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Jul. 13, 2017 at 3:37 pm CDT

By Commodity News Service Canada July 13 (CNS Canada) – Ontario dry beans continue to make headway despite heavy rain in some areas, according the Thompsons In-Season Crop Report. Bean growers in Ontario, as well as Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota and Manitoba welcomed the heat. The warmer temperatures also gave […]

Jul. 12, 2017 at 3:19 pm CDT

By Commodity News Service Canada July 12 (CNS Canada) – The United States Department of Agriculture, the National Agricultural Statistics Service and the Agricultural Statistics Board released a crop production update July 12, which shows U.S. growers expect to harvest 1.77 million acres of edible beans. That compares to 1.56 […]

Jul. 11, 2017 at 3:26 pm CDT

By Commodity News Service Canada July 11 (CNS Canada) – Pulse crops through most of Manitoba are developing well, according the Manitoba Agriculture crop report. Peas in the southwest region are flowering with early-seeded peas forming pods. Aphids have not been a major concern. In the northwest, fababeans are in […]

Jul. 10, 2017 at 2:49 pm CDT

By Commodity News Service Canada Winnipeg, July 10 – Manitoba dry beans have entered the late vegetative stage, according to the latest report from Manitoba Pulse. Flowering is set to begin any day now. Bacterial blight is showing up in a few fields though, which is especially worrisome for kidney […]

Jul. 7, 2017 at 4:10 pm CDT

By Commodity News Service Canada Winnipeg, July 7 – Large world supplies of oats are tempering the advances the commodity might otherwise have seen due to the recent heat wave in the Northern US and the Canadian Prairies. Canadian farmers seeded 3.22 million acres of oats this spring, which was […]