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File photo of a pea crop south of Ethelton, Sask. on Aug. 1, 2019. (Dave Bedard photo)
Crops, Markets

Pulse weekly outlook: Slow start to Saskatchewan spring

Timely pulse seeding still expected

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MarketsFarm — While below-normal temperatures have welcomed the start of spring, pulse seeding in Saskatchewan is expected to start on time in 2023 if the weather co-operates. “We’ve had a slow start to spring,” said Saskatchewan Pulse Growers (SaskPulse) executive director Carl Potts. “It’s still a bit of time before seeding would normally start across […] Read more
CBOT May 2023 soybeans with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages. (Barchart)
Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: Chicago soy stronger on predictions for Argentina crop

Black Sea supply a risk as Russia challenges corridor deal

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Mexico City | Reuters — Chicago soybean futures settled higher on Tuesday after the U.S. government slashed its estimate for production in Argentina to a 23-year low in a monthly report. Soybean production in Argentina will be smaller than previously thought at 27 million tonnes as a crop-wasting drought decimated fields in the key South […] Read more
CBOT May 2023 soybeans with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages. (Barchart)
Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: Crop futures slide on disappointing export sales, improved weather

Traders adjust positions before Easter weekend

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Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Board of Trade grain and soybean futures crumbled on Thursday on disappointing U.S. export sales and an improved weather outlook for U.S. spring plantings, analysts said. U.S. soybean export sales for 2022-23 were 155,300 tonnes for the week ended March 30, down 42 per cent from the prior four-week average, […] Read more
File photo of black beans. (Nhattienphoto/iStock/Getty Images)
Crops

Pulse weekly outlook: For growers, spring still far away

Just 'minor changes' expected in Manitoba acres

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MarketsFarm — Springtime still seems distant for southern Manitoba as snow remains and freezing temperatures persist. However, provincial pulse specialist Dennis Lange said current conditions are setting up well for seeding after temperatures rise and snow melts. “We’re still a little ways off. There are still snow drifts in the fields in most areas of […] Read more
CBOT May 2023 soft red winter wheat with 20-day moving average, MGEX May 2023 hard red spring wheat (yellow line) and K.C. May 2023 hard red winter wheat (orange line). (Barchart)
Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: Chicago grains up on U.S. planting uncertainty

Hard wheats 'leading the way'

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Mexico City | Reuters — Chicago corn futures reversed losses to close higher on Monday on concerns about U.S. planting delays, and wheat and soy also made gains. Corn made its comeback later in the session as traders speculated on weather conditions and planting schedules for springtime crops as cold temperatures linger in the northern […] Read more
ICE July 2023 canola with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages. (Barchart)
Crops, Markets

ICE weekly outlook: Canola continues its collapse

Limited demand, more farmer selling seen

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MarketsFarm — After losing $62 per tonne the week before, the May contract on the ICE Futures canola market extended its losses for the week ended Wednesday with little relief on the horizon. Winnipeg-based trader Jerry Klassen of Resilient Commodity Analysis said the massive selloff is the result of farmers realizing there wouldn’t be a […] Read more
(Photo courtesy Canary Seed Development Commission of Saskatchewan)
Crops

Canary seed set for more acres

Crop seen as competitive against wheat for area in West

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MarketsFarm — While the price of canary seed in Western Canada has come down over the past couple of years, there is optimism that acres devoted to the specialty grain will increase in 2023. David Nobbs, pulse merchant for Purely Canada Foods in Saskatoon and former chair of the Canary Seed Development Commission of Saskatchewan, […] Read more
A farm worker unloads Ukrainian-made fertilizer from a truck on April 5, 2022 to use on a wheat field near the village of Yakovlivka, outside Kharkiv, after it was hit by an aerial bombardment. (Photo: Reuters/Thomas Peter)
Crops

Ukraine faces lack of herbicides, pesticides for spring seeding

About a third of needed chemicals reported to be at hand

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Kyiv | Reuters — Ukrainian farmers, which have already started the 2023 spring sowing, have only around 35 per cent of the herbicides and pesticides they need, analyst APK-Inform quoted on Monday official data as showed. The Russian invasion has left Ukraine seriously short of finances, seeds and crop protection products, which could have a […] Read more

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