The Horsch Solus SX concept could seed cereals and small oilseeds, along with corn and soybeans, at optimum row widths with one machine.

Planter and seed drill join forces

Horsch has created a concept to bring the advantages of a planter to smaller-seeded crops

Reading Time: 2 minutes Glacier FarmMedia – Is it a planter or a drill? If a concept machine created by Horsch eventually comes to the market, someone might have to invent a new category. “We’re trying to mix and trying to get the best of both worlds, which is a seed drill and a corn planter,” said Laurent Letzler, […] Read more





Grain quality reports available

Grain quality reports available

Reading Time: < 1 minute The Canadian Grain Commission full quality reports for CWRS, CWAD and CPSR wheats are now available and in a new format. These reports now feature new quality summaries, more visual charts and graphs and additional resources. The quality of the CWRS crop was excellent, with more than 97 per cent of the crop being in […] Read more







CBOT Corn ZCH24 on Jan. 24 with Bollinger bands. (Barchart)

U.S. grains: Corn up 1.3 per cent on South America weather worries, softer dollar

Wheat futures ended up 2.4 per cent on technical buying and weakness in the dollar

Chicago Board of Trade corn futures rose 1.3 per cent on Wednesday as uncertainty about crop prospects in South America and a setback in the dollar triggered a round of short-covering and lifted the benchmark corn contract Cv1 from three-year lows set last week, traders said.