Insights and Stories on Crops

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Seeding in Alberta ahead of pace

May. 10, 2024 at 4:08 pm CDT

Overall spring seeding of all crops in Alberta was just over 18 per cent complete, according to the province’s first crop report of 2024. The pace was nearly seven points above the five-year average.

Steady as she goes on wheat seeding rates

May. 10, 2024 at 10:25 am CDT

By Geralyn Wichers Lee Hart

Manitoba seeding progress made, but behind average pace

May. 8, 2024 at 12:41 pm CDT

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

U.S. grains: Wheat, soy, corn futures extend surge on volatile global weather

May. 6, 2024 at 4:43 pm CDT

By Renee Hickman

U.S. grains: Corn hits 3-month high; soy, wheat climbs on weather

May. 3, 2024 at 5:41 pm CDT

By Renee Hickman

Building a better canola with broccoli

Apr. 30, 2024 at 3:55 pm CDT

There’s little doubt that canola is a powerhouse crop. Nationwide, it covered nearly 22.1 million acres last year, more than 99 per cent of it on the Prairies. The Canola Council of Canada puts its economic contribution at nearly $30 billion a year. A University of Alberta researcher, backed by […]

By Jeff Melchior

U.S. grains: CBOT wheat rallies for seventh trading day on weather, crop conditions

Apr. 26, 2024 at 4:45 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters – Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) wheat futures turned higher for a seventh trading day on Friday on a weather driven surge that pushed the most-active wheat contract on a continual chart Wv1 to prices not seen since December. Soybean futures inched down, and corn stayed fairly flat, as traders watched […]

By Renee Hickman

Prairie wheat bids climb with U.S. futures

Apr. 26, 2024 at 4:32 pm CDT

Spring wheat bids in Western Canada climbed higher during the week ended April 25, as a rally in United States futures provided support. Chart-based speculative buying was behind much of the strength in the futures, as fund traders bought back some of their large net short position. Declining crop ratings […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Machine learning may help get a leg up on blackleg

Apr. 26, 2024 at 9:46 am CDT

Results of a recent study by researchers in Manitoba and Alberta could help growers fight blackleg disease in canola more effectively. The study was done by a team of researchers at the University of Manitoba led by Dilantha Fernando, a professor in the school’s plant science department. They were joined […]

By Jim Timlick

U.S. livestock: Lean hogs rally on pork demand outlook, rising commodities prices

Apr. 23, 2024 at 5:34 pm CDT

Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) lean hog futures rallied in tandem with other commodities markets on Tuesday as signs of tightening supplies and a favorable pork demand outlook supported prices, traders said.

By Karl Plume Reuters