Insights and Stories on Crops

AAFC makes a few tweaks in Apr S&D report

Apr. 19, 2024 at 4:06 pm CDT

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada made a small amount of changes in its April supply and disposition report released on Apr. 19. Of the changes made, nearly all were slight adjustments to its pulse and special crop numbers.

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Pulse Weekly: More dry beans for Manitoba

Apr. 17, 2024 at 2:31 pm CDT

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Organics: Planting decisions still to be made

Apr. 1, 2024 at 11:14 am CDT

By Adam Peleshaty

Skyrocketing pasture values concern Manitoba beef producers

Mar. 27, 2024 at 2:56 pm CDT

By Don Norman

Hemp sector disappointed new report ignores deregulation

Mar. 25, 2024 at 2:38 pm CDT

By Robert Arnason

Tightening canola ending stocks for 2024/25: AAFC

Mar. 20, 2024 at 1:46 pm CDT

Canadian canola ending stocks will likely be tighter by the close of the upcoming 2024/25 marketing year, while the wheat carryout should rise, according to updated supply/demand estimates from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC), released March 19.

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Pesticides under fire in U.S.

Mar. 15, 2024 at 11:51 am CDT

Pesticides are increasingly under attack in the United States and that is keeping farm leaders awake at night.

By Sean Pratt

Why crops may not be best for underperforming acres

Mar. 15, 2024 at 10:22 am CDT

It might be difficult to consider “messy” fields as a pathway to improved crop production and profitability. But in the early going, a Prairie-wide university-developed research project suggests taking poor-producing acres out of annual crop production might be a means of improving overall efficiency, as well as the all-important bottom […]

By Lee Hart

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Canadian canola acres to dip in 2024, wheat steady: StatCan

Mar. 11, 2024 at 2:03 pm CDT

Canadian farmers intend to seed less canola in 2024 compared to the previous year, while overall wheat area should hold relatively steady, according to the latest Statistics Canada survey results released March 11.

By Phil Franz-Warkentin