Reading Time: 2 minutes The digital mapping tool is designed to give area-specific insights into the fungal disease. Cereal producers can get a localized head blight index and risk level for fusarium-damaged kernels and deoxynivalenol based on weather conditions.
Fusarium head blight mapping tool to limit fungal risk
Homegrown risk model offers platform for further disease research
Alberta researcher blazes gene editing trail
AAFC launches gene edited wheat trials at Lethbridge research farm
Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s only early spring, but things are already heating up in southern Alberta. Research scientist John Laurie has just planted the federal government’s first plots of gene-edited wheat at the Lethbridge Research and Development Centre. These lines are grown in a greenhouse after being successfully propagated in growth chambers. Laurie is excited for where his […] Read more
Plot2Farm wraps up another (dry) year
Although short on big news, it offered insight on how crop products work in dry conditions, says agronomist
Reading Time: 5 minutes When it comes to on-farm testing, part of the equation is seeing how products function in the real world. So, while dry conditions are not ideal circumstances, the agronomist lead of Alberta Grains’ Plot2Farm program says testing enhanced efficiency fertilizers, PGRs and nitrogen rates has value. “I’d say overall (2023) was a relatively successful year,” […] Read more
Conditions ripe for winter cereal wreck
Lack of snow cover, up-and-down temperatures and pooling and freezing all potential problems
Reading Time: 4 minutes Glacier FarmMedia – Minimal snow cover, frigid temperatures in mid-January and above-average temperatures after that may have set the stage for winterkill in winter crops. The risk is high enough to cause concern among crop specialists. “The eastern Prairies are in a little bit better shape than (Saskatchewan and Alberta) but there’s huge swaths that […] Read more
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
Field-scale trials present seeding and yield mystery in wheat
Trials see little yield difference by boosting seed count. But don’t plant less, says agronomist
Reading Time: 3 minutes Call it an agronomic mystery. It’s been proven time and time again that, barring unforeseen challenges, the more seeds planted, the more crop harvested. But those aren’t the results the Alberta Grains Plot2Farm program has seen in its field-scale trials on spring wheat. Four years of field trials have consistently shown that increasing seeding rates […] Read more
Wheat quality excellent in 2023
Reading Time: < 1 minute Cereals Canada has released the 2023 New Wheat Crop Report, which provides a quality and functionality update to domestic and global customers of Canadian wheat. Despite a challenging growing season that led to variable yields and below-average production, Canada produced another top-quality wheat crop. It had excellent quality in all wheat classes. Most of it […] Read more
Higher canola, wheat production expected in StatCan report
Traders raise concerns about report accuracy
MarketsFarm — There was a consensus among several traders and analysts that Statistics Canada will very likely raise its estimates on canola and wheat production for 2023-24. Yields on the Prairies were better than expected following a difficult first half of the growing period, as the weather improved during the second half. StatCan is set […] Read more
U.S. grains: Chicago wheat, corn rally as export sales top forecasts
Soybeans lower in narrow trading
Chicago | Reuters — Chicago wheat and corn futures climbed more than one per cent on Thursday as traders covered more short positions following a slump to multi-year lows and as weekly export sales topped forecasts and included sizeable purchases by major importer China. Soybeans were lower in range-bound trading after the U.S. Department of […] Read more
Prairie cash wheat: Prices fall back, more so for CWRS, CPSR
MGEX, K.C. wheats down on week
MarketsFarm — Wheat prices across the Prairies lost ground during the week ended Nov. 23, with Canada Western Red Spring and Canada Prairie Spring Red wheats incurring larger declines than those for durum. Minneapolis and Kansas City wheat futures pulled back during the week, but Chicago nudged up a little. Ongoing issues with lacklustre U.S. […] Read more
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