababeans and chickpeas; Changed the tolerance for grasshopper and army worm damage from eight […] Read more

Cereals, Crops, Reuters

Drought hits parts of North Dakota spring wheat prospects

By GFM Network News July 26, 2017

Minot / Reuters – Spring wheat crops in central and northwestern North Dakota were showing the effects of hot, dry conditions and yield prospects were down sharply from a year ago, scouts on an annual crop tour said Wednesday. “The early-planted stuff looks the toughest,” said Dave Green, executive vice president of the Wheat Quality […] Read more

Crops, Reuters, Spring Wheat, Weather

Global buyers of quality wheat face disappointment in Canada

By Rod Nickel, GFM Network News July 20, 2017

Winnipeg/Chicago | Reuters — Buyers looking to Canada for high-quality wheat to make bread as drought roils output in the northern U.S. may be thwarted, as dry weather has also hit crops there. Wheat plants with the high protein content needed to bake bread have shrivelled in the U.S., one of the world’s top exporters, […] Read more

Barley, Cereals, Crops, Spring Wheat, Winter Wheat

Prairie wheat, barley commissions’ single checkoffs set

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News July 7, 2017

The post-deregulation era of Prairie grain research and market development funding is cleared to begin, as the three Prairie provinces’ wheat and barley commissions have set new single checkoffs on Prairie wheat and barley, all starting Aug. 1. The Manitoba Wheat and Barley Growers Association (MWBGA) on Wednesday announced that when the Western Canadian Deduction […] Read more

The plants looked healthy. The crop was completely headed out and around the milky stage, with no signs of disease or abnormal growth on the plants’ leaves, stems or heads. What was attracting the beetles?

Cereals, Crops, Features

Crop Advisor’s Casebook: The secret of the swooping birds

A Crop Advisor's Solution from the April 11, 2017 issue of Grainews

By Charisse Garland June 30, 2017

Last July, Henry, a Saskatchewan farmer, watched as a throng of birds swooped in and out of his durum wheat field. When he scouted the field, he also found some “black bugs,” which prompted him to give me a call. “You need to look at my durum,” he said. “Birds are swooping, so there must […] Read more

Poorly-treated wheat seed, inoculated with f. graminearum. Photo: Lisa Guenther

Cereals, Crops

Know how to identify these three seedling diseases

By Lisa Guenther June 23, 2017

Seedling diseases can weaken cereals, leaving plants susceptible to other stresses, Brittney Kroeker told attendees at Bayer’s SeedGrowth Solutions Expo in Saskatoon this spring. Kroeker went through some of the top seedling diseases in cereals. Here are her tips for identifying three seedling disease in cereals.

After Don sprayed his durum, the crop seems to be  set back and yellowing in patches.

Cereals, Crops, Features

Crop Advisor’s Casebook: Dealing with damaged durum

A Crop Advisor's Solution from the March 14, 2017 issue of Grainews

By Bethany Wyatt June 13, 2017

Don’s 3,000-acre mixed farm can be found south of Weyburn, Sask., near the U.S. border. He called me last June after he discovered patches of yellowing durum wheat plants in his field. Don had sprayed the crop at the three-leaf stage with a tank mix of Groups 1, 2 and 4 herbicides to control grasses […] Read more

In my asparagus patch, September, 2012. Planting date was May 2002.

Columns, Crops

Getting to the root of the matter

In the third of a three-part series, Les Henry looks at roots of field and garden crops

By Les Henry June 9, 2017

This is the final of a three-part series. In part 1 (April 11, 2017) I talked about the folks that provided very detailed diagrams of many plant roots to the depth needed to get the complete picture. Part 2 (April 25, 2017) was perennial pasture and hay crops and weeds and part 3 is field […] Read more

Cereals, Crops

Organic wheat and fusarium head blight

By Les Henry May 12, 2017

There have been recent farm press talks about the lack of fusarium head blight and associated vomi problems in organic wheat. Organic farmers do not spray with fungicides so how can that be? Some experts say that in a fusarium area and year there is no way to grow wheat without spraying with a fungicide. […] Read more

U.S. livestock: Hog futures hit contract highs on shock herd decline

Alberta Crop Report: Harvest more than three-quarters finished

NFU says proposed plant breeders’ rights come at farmers’ expense

GFM Network News