Insights and Stories on Minnesota

North Dakota still on lookout for Palmer amaranth

Sep. 20, 2018 at 7:57 pm CDT

CNS Canada –– Officials in North Dakota continue to hunt down suspicious plants in a bid to keep the aggressive weed Palmer amaranth from establishing there. Palmer amaranth, a pigweed species, made its first confirmed appearance in North Dakota last month, in a soybean field in McIntosh County, in the […]

Irrigation of corn stalks. Green background with falling water drops. The stems of the rain drops. Photo with limited depth of field.

Minnesota corn, soy crop prospects hurt by summer floods – crop tour

Aug. 23, 2018 at 12:00 pm CDT

By Karl Plume

Pulse weekly outlook: Manitoba bean acres depend on soy

Mar. 20, 2018 at 5:10 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Minnesota joins U.S. states limiting dicamba

Dec. 13, 2017 at 9:25 am CST

By Tom Polansek

Syngenta agrees to settle GMO corn litigation

Sep. 26, 2017 at 2:53 pm CDT

By Nate Raymond

Second incidence of waterhemp found in Manitoba

Sep. 20, 2017 at 4:42 pm CDT

A second case of waterhemp — a noxious weed which, in many places in Ontario and the U.S., is resistant to glyphosate, Group 2 herbicides or both — has been found in Manitoba. Waterhemp (amaranthus tuberculatus), which resembles redroot pigweed and is in the same family, was first found in […]

By Allan Dawson

Minnesota finds source of Palmer amaranth on CRP land

Apr. 6, 2017 at 6:13 pm CDT

Reuters — An invasive weed likely entered Minnesota through seed planted on land in a U.S. conservation program, state agriculture officials said on Thursday, bringing to a close an official probe of a growing threat to agricultural production. Infestations of the weed, Palmer amaranth, have affected other states in the […]

By Renita D. Young Tom Polansek

Palmer amaranth threatening U.S. corn fields

Apr. 5, 2017 at 3:13 pm CDT

Winterset, Iowa | Reuters — A U.S. government program designed to convert farmland to wildlife habitat has triggered the spread of a fast-growing weed that threatens to strangle crops in America’s rural heartland. The weed is hard to kill and, if left unchecked, destroys as much as 91 per cent […]

By Renita D. Young Tom Polansek

Minnesota probes Palmer amaranth’s sudden appearance

Feb. 8, 2017 at 3:36 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — Minnesota has launched an investigation to find the source of seed mixes contaminated with weed seeds after the aggressive, herbicide-resistant Palmer amaranth weed was found on 30 areas planted in a federal conservation program. The weed grows very fast, reaching up to eight feet in height […]

By Renita D. Young

North American sunflowers looking good early

Jun. 17, 2016 at 7:21 pm CDT

CNS Canada –– Sunflower crops in key growing regions of North America are in relatively good shape early in the season, according to reports. However, those good conditions have put some nearby pressure on values, with spot pricing expected to take some direction from the weather and acreage reports over […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

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