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Cereals, Crops, Markets, Reuters, Spring Wheat, Winter Wheat

Canada’s wheat exports dogged by quality complaints

By Rod Nickel, GFM Network News December 3, 2014

Winnipeg | Reuters –– Buyers of Canadian wheat are increasingly complaining about quality ever since Ottawa changed how its biggest crop is sold and inspected, raising the risk the world’s third largest exporter will lose sales to rivals such as the U.S. EDITOR’S NOTE: Click HERE to read a Dec. 5 letter to the editor […] Read more

Cereals, Crops, Markets, Spring Wheat, Winter Wheat

CWRS wheat bids rise with U.S. futures

By GFM Network News December 1, 2014

CNS Canada — Average cash bids for Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS) wheat moved higher during the week ended Friday, as a rally in the U.S. futures provided some support. In Manitoba, the average CWRS price rose to $236 per tonne, from $232 per tonne the previous week. Average gains of $5 to $10 per […] Read more

Cereals, Corn, Crops, Markets, Reuters

IGC raises forecast for 2014-15 global corn crop

By Reuters, GFM Network News November 27, 2014

London | Reuters — The International Grains Council on Thursday raised its forecast for the 2014-15 world corn (maize) crop, reflecting an upward revision to production in China. Global corn production was forecast to total 982 million tonnes, up from a previous forecast of 980 million and just shy of the prior season’s record 984 […] Read more

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Cereals, Crops, News

Adding value pays off for farm business

Manitoba: When buying more land became difficult, Myron and Jillian Krahn made the most of what they had

By Lee Hart November 24, 2014

Myron and Jillian Krahn don’t have a lot of opportunity to increase the land base of their southern Manitoba farm, but they do grab every opportunity they can to add more value to farm enterprises they do have. They’ve increased the size of the farm near Carman, Man. considerably since they took over the operation […] Read more

Cereals, Crops, Reuters

Argentina sees wheat harvest of 12 million tonnes

By Reuters, GFM Network News November 20, 2014

Buenos Aires | Reuters –– Argentine farmers will harvest 12 million tonnes of wheat in the 2014-15 crop year, the agriculture ministry said in its monthly report Thursday, issuing its first wheat crop estimate of the season. Argentina’s 2013-14 wheat harvest was 9.2 million tonnes, according to official data. “Losses have been seen in parts […] Read more

Cereals, Crops, Reuters

Monsanto settles U.S. farmers’ suits over experimental wheat

By GFM Network News November 12, 2014

Reuters — Monsanto Co. said Wednesday it reached a settlement with U.S. wheat farmers who sued the seed company over market disruption after unapproved genetically engineered wheat was discovered growing without oversight in Oregon. Monsanto’s Roundup Ready wheat, which was never approved by U.S. regulators and which the company said it stopped testing a decade […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters, Spring Wheat, Weather, Winter Wheat

Australian farmers hold back wheat sales as dryness curbs yields

By GFM Network News November 12, 2014

Reuters — Australian farmers are holding back wheat crop sales as dryness in parts of the country’s eastern grain belt cuts yields, raising the likelihood for a boost to global prices that have dropped 13 per cent this year. Farmers in the world’s fourth biggest wheat exporter have sold only about a quarter of this […] Read more

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Canola, Cereals, Crops, Features

Farming was the right choice

After 40 years of farming, Blair Rempel knows he made the right choice when he chose to come back to the farm

By Shirley Byers November 10, 2014

Blair Rempel has been farming for almost 40 years. The Nipawin area producer and seed grower earned his diploma in agriculture at the University of Saskatchewan, in 1976. He considered other careers but always came back to agriculture. “The things I found attractive was a certain degree of independence and the satisfaction of building your […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Spring Wheat, Winter Wheat

Prairie spring wheat bids soften

By GFM Network News November 10, 2014

CNS Canada — Average cash bids for Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS) wheat moved lower during the week ended Friday, as basis levels held reasonably steady and prices drifted down with the U.S. futures. In Manitoba, the average CWRS price declined to $223 per tonne, from $234 the previous week. Similar declines were noted across […] Read more

By May 27, there was even germination and emergence.

Columns, Crops, Spring Wheat

Diary of a wheat crop

After a successful 2014 grain harvest at  his Dundurn farm, Les Henry is grateful

By Les Henry November 6, 2014

This is the story of my 2014 wheat crop at my farm near Dundurn. August 25, 2013 Combined a 55 bushel per acre pea crop. No rain for over a month, so soil dry. September 24, 25, 2013 Mother Nature declares. There was 2.25 inches of nice gentle rain, all soaked in. Soil is now moist […] Read more

Daily Network News

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