Crops

The majority of the province has continued to be dry, however some areas received heavy rain showers this past week with some isolated flash floods. Some of these areas also received hail; the size and amount of hail varied between storms and damage varied. While moisture was needed, a slow, soaking rain would have allowed […]

2023 is shaping up to be a dry year and consequently won’t be a bin buster. That’s according to agricultural consultant Kevin Hursh, who says where he farms in the Cabri area of southwest Saskatchewan it’s dry. “Things are going backwards quickly in my part of the world,” Hursh said. “Increasingly there’s a lot of […]

Canadian pulse exports continue at a solid pace through nine months of the 2022-23 marketing year, with old-crop prices trending higher over the past month as the market rations demand ahead of the new-crop harvest. Canada has exported 1.713 million tonnes of lentils during the crop year to date, with Turkey the top destination at […]

Ottawa’s decision to ban the use of lambda-cyhalothrin insecticides on any crops destined for feed use has now led at least one Canadian miller to prohibit any deliveries of oats treated with the chemical. Grain Millers, whose Canadian operations include its oat mill at Yorkton, said in a memo yesterday (Tue) to growers that the […]

Statistics Canada released highlights of the June 2023 Field Crops survey pertaining to the 2023 seeding areas of principal field crops. Saskatchewan farmers indicated they planted more canola, spring wheat, durum wheat, barley, and mustard seed, and less lentils, dry field peas, oats, flax seed, and canary seed. Producers planted 12.4 million acres of canola […]

Closing grain prices Wednesday, June 28 Durum 396.61Feed barley 340.61Canola 713.92Chickpeas 1036.17Flax 501.98Lentils 732.50Oats 245.32Yellow Peas 351.61Feed Wheat 270.971 Red Spring Wheat 366.95

Rainfall was received in most regions of Manitoba this past week but amounts varied by region from low levels to excessive. Areas that did receive significant rainfall have commented the crops have improved slightly from the previous week. Crop development has been rapid but there is some concern for producers choosing to spray for fusarium […]

Opening grain prices Wednesday, June 28 Durum 396.61Feed barley 340.61Canola 713.62Chickpeas 1036.17Flax 501.98Lentils 732.50Oats 245.32Yellow Peas 351.61Feed Wheat 270.971 Red Spring Wheat 370.51

The 45th annual Canada’s Farm Show in Regina has come and gone, and Regina Exhibition Association Limited (REAL) is calling it an enormous success. Numbers from REAL in a news release show a 20 percent increase in attendance, over 350 exhibitors were at the show, and over $81-million in sales were secured. “We’re very happy […]

Dry conditions in much of the Prairies this spring may leave seeding areas relatively unchanged ahead of Statistic Canada’s principal field crop report, due to be released tomorrow (Wed). It will be the second survey-based acreage report for the 2023-24 marketing year, after the first one was released in April. While growing conditions have been dry […]