Reading Time: 2 minutes Pulse growers should check the germination and vigour of their seed before planting it this spring following tough harvest conditions last fall, advises Ed Thiessen, technical crop manager with Syngenta Canada. That includes seed from crops treated with the the desiccant Reglone. “In many cases they (farmers) were forced to put on Reglone at too […] Read more
Check Pulse Seed For Germination And Vigour
UAP Has New Biocontrol For Sclerotinia
Reading Time: 3 minutes Contans isn’t a “silver bullet” and because it’s a living organism, proper storage, transport and application is essential to its success… GARTH RENDER UAP MARKETING MANAGER APPLICATIONS Long-term sanitation of the soil. Short-term sanitation of the soil. Creation of a protective barrier in the soil. Preventing sclerotia from contaminating future crops. UAP Canada has introduced […] Read more
Assistant CGC Commissioners Redundant?
Reading Time: 2 minutes IAN WISHART “The assistant commissioners have acted as farm advocates and farmers don’t have many of them.” KAP PRESIDENT The Canadian Grain Commission (CGC) has been operating fine without the six assistant commissioners historically appointed by the federal government and that will continue, a spokesman says. Remi Gosselin was reacting to the federal government’s decision […] Read more
Flaxseed Testing Pushed
Reading Time: 2 minutes “The only way that we are going to (satisfy the EU is) to do it with constant testing – testing of the new crop that a producer harvests, testing of rail cars… and then testing again in the terminal at Thunder Bay to make sure it’s negative before it goes on a vessel.” Terry James […] Read more
Shrinkage Has Not Completely Shrunk
Reading Time: 2 minutes alberta farmer | winkler, manitoba Some farmers called it “tookage” – the deduction primary elevators used to take from farmers to cover grain lost during handling known as “shrinkage.” The Canadian Grain Commission (CGC) set the shrinkage deduction at terminal elevators at zero in 1990 and did the same at primary elevators in 2003. Now […] Read more
Ag Free Trade Benefits Oversold To Farmers
Reading Time: 3 minutes The benefits of free trade and unfettered access to world agricultural markets are being oversold to farmers, says Daryll E. Ray, an agricultural economist at the University of Tennessee. Economic principles such as supply and demand and comparative advantage don’t work the same with food as other commodities. Food, like insulin to a diabetic, is […] Read more
Fewer Wheats At This Year’s Recommending Meeting
Reading Time: 3 minutes Last year a record 11 for the CWRS class were reviewed; this year just five SASKATOON The committee that determines whether new wheats should be supported for registration fewer candidates to consider this year than last. Members of the Prairie Recommending Committee for Wheat, Rye and Triticale (PRCWRT) reviewed the data and cast their secret […] Read more
Western Feed Grain Development Co-Op Strikes Out
Reading Time: 3 minutes “I thought probably they would let the market decide whether or not that should go ahead.” – David Rourke saskatoon David Rourke was surprised and disappointed two spring wheats proposed for the Canada Western General Purpose (CWGP) class by the Western Feed Grain Development Co-op (WFGDC) weren’t supported for registration here Feb. 25. “I’m not […] Read more
When Wheat Makes You Sick
Reading Time: 3 minutes saskatoon Wheat is hailed as the main ingredient in “the staff of life,” but it makes about 14 per cent of North Americans sick, a recent industry meeting was told. That’s not the best news for Canadian farmers who grow more acres of wheat than any other crop, or North American flour millers who want […] Read more
Changes Proposed For Red Winter Wheat Classes
Reading Time: 2 minutes saskatoon Proposed changes to wheat classifications would increase Canada’s ability to compete with American winter wheat in the international market, a discussion paper presented to the recent varietal registration meetings says. Four “generic” winter wheat varieties might be moved to the new general-purpose class and a fifth be graded Canada Feed, according to a discussion […] Read more
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