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Produce prices spike in flood-hit Pakistan as food crisis looms

Aug. 31, 2022 at 2:31 pm CDT

Lahore | Reuters — Vegetable and fruit prices have soared in markets across Pakistan as devastating rains ruin crops and disrupt supplies, an early sign of how the worst floods in decades are creating food shortages at a time of financial crisis. Pakistan’s 220 million people are already facing rampant […]

Manitoba’s sunflower crop smaller, better

Aug. 30, 2022 at 8:21 pm CDT

By Adam Peleshaty

U.S. grains: Corn down on recession fears, profit-taking

Aug. 30, 2022 at 8:13 pm CDT

By Julie Ingwersen

Pulse weekly outlook: StatCan shows big jump in pea, lentil production

Aug. 30, 2022 at 4:46 pm CDT

By Adam Peleshaty

U.S. grains: Corn hits two-month high on heat, dryness concerns

Aug. 29, 2022 at 8:37 pm CDT

By Tom Polansek

Canadian crop production bounces back, StatCan reports

Aug. 29, 2022 at 2:02 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — After 2021’s historic drought on the Prairies caused crop production to fall to historic lows, the 2022 harvest has mostly bounced back to pre-drought levels, according to Statistics Canada. StatCan on Monday released its July 2022 satellite image-based principal field crop production estimates, which confirmed analysts’ expectations that […]

By Adam Peleshaty

U.S. grains: Corn up on crop tour’s lowered expectations

Aug. 26, 2022 at 7:04 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Board of Trade corn and soybean futures jumped on Friday on concerns about hot and dry weather reducing U.S. yields, analysts said. After the close of trading, advisory service Pro Farmer projected a U.S. corn harvest of 13.759 billion bushels, which would be the smallest […]

By Tom Polansek

AgCanadaTV Special Feature: Pasture and grassland risks

Aug. 26, 2022 at 3:48 pm CDT

Mae Elsinger, a rangeland and pasture biologist with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, discusses some of the risks to forage growth, using insects to manage weeds in pastures, and training cattle to eat spurge.

Feed weekly outlook: Barley harvest begins in Alberta

Aug. 25, 2022 at 8:14 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — The barley harvest has already started in Alberta and prices continue to ease downward, according to one trader. “Around Lethbridge, they seem to have a good portion done,” said Erin Harakal, trade manager for Agfinity Inc. at Stony Plain, Alta. “Some areas in the north are starting, as […]

By Adam Peleshaty

Greater crop production estimated prior to StatCan report

Aug. 25, 2022 at 8:00 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Analysts are expecting Canadian crop production totals for the 2022-23 marketing year to be substantially higher compared to drought-stricken 2021-22, but still not enough to fully replenish supplies. Statistics Canada (StatCan) will publish its first satellite image model-based yield and production estimates for principal field crops on Monday. […]

By Adam Peleshaty