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Churchill to move pulses this fall, consider partnerships

By GFM Network News September 10, 2015

Churchill | CNS Canada –– As its shipping season gets underway, the operators of Manitoba’s Port of Churchill are considering options for keeping the port viable going forward — especially as the end looms for its government subsidy. Churchill has previously relied on the Canadian Wheat Board as its primary supplier of grain, but in […] Read more

The Clipper Bettina. (Clipper-Group.com)

Crops, Markets, Spring Wheat, Weather

Churchill’s first shipment of season now loading

By GFM Network News September 9, 2015

Churchill, Man. | CNS Canada — Grain loading has started on the first vessel of the season to reach Manitoba’s northern Port of Churchill. The Clipper Bettina arrived at the Hudson Bay port Sunday and began receiving grain Wednesday. The vessel is to leave for Africa within days, with 36,000 tonnes of hard red spring […] Read more

Crops, Weather, Winter Wheat

Manitoba’s winter wheat seeding stalled

By GFM Network News September 8, 2015

CNS Canada — Manitoba winter wheat seeding is underway, but farmers are facing some complications in areas where other crops aren’t out of the ground yet. Winter wheat seeding traditionally takes place from Aug. 15 to Sept. 15. “But it’s been a bit tricky this year,” said Jake Davidson, executive director at Winter Cereals Canada. […] Read more

Crops, Reuters, Weather

Hard-luck Prairie farmers may get late-season weather break

By Rod Nickel, GFM Network News September 8, 2015

Winnipeg | Reuters –– Farmers in Western Canada, whose crops have been battered this year by drought and hail, may be in line for a break in the weather as they bring in the harvest. Temperatures are forecast to remain above freezing for more than a week, delaying the first significant harvest frost later than […] Read more

Crops, Weather

Warm, dry weather so far co-operating with this year’s harvest

Saskatchewan Crop Report for the week ending August 31

By Saskatchewan Agriculture September 3, 2015

Warm and relatively dry weather has allowed producers to make good progress on harvest. Twenty-nine per cent of the crop is now combined and an additional 30 per cent is swathed or ready to straight-cut. The five-year (2010-2014) average for this time of year is 14 per cent combined and 26 per cent swathed or […] Read more

Record showers in August have already swamped parts of Argentina, with more rain on the way next month. (Argentina.gob.ar)

Corn, Crops, Markets, Reuters, Soybeans, Weather

El Nino seen pushing Argentina into planting more soy, less corn

By GFM Network News September 3, 2015

Buenos Aires | Reuters — The El Nino weather phenomenon is expected to start dumping torrential rains on Argentina next month, pushing farmers to plant more low-cost soy and less corn despite concern over lack of crop rotation in one of the world’s main food suppliers. Argentina, the No. 1 exporter of soymeal livestock feed […] Read more

Crops, Weather

Rain and eventually frost in store for Sask., Man.

By GFM Network News September 3, 2015

CNS Canada — Early-September rains will likely interrupt harvest progress in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, according to a U.S. meteorologist — but producers will still likely be able to avoid frost. Field work will operate around rains that are expected to fall between Sept. 6 and 9, said Drew Lerner, president of World Weather Inc. “We’ve […] Read more

Crops, Weather

New Sask. farm drainage rules ready for rollout

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News September 1, 2015

Saskatchewan has laid out a new set of regulations meant to bring all farm drainage works — including previously grandfathered drains — into compliance in the next 10 years. The regulations, announced Tuesday, will first be applied to pilot projects in the province’s east — in the Souris Basin, near Stoughton, and the Assiniboine Basin, […] Read more

Crops, Reuters, Weather

This year’s El Nino could be strongest on record

By GFM Network News September 1, 2015

Geneva | Reuters — The current El Nino weather phenomenon is expected to peak between October and January and could turn into one of the strongest on record, experts from the World Meteorological Organization said at a news conference Tuesday. Climate models and experts suggest surface waters in the east-central Pacific Ocean are likely to […] Read more

Belinda Cay, at right. (Lisa Guenther photo)

Crops, Weather

Youth Ag-Summit: How Australian ag benefits from biotech

By Lisa Guenther, GFM Network News August 28, 2015

A speaker at the international Youth-Ag Summit in Canberra, Belinda Cay of the Grains Research and Development Corporation of Australia discusses how new crop varieties have improved yields on that continent, including on her own family’s farm.

U.S. grains: Soy futures set six-week low as China buys Argentine cargoes, snubs U.S.

U.S. livestock: Hogs rally ahead of USDA report

Canadian Barley Research Coalition pledges $1.8 million to USask Crop Development Centre

GFM Network News

U.S. grains: Soy futures set six-week low as China buys Argentine cargoes, snubs U.S.

U.S. livestock: Hogs rally ahead of USDA report

Canadian Barley Research Coalition pledges $1.8 million to USask Crop Development Centre

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Churchill to move pulses this fall, consider partnerships

Churchill’s first shipment of season now loading

Manitoba’s winter wheat seeding stalled

Hard-luck Prairie farmers may get late-season weather break

Warm, dry weather so far co-operating with this year’s harvest

El Nino seen pushing Argentina into planting more soy, less corn

Rain and eventually frost in store for Sask., Man.

New Sask. farm drainage rules ready for rollout

This year’s El Nino could be strongest on record

Youth Ag-Summit: How Australian ag benefits from biotech

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