Crops

Prolonged drought and record heat are threatening soybean yields in several key growing states across the Midwest US. With most of the soybean crop still in the critical pod-setting phase that depends on moisture in August, persistent dry conditions are lowering yield projections and raising concerns about the availability of supplies. Scouts participating in the […]

Closing grain prices Thursday, August 31 Durum 523.93Feed barley 285.61Canola 761.12Chickpeas 1036.17Flax 561.54Lentils 867.50Oats 301.32Yellow Peas 382.89Feed Wheat 240.971 Red Spring Wheat 321.08 Below are today’s closing future price quotations with Adam Pukalo of P.I. Financial.

We’re a third of the way through harvest. The Saskatchewan Crop Report says 33 percent has been combined, up from 21 percent last week, and ahead of the 5-year average of 23 percent as well as the 10-year average of 20 percent. Crops Extension Specialist  MacKenzie Hladun says the southwest is furthest advanced at 60 […]

Opening grain prices Thursday, August 31 Durum 523.93Feed barley 290.61Canola 766.02Chickpeas 1036.17Flax 561.54Lentils 867.50Oats 301.32Yellow Peas 382.89Feed Wheat 240.971 Red Spring Wheat 323.34 Below are today’s opening future price quotations with Adam Pukalo of P.I. Financial.

Statistics Canada released its crop production estimates yesterday (Tues). They project Saskatchewan’s production of mustard seed to increase, but canola, spring wheat, durum wheat, barley, lentils, dry field peas, oats, flaxseed and canary seed are anticipated to decrease. Chief Agricultural Editor of SaskAgToday.com Kevin Hursh dove into the numbers and calculated the average net return […]

Closing grain prices Wednesday, August 30 Durum 523.93Feed barley 290.61Canola 761.62Chickpeas 1036.17Flax 561.54Lentils 867.50Oats 301.32Yellow Peas 382.89Feed Wheat 240.971 Red Spring Wheat 328.13 Below are today’s closing future price quotations with Adam Pukalo with P.I. Financial.

Opening grain prices Wednesday, August 30 Durum 523.93Feed barley 290.61Canola 762.72Chickpeas 1036.17Flax 561.54Lentils 867.50Oats 301.32Yellow Peas 375.08Feed Wheat 240.971 Red Spring Wheat 328.60 Below are today’s future price quotations with Adam Pukalo with P.I. Financial.

Vietnam announced it is taking Canada thistle, also known as creeping thistle, out of its revised quarantine pest list, clearing the way for Canadian wheat exports to enter the country. The Vietnamese government had a zero tolerance policy in place for creeping thistle since 2018, meaning any Canadian wheat that had it faced commercial penalties, […]

North American farmers will get their first look at New Holland’s new all-electric utility tractor with autonomous features when they visit the Farm Progress show this week held at Decatur, Illinois. New Holland is billing its T4 Electric Power tractor as a “game-changing innovation” that creates a new tractor class — utility electric. The company […]

A single plant that showed up this summer on the edge of a southwestern Ontario cornfield is cause for concern among Canadian farmers. Ontario provincial weed management specialist Mike Cowbrough says the plant in question, found in Wellington County, is confirmed as palmer amaranth. The species has previously been dubbed the most troublesome weed in […]