Insights and Stories on Crops

Dec. 8, 2009 at 2:47 pm CST

Arysta LifeScience has registered Pre-pare, a burndown herbicide for addition to glyphosate. Arysta says the combination improves yields by adding residual activity on wild oats and green foxtail. “Current products on the market miss the residual grass component. Only Pre-pare keeps wild oats and green foxtail from robbing valuable nutrients […]

Dec. 8, 2009 at 2:41 pm CST

Cash bids for canola in Western Canada have been slowly firming, although the need to fill contracts at specific locations have seen some upward fluctuations in prices. “There are certainly waves of demand that have begun to come from both the domestic and export sectors, which in turn has provided […]

By Dwayne Klassen

Dec. 8, 2009 at 2:32 pm CST

This week’s Canadian Wheat Board bulletin reports that 2008-09 malting barley  CashPlus participants will receive an additional payment of $12.89 per tonne. CashPlus is a cash-buying program that offers farmers an up-front, market-based cash price. The additional payment is derived from any market spreads between the up-front guaranteed cash price […]

Dec. 7, 2009 at 6:26 pm CST

Dec. 7 — Gold dropped today, which may be the beginning of a retracement after the recent multi-week surge to all-time highs. The U.S. dollar fell 15/100ths of a cent today. Financial markets were down with no real economic news to stimulate anything; energy markets were mixed with crude down […]

By Brian Wittal

Dec. 7, 2009 at 4:43 pm CST

Pioneer Hi-Bred, a division of DuPont, has announced a delay in commercial release of its corn hybrids and soybean varieties with the Optimum GAT trait. DuPont says Optimum GAT is “the first-ever agricultural trait developed through proprietary DuPont gene shuffling technology,” which would enable new herbicide options to provide broader-spectrum […]