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More canola, wheat acres expected at pulses’ expense

By MarketsFarm Team, GFM Network News January 26, 2018

CNS Canada –– Canadian farmers will seed more wheat and canola in 2018 at the expense of pulse crops, according to Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s latest supply/demand estimates that include their first projections for the upcoming 2018-19 crop year. Total canola acres in 2018 are forecast at 24 million by the government agency, which would […] Read more

Crops, Reuters, Spring Wheat, Winter Wheat

Limagrain says GMO protests could force R+D relocation

By Reuters, GFM Network News January 17, 2018

Paris | Reuters — Limagrain, the world’s fourth-largest seed maker, will consider moving its research activities out of France if field trials in its home market continue to be sabotaged by opponents of genetically modified crops. The French co-operative group was targeted last month by protestors who invaded test fields southeast of Paris and scattered […] Read more

The PPS, a two-row single-pass planter designed on a Manitoba farm is capable of handling a wide range of seed types.

Machinery

A one-pass, hybrid planter-drill born on the farm

Manitoba farmers debut their do-it-all planter designed for Western Canada

By Scott Garvey December 19, 2017

A look back at the origins of Western Canadian short-line ag equipment manufacturers would reveal one thing common to almost all of them: their founders were farmers making on-farm machine modifications or inventing new systems to achieve goals not possible with then-existing equipment. The new PPS single-pass planter on display at this year’s edition of […] Read more

Columns, Markets

What does the harvest mean for the market?

A look at the post-harvest impact on Prairie canola, wheat and malt barley markets

By Brian Wittal November 20, 2017

By October 12, snow was already falling for the second time in two weeks and harvest was only about 80 per cent complete in the Central Alberta area. Other that than, the fall for the most part was amazing and has allowed farmers across the Prairies to get the harvest off in record time. Harvest […] Read more

Crops

Wheat storage a winner, says analyst

By GFM Network News November 17, 2017

Winnipeg | CNS – As yields grow throughout North America and the physical size of the crop becomes larger, farmers who invest in storage bins now, stand to reap the rewards later. “Guys with space are winning,” said Kurt Ahrens, founder of Grainbot in Omaha, Nebraska. Speaking at the Grain World Conference in Winnipeg, he […] Read more

Crops, News

Cargill expands its ProPricing program

This pricing program is now available to western Canadian canola and soybean growers

By Angela Lovell November 14, 2017

Cargill is expanding its ProPricing grain marketing program to canola and soybeans growers in Western Canada for the 2017-18 season. Cargill has been offering ProPricing in Western Canada only for hard spring red wheat over the past four years, but felt it was a logical time to expand into other western Canadian grown commodities. “Basically, […] Read more

Sunset in Egypt on the Nile River south of Luxor. (CIA.gov)

Cereals, Crops, Reuters

Egypt court ruling seen reinstating ergot ban in wheat imports

By Reuters, GFM Network News November 14, 2017

Cairo | Reuters — An Egyptian court on Tuesday effectively reinstated a ban on wheat imports containing even trace levels of the common grain fungus ergot, a lawyer who raised the case told Reuters, potentially re-opening a longstanding row over import rules that has disrupted trade. Egypt, the world’s largest wheat importer, issued a decree […] Read more

Crops, Reuters

USDA boosts corn harvest view above expectations on record yields

By GFM Network News November 9, 2017

Washington | Reuters – U.S. corn production will be higher than expected as harvest yields came in at record levels despite some concerns about the crop throughout the growing season, government data showed on Thursday. The U.S. Agriculture Department in its monthly supply and demand report said the bumper corn harvest will raise stockpiles of […] Read more

Cereals, Pulses, Reuters

India doubles wheat import tax, imposes 50 per cent tax on peas

By GFM Network News November 8, 2017

New Delhi | Reuters – India has doubled its import tax on wheat to 20 per cent, according to a government order made on Wednesday, as the world’s second biggest producer tries to rein in imports to support local prices. In the last two years India has been importing wheat after local production fell due […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Spring Wheat

Minneapolis wheat trends lower, more losses likely

By GFM Network News October 3, 2017

CNS Canada — Spring wheat futures on the Minneapolis Grain Exchange (MGEX) are trading right above major support and are poised to keep moving lower, according to an analyst. The U.S. Department of Agriculture unexpectedly raised its estimate on the size of the U.S. spring wheat crop to 416.2 million bushels in a report released […] Read more

Daily Network News

Southern California honeybees show resistance to varroa mites

Pulse Weekly: SaskPulse optimistic despite input, crop price concerns

Canadian aquaculture should be classed as agriculture, industry groups say

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