Crops

Turkey’s president says Russia has agreed to extend a deal that has allowed Ukraine to ship grain through the Black Sea to parts of the world struggling with hunger. The deal will extend the agreement by two months. It’s not clear if any concessions were made to Russia. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan thanked Russian […]

Seeding progress across Manitoba is moving at a rapid pace with the recent warm weather. In the northwest, it was a warm and windy week across the region with the exception of a storm that rolled through parts of the region midweek. The Dauphin-Ste. Rose area received approximately 30 mm of rain with Drifting River station receiving 48 […]

Teaching the next generation about agriculture is the purpose of the Swift Current Ag & Ex’s Discover the Farm: A Farm Facts Experience Show, held in late-April. The organization says on its website one of the goals is to “encourage youth involvement in agriculture, as well as expand their knowledge of food production, farm safety, […]

Minnesota farmer James Wolf pleaded guilty Friday to one count of wire fraud in connection with an alleged organic crops conspiracy, following a change-of-plea hearing in a federal court. Under federal law, wire fraud is a Class C felony punishable by up to 20 years in prison, three years of supervised release and 250 thousand dollars in […]

The rapeseed crop in the United Kingdom is estimated at 66 per cent good to excellent. The U.S. Department of Agriculture attaché in London, is forecasting production for 2023-24 to be 1.38 million tonnes. That would make for a 1.4 per cent increase over the 2022-23 crop. While the attaché pegged planted and harvest area […]

The U.N. aid chief says efforts will continue in the coming days to extend a deal allowing the safe Black Sea export of Ukraine grain. It’s a pact Russia has threatened to quit effective Thursday over obstacles to its grain and fertilizer exports. The final two ships are due to leave Ukrainian ports today under the […]

If the US Department of Agriculture is correct, the United States may be in the midst of growing record-breaking corn and soybean crops. On Friday, the USDA released its monthly world agricultural supply and demand estimates, which included its first U.S. production estimates for 2023-24. Corn is projected for a record-large crop of 15.265 billion bushels […]

CN and CPKC Rail supplied a combined 96% of hopper cars ordered in grain week 40, a slight improvement from the previous week’s 95% order fulfillment performance. The slight improvement reflects a small decline in performance for CN and a modest increase for CPKC. In supplying 97% of hopper cars ordered on time in week 40, CN’s […]

Sask Wheat has approved $1.6 million in funding over two years to the eight Saskatchewan AgriARM sites. Each site will receive $200,000 which is going towards extension capacity, purchasing new equipment and furthering agronomic research which can increase wheat and whole-farm profitability. AgriARM is a network of producer-directed applied research and demonstration organizations located across […]

The Government of Canada and Saskatchewan announced that 56 Agriculture Demonstration of Practices and Technologies program (ADOPT) projects and eight Strategic Field Program (SFP) projects received more than $1.4 million in funding in 2023. “Agricultural technology and best practices keep evolving, thanks to dedicated research across the country,” Federal Agriculture and Agri-Food Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau […]