Editor's Rant: Cinquante! - Grainews
Jan 2, 2025 · With that earworm now lodged in place, we here at Grainews welcome the year 2025 — marking our 50th anniversary in print.. Now, our actual birthday doesn’t come around until this fall. In October 1975, the first edition of the paper rolled off the press with a front-page message from United Grain Growers’ (UGG) president Mac Runciman, in which he declared its purpose as “to provide ...
What the weed seed smasher survey says - Grainews
Dec 18, 2024 · A recent study conducted by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada provides a glimpse into why some Canadian producers are using harvest weed seed control, the effectiveness of the technology and some of the challenges associated with it.
Grainews' greatest hits: 2024 in review - Grainews
Dec 25, 2024 · The horsepower race is back on again, Jan. 16, 2024, page 1. For several growing seasons, our machinery editor Scott Garvey was observing a sort of holding pattern in the horses available from the major tractor manufacturers, but as 2024 approached, the machinery makers stopped holding their horses, cranking up the muscle on their flagship models, including some touching and even crossing the ...
Klassen: Feeder market has many factors to digest in 2025
Dec 31, 2024 · The feeder cattle cash and futures markets surged in December after the U.S. halted imports of Mexican feeder cattle on November 22 due to a case of New World screwworm in a Mexican animal.It will likely take three or four months for the governments to work out procedures and protocols so that U.S. feedlots can resume the imports from Mexico.
New pulses pending for 2025 - Grainews
Dec 4, 2024 · Canterra’s CS Prostar, shown here at the company’s site at Ag in Motion on July 17, is also marketed as an early-maturity variety, making it suitable for areas with a short growing season. photo: Dave Bedard CDC 6928 is a small red lentil variety with good yield potential, yielding nine per cent more than CDC Maxim. It has a seed size similar to CDC Simmie and is slightly taller than the ...
Pulse Weekly: Looking at price shifts in 2024 - Grainews
Dec 17, 2024 · Pulses in Canada had quite the year in 2024 with prices closing out the calendar year in the middle of their trading ranges. Production was higher on the year for most pulses. Dry pea output in Canada rose to just short of three million tonnes, up from the 2.61 million harvested in 2023, according to the Statistics Canada principal field crop report issued Dec. 5.
New soybean varieties for 2025 - Grainews
Sep 16, 2024 · Note: the following list includes only brand-new releases for 2025. BrettYoung. BY NEBO XT is an ultra-early variety with a relative maturity of 000.5 RM or 2150 CHU.This Roundup Ready 2 Xtend soybean has an attractive phenotype …
New tools could speed up development of cereal varieties
Jan 4, 2025 · Francois Eudes says climate change and extreme weather conditions are prompting plant breeders to look at some things in a new light including what works in other countries. photo: University of Saskatchewan Curtis Pozniak, a professor and director of the CDC at the U of S, says it takes, on average, eight to 10 years to develop a new variety, which means breeders need to “have a bit of a ...
Can John Deere’s See and Spray system more than pay for itself?
Dec 19, 2024 · Deere’s system uses artificial intelligence and machine-based learning to identify weeds in a growing crop and make targeted applications.. The Iowa trials consisted of five fields, totalling 415 acres, and the herbicide reduction in each over the course of the 2024 growing season ranged from a high of 87.2 per cent to 43.9.
Practical Production Tips & Agricultural News - Grainews
Grainews, written for farmers, and often by farmers, provides practical production tips that farmers use to get on with the day-to-day business of farming.