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Pulse weekly outlook: Planted green, yellow peas lower prices

By Marlo Glass May 14, 2019

MarketsFarm — Green and yellow pea seeding is well underway across the Prairies, causing new-crop prices to slide marginally while spot prices hold firm. As Dale McManus, a broker with Johnston Grain at Welwyn, Sask., explained, seeded acres and new crop prices have an inverse relationship: as seeded acres rise, new crop prices fall. Producers […] Read more

Crops, News

Wet conditions dampen planting efforts, seeding seen limited

Ontario Field Crop Report for the week of May 6

By OMAFRA Field Crop Team May 9, 2019

Not much has happened in the fields since we met two weeks ago. Continued wet conditions, mostly from small rain events and low heat and little sunshine preventing drying, has hampered planting and other spring field activities so far. But the turn around starts now! CHU accumulated the first week of May at Mt. Forest […] Read more

ICE July 2019 canola with Bollinger (20,2) bands, a gauge of market volatility. (Barchart)

Crops, Markets

ICE weekly outlook: Little for canola bids to stand on

By Glen Hallick May 8, 2019

MarketsFarm — There wasn’t much available to sustain a bounce in canola prices, from where David Derwin sits. “It’s really tough to say. We had canola drop so much over the last couple of months and sometimes it’s ‘buy the rumour, sell the fact,’” said Derwin, a commodities portfolio manager with PI Financial in Winnipeg. […] Read more

CBOT July 2019 soybeans with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages. (Barchart)

Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: Weak export data drags soybeans to new lows

By Karl Plume May 2, 2019

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures posted contract lows for a fourth straight session on Thursday after weak U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) export sales data and amid ongoing concerns that rain-delayed corn sowing would increase soy plantings. Corn was mixed as spillover pressure from lower soybeans offset support stemming from concerns about delayed […] Read more

ICE July 2019 canola (candlestick) with CBOT July 2010 soybeans (line) for comparison. (Barchart)

Crops, Markets

ICE weekly outlook: Bearish funds keep canola pointed lower

By Phil Franz-Warkentin May 1, 2019

MarketsFarm — ICE Futures canola prices fell to their lowest levels since 2014 during the week ended Wednesday, as bearish technical signals and a lack of progress on trade relations with China weighed on values. While a short-covering correction is possible, the underlying fundamentals also remain bearish. Speculators adding to their large net short positions […] Read more

Barley south of Ethelton, Sask. on Aug. 3, 2017. (Dave Bedard photo)

Crops, Markets

Feed weekly outlook: Western Canadian market stabilizing

By Phil Franz-Warkentin April 26, 2019

MarketsFarm — Western Canadian feed grain prices have come under pressure over the last month, but appear to be stabilizing as attention turns to spring seeding across the Prairies. “We’ve been steadily dropping for the past few weeks, and it’s leveled out now,” said Tracey Green, grain broker with Market Master Ltd. in Edmonton. Buyers […] Read more

Crops, Markets

Feed weekly outlook: Barley bids soften as attention turns to new crop

By Phil Franz-Warkentin April 11, 2019

MarketsFarm — Feed barley bids in the key cattle feeding area of southern Alberta are coming under some pressure, as attention begins to turn to the new crop. “Demand is dropping off here a little bit,” said Allen Pirness of Market Place Commodities in Lethbridge. Feedlots have extended coverage through the spring and into the […] Read more

Crops, Markets

Pulse weekly outlook: Yellow, green pea prices vary ahead of seeding

By Marlo Glass April 9, 2019

MarketsFarm — India’s tariffs on Canadian pulses hit green and yellow peas particularly hard over the past year — and the market is still hurting as producers plan acres for 2019. Since yellow pea exports dropped significantly in the middle of the year, “there’s going to be a lot of carryover in yellow peas for […] Read more

Salford’s Valmar 56 box can be mounted or towed.

Crops, Machinery

Tillage tools quickly becoming seeding tools

There are now many options to add cover crop seeding boxes to tillage equipment

By John Greig April 5, 2019

As cover crops have increased in popularity, farmers are finding creative ways to plant them. For many farmers that has meant finding a way to get a seeder box onto a tillage implement of some kind. Why it matters: Cover crops can increase available nutrients, water and organic matter and reduce soil erosion over winter. […] Read more

File photo of a flooded North Dakota highway. (DLerick/E+/Getty Images)

Crops

Heavy North Dakota snows threaten wheat seeding

By Julie Ingwersen March 25, 2019

Chicago | Reuters — A blanket of heavy, wet snow covering most of North Dakota, the top U.S. wheat state, threatens to delay planting of spring wheat in another blow to a U.S. farm belt already facing billions of dollars in damage from flooding. Farmers from Missouri to South Dakota have seen their corn and […] Read more

Tag Archives seeding — page 19

Pulse weekly outlook: Planted green, yellow peas lower prices

Wet conditions dampen planting efforts, seeding seen limited

ICE weekly outlook: Little for canola bids to stand on

U.S. grains: Weak export data drags soybeans to new lows

ICE weekly outlook: Bearish funds keep canola pointed lower

Feed weekly outlook: Western Canadian market stabilizing

Feed weekly outlook: Barley bids soften as attention turns to new crop

Pulse weekly outlook: Yellow, green pea prices vary ahead of seeding

Tillage tools quickly becoming seeding tools

Heavy North Dakota snows threaten wheat seeding

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