Insights and Stories on Crops

Jul. 19, 2010 at 12:45 pm CDT

A common weed for U.S. corn and bean farmers, and also present in Ontario, just got even more troublesome. Waterhemp in Illinois was already known to be resistant to four classes of herbicides — triazine, PPO inhibitors, glyphosate and ALS inhibitors. AgWeb is now reporting the the first documented case […]

By Staff

Jul. 18, 2010 at 10:14 am CDT

Although the oat futures market is the most thinly traded cereal grain market in Chicago, it still provides reliable chart patterns and technical signals on when to buy and sell. Reading a chart is much like reading a road map. It tells you where prices are going to go. Let’s […]

By David Drozd

Jul. 16, 2010 at 3:56 pm CDT

The Canadian Grain Commission plans to reclassify five wheats from the Canada Western Red Winter class to CW General Purpose in 2013. Effective Aug. 1, 2013, CDC Kestrel, CDC Clair, CDC Harrier, CDC Falcon and CDC Raptor will be moved to the CWGP class. The commission said in a release […]

Jul. 16, 2010 at 3:35 pm CDT

Manitoba and Saskatchewan are now taking applications and Alberta expects its forms to be ready as early as next week for the federal/provincial excess moisture assistance program for crop producers. The program, flowing through the federal/provincial AgriRecovery budget, is meant to provide farmers with payments of $30 per unseeded or […]

Jul. 16, 2010 at 7:00 am CDT

Mexico has agreed to delay an announced crackdown on quarantine weed seeds that has until now halted a number of canaryseed railcars at the U.S./Mexican border. According to Kevin Hursh, a Saskatoon ag commentator and writer and executive director for the Canaryseed Development Commission of Saskatchewan, Mexico has agreed to […]