Bunge has resumed taking canola deliveries after a fire last week at the company's processing facility at Nipawin, Sask. Firefighters were called to the facility on Tuesday afternoon. The fire occurred in the crush plant. With canola harvest looming, the facility is partially operational, according to a Bunge spokesperson in St. Louis. "We plan to... Read More
Category: Western Canada
Claas is continuing its expansion in Western Canada, officially opening the doors to a new dealership in Alberta last week. Located in Crossfield, the new Alberta Ag Centre marks the first step in a new partnership between Claas of America and BayWa Ag, a flagship Claas dealer in Europe with headquarters in Munich. BayWa currently... Read More
Winter wheat acres in Western Canada have fallen by half over the last five years. According to Statistics Canada, just over 1.3 million acres of winter wheat were seeded in the fall of 2011, while only 635 thousand acres were planted in the fall of 2015 (see the chart below). Canola harvest timing and weather... Read More
Has anything received more talk and less action than Canada’s chronic farm labour shortage? The nagging disconnect between unemployed Canadians and job openings in agriculture hit me this week when Statistics Canada announced that the country had lost more than 31,200 jobs in July. The figure was a surprise to everyone. Economists had predicted a... Read More
It's hard to imagine a time before, at least, threshing machines. But the evolution of wheat is long, and complex. "Not many people know about the origin of wheat," says Mazen Aljarrah, plant breeder at the Field Crop Development Centre in Lacombe, in the following video. "Actually, it started maybe 10,000 years ago through a... Read More
There's a new foliar fungicide on its way to western Canadian growers. "Trivapro will be available for use in cereals, soybeans and corn," explains Syngenta's Rob Klewchuk, in this following interview. "There's three active ingredients — three modes of action." The active ingredients include: propiconazole (Group 3), azoxystrobin (Group 11), and the new succinate dehydro-genase... Read More
Grains blew through the first week of August like a night owl, trading well overnight before collapsing during most daylight hours. For once, wheat was the big winner of the week, up more than 2% on concerns over the crop coming off in Europe and substitution away from corn for feed demand pretty much all... Read More
If tansy ragwort is gaining a foothold in your pasture fields, it’s time to take action. The poisonous yellow-flowered plant has taken root in pastures and hayfields across North America and its liver-damaging alkaloids can kill livestock, explains Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs weed specialist Mike Cowbrough. In this video, Cowbrough offers tips... Read More
If you've been drooling over the tire inflation technology available overseas, you're in luck. Precision Inflation, LLC, is bringing that technology — the ability to change tire pressures from the seat — to North America. "So this technology has been in use in Europe for about 25 years, and 5 years ago, I started bringing... Read More
The Field Crop Development Centre (FCDC) and Lacombe Research and Development Centre hosted Lacombe Field Day on July 27 to showcase some of the work happening in central Alberta. And, for Flavio Capettini, head of research at FCDC, some of this year's excitement centres around a recently released barley variety. "We just released TR13609 —... Read More