Crops

Russian drones pounded grain storage facilities and ports along the Danube River that Ukraine has increasingly relied on as an alternative transport route to Europe, after Moscow broke off a key wartime shipping agreement using the Black Sea. At the same time, a loaded container ship stranded at the Black Sea port of Odesa since Russia’s full-scale invasion more than 17 […]

Statistics Canada says wholesale sales, excluding petroleum, petroleum products and other hydrocarbons and excluding oilseed and grains, fell 2.8 per cent to $80.5 billion in June. The agency says a drop in the miscellaneous subsector led the decline in June as it fell 7.3 per cent to $10.3 billion, weighed down by a 19.4 per […]

Harvest progress sits at 3% complete across the province, which is on-par with the 5-year average harvest progress. Winter wheat and fall rye harvest continues, with 67% of acres harvested. Early yield reports for winter wheat are averaging about 60 bu/acre. Harvest has started in spring cereal crops, with the majority ofharvest happening in the […]

Closing grain prices Wednesday, August 16 Durum 532.93Feed barley 310.61Canola 743.12Chickpeas 1036.17Flax 561.54Lentils 759.50Oats 301.32Yellow Peas 365.89Feed Wheat 270.971 Red Spring Wheat 337.03 Below is today’s closing future price quotations with Adam Pukalo of P.I. Financial.

Opening grain prices Wednesday, August 16 Durum                           523.73 Feed barley                   310.61 Canola                           736.62  Chickpeas                     1036.17 Flax                                561.54 Lentils                            759.50 Oats                               301.32 Yellow Peas                   365.89 Feed Wheat                   270.97 1 Red Spring Wheat      336.17  Below is today’s opening future price quotations with Adam Pukalo of P.I. Financial.

The Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association has launched its first ever young farmer mentorship program. The program was established with support from Canadian Pacific Kansas City Rail (CPKC). The Saskatchewan Director and Treasurer with the Wheat Growers, Kaitlyn Kitzan, says this program is important to her, as she first joined the organization, coming out of university, without […]

A migrant worker who was diagnosed with cervical cancer shortly after arriving in Nova Scotia has been granted health insurance under a federal program. Kerian Burnett arrived from Jamaica in April 2022 to work on a strawberry farm, and says she was fired after her cancer diagnosis and left without medical coverage. Her lawyer, Thiago […]

Any Alberta producers who were considering AgriStability — but only in hindsight — for the income stabilization plan’s 2023 program year now have until September 29th to apply. Ottawa and the province have announced that they’ve reopened the jointly-funded program, as wildfires and/or “extremely dry” growing conditions have dragged on many Alberta producers’ work in the […]

Research out of the University of Alberta is showing that adding silicon to soil could help in the battle against clubroot. The study — which is the first to explore the effects of silicon on the disease in canola — showed that mixing the element with soil reduced overall clubroot symptoms in susceptible plants, by up […]

Closing grain prices Tuesday, August 15 Durum 523.73Feed barley 310.61Canola 729.82 Chickpeas 1036.17Flax 561.54Lentils 759.50Oats 301.32Yellow Peas 365.89Feed Wheat 270.971 Red Spring Wheat 333.64  Below are today’s closing future price quotations with Adam Pukalo of P.I. Financial.