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Canola - Sunflower Rotation Shows Potential In Saskatchewan

1/10/2019

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Published: Tuesday, 08 January 2019 11:26
Written by Glenda-Lee Vossler

Now that clubroot is becoming more of an issue in the province some farmers are looking for other cropping options for this year.

In Saskatchewan, visible symptoms of clubroot have been confirmed in 43 commercial canola fields and the clubroot pathogen was confirmed in soil samples from an additional three fields that did not have visible clubroot symptoms. 

Canola has often been considered a cash crop for producers and as a result, some producers started tightening up or pushing their canola rotation which increases disease potential.

Sherrie Roberts is a Crop Extension Specialist with the Ministry of Agriculture and says farmers need to recognize the importance of crop rotations especially with Canola and sunflower is a viable option.

“The main thing to remember if you’re going to put sunflowers into your rotation is the location of your fields. You really don’t want to put them in an area where you have a lot of small sloughs or areas where your blackbirds might congregate as they are subject to wildlife damage.”

One advantage with sunflowers is that it’s one of the last crops to harvest and can even be harvested in December or January.

While still small in acreage to other crops, we are starting to see sunflowers grown throughout Saskatchewan, with marketing opportunities for the seed within the Province and the U-S.

In the past seed availability and varieties have impacted sunflower production in the province but new options are becoming available.

The Saskatchewan Sunflower Committee is holding its Annual Meeting on Thursday (January 10) at the SCIC Building in Regina.

Producers will have a chance to learn more about the crop, agronomy, research and variety trials that are taking place.


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Canola Council Promotes Value Of Canola Meal To Dairy Industry

1/7/2019

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The Canola Council of Canada (CCC) is continuing to demonstrate the value of canola meal for dairy producers.

Gordon Speirs, a dairy manager at Shiloh Dairy in Wisconsin, participated in a recent on-farm trial where canola meal was fed at high inclusion rates.

“Canola contributes to cost-efficient production. We no longer have to source and store expeller soybean meal,” he said.

The Canola Council of Canada (CCC) conducted the on-farm trial with the help of GPS Dairy Consulting, a group of independent dairy nutritionists in Wisconsin. The purpose of the trial was to determine whether producers could increase efficiency by replacing multiple high-priced protein sources, such as animal protein blends and treated soybean meal, with canola meal while maintaining milk yield.

Two Wisconsin dairies volunteered to participate in the trial. The trial rations replaced animal protein and high-bypass soybean meal with canola meal and rumen-protected lysine.

Results from both dairies showed the following:

- The trial ration was comparable in price or less expensive;
- Their yield weight of milk, fat and protein increased – including a daily milk increase of nearly 2 litres per cow on farm one and 3.5 litres per cow on farm two; and
- The additional canola meal allowed them to streamline sourcing protein ingredients.

"Although the field trials were small, we are encouraged by the positive results, and will continue to research the uses of canola meal for dairy animals," says Brittany Dyck, canola meal manager with the CCC.

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Manitoba Canola Production Up In 2018

1/2/2019

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Published: Tuesday, 01 January 2019 03:00
Written by Cory Knutt

Canola production in Manitoba rose 5.4% from 2017 to 3.3 million tonnes in 2018, that according to Statistics Canada.

Delaney Ross Burtnack is the executive director of the Manitoba Canola Growers Association.

"This was certainly one of the better years in terms of acreage, it wasn't a record year, but still one of the high years. Canola production is definitely high and favoured in the province...Overall, it was strong."

Manitoba canola yields fell from 44 bushels per acre in 2017 to 43.3 in 2018.

Lower yields were offset by a larger harvested area, which increased by 224,100 acres to 3.4 million. Ross Burtnack expects to see similar acres in 2019.


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Agronomist Warns Farmers About The Spread Of Clubroot

12/20/2018

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Published: Monday, 10 December 2018 14:31
Written by Jessica Giles

Clubroot is often viewed as a Central Alberta problem, but the canola disease is spreading.

The Canola Council of Canada says the disease leads to swollen, deformed plant roots that restrict water and nutrient uptake, resulting in premature ripening or plant death.

Agronomy Specialist with the Canola Council of Canada, Dan Orchard, says in Alberta, clubroot's expanding at a rate of 30 kilometres per year.

"Don't wait until you see dead patches to go looking for clubroot. By then it's kind of like closing the barn door after the horse is out, so I think scouting diligently to find those symptoms before they appear above ground, and that's going to be a huge saviour."

Clubroot was found in a field southeast of Calgary back in September, which is the first year the disease had been confirmed in Rocky View County.clubroot canola council canada 001Clubroot photo courtesy of the Canola Council of Canada.

Orchard adds research shows the importance of crop rotations to prevent the disease.

"A two year break from canola and it seems 95, maybe even 99 per cent of the spores are not viable anymore. We didn't realize that, but there's been a few studies done now and they kind of agree with each other that a two year break is really, really valuable."

He says, it was originally thought spores lasted for 18 or 20 years, but now they know less than one per cent of spores live this long.

"We need that break to bring the spore load low enough that it's manageable enough going forward. Once you get a spore load in the millions and millions, that two years may not be enough, but for most of the prairies, a two year break is going to be sufficient to keep those spore loads low enough to manage."

For more scouting and management resources, you can visit clubroot.ca

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Alberta Farmer Wins The Canola 100 Challenge

12/19/2018

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Canola 100 winner, Merle Klassen, accepting his award at the Farm Forum Event in Calgary. Wednesday, December 5.

For the last three years, some Canadian farmers have been striving to grow a 100 bushels per acre canola crop.

It's all part of the Canola 100 Challenge, where they tried to produce the high yield over 50 continuous acres.

No one did crack the hundred bushels over the three years of the competition, but the overall winner with the highest yield was Linden area farmer, Merle Klassen, growing an 85.88 bushels per acre canola crop in 2017.

Klassen says, they used InVigor L233P and had a phenomenal growing season in 2017.

"We had near perfect conditions for our area. Eleven inches of water, we kept getting these predictions of mid 30's temperature while we were flowering, and we kept getting smoke coming over and held that temperature down. I think that was a big contributing factor to it."

He says, since the contest rules were the first farmer to reach 100 bushels, they got an early jump on harvest.

"It was a great year, so we thought what if someone else gets ahead of us, so we're going to just try it. We sprayed it at the correct time to speed maturity up, but then we jumped the gun a bit on actual harvest. We were there about a week before we should've been. The canola was dry, the plant wasn't, so we were fighting it with our combines. I'm pretty sure we were throwing some out the back, but we managed to get it done."

Klassen won the use of a full set of John Deere Equipment with a tractor, air seeder, high clearance sprayer, windrower and combine to put 100 hours on each unit.

garth hodges BASFglobalcanolamanager BASF Global Canola Manager, Garth Hodges.

The winner was announced at the Farm Forum Event in Calgary on Wednesday, December 5, where the BASF Global Canola Manager, Garth Hodges, was on hand to help present the award.

Hodges says, it was exciting to see the 2016, 2017 and 2018 winners all used InVigor varieties.

"You can imagine how many high fives and slaps on the back we have at the office and in the field. When you've won three years in a row, that's just not a lucky chance, that means that a number of people have put a lot of hard work into achieving that."

Hodges says, their varieties have the genetic potential to reach 100 bushels per acre, but the question is how to unleash it and protect it.

"I think the one thing for me is, how do we manage the sustainability? To me it's not about just achieving 100, but it's how can we ensure that there's sustainability in the things we're doing today."

Hodges says, it's inspirational to watch farmers push the envelope of their canola genetics through competitions like the Canola 100 Challenge.

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Weak dollar supports canola

12/11/2018

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The ICE Futures canola platform finished the day stronger, supported by a weak Canadian dollar. Trading was choppy in the last few minutes before market close.

The Canadian dollar fell below the 75 U.S. cents mark Monday, as tensions continue to rise over the arrest of Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou last week. China has warned Canada it could face severe consequences for the arrest.

Canola contracts found support from tightening spreads as participants are starting to roll their January positions forward into March. Spreads accounted for most of trade during the day.

Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) soybean and meal contracts were weaker, while soyoil contracts were stronger.

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) releases its monthly supply/demand report tomorrow, and pre-report positioning took place during the day in North American grain and oilseed markets.

About 32,757 canola contracts traded, which compares with Friday when 29,759 contracts changed hands. Spreading accounted for 26,924 of the contracts traded.

The USDA announced a 125,000 tonne sale of soybeans to unknown destinations for the 2018/19 crop year this morning.

Bloomberg reported that China will soon announce it will be resuming U.S. soybean purchases. Volume could be in the five to eight million tonne range, but it is still being decided as to whether or not they will lift 25 per cent tariff.

China imported 5.38 million tonnes of soybeans in November, according to the USDA. This is down 38 per cent from last year; it is the smallest monthly volume in two years and the smallest November volume since 2012. Year-to-date imports are down by four per cent.
CBOT corn prices finished the day in the red.

The USDA announced a flash sale of 1,645,920 tonnes of corn to Mexico this morning. This is the fourth-largest daily sale of corn on record since 1977.
Wheat futures in the U.S. finished the day weaker.
Winter wheat acres in Kansas are expected to be less than last year, due to a colder and wetter than average fall. This could see Kansas having the smallest wheat acreage number in more than a century.
Export prices of Russian milling wheat rose by US$3 per tonne last week to US$228 per tonne, following another sale to Egypt.

 

OUTSIDE MARKETS

Light crude oil nearby futures in New York was down $1.61 at US$51.00 per barrel.

In the afternoon, the Canadian dollar was trading around US74.74 cents, up from 75.19 cents the previous trading day. The U.S. dollar was C$1.3379.

 

Winnipeg ICE Futures Canada dollars per tonne.

Canola Jan 19 487.60s +2.10 +0.43%

Canola Mar 19 493.40s +1.10 +0.22%

Canola May 19 500.80s +0.80 +0.16%

Canola Jul 19 507.10s +1.30 +0.26%

Canola Nov 19 498.10s +0.10 +0.02%

 

American crop prices in cents US/bushel, soybean meal in $US/short ton, soy oil in cents US/pound. Prices are displayed with fractions (2/8, 4/8, and 6/8) instead of decimals. -2 equals .25, -4 equals .50, -6 equals .75. The “s” means it is the settlement.

 

Chicago

Soybeans Jan 19 909-6s -7-0 -0.76%

Soybeans Mar 19 922-6s -6-2 -0.67%

Soybeans May 19 935-4s -6-2 -0.66%

Soybeans Jul 19 947-2s -6-0 -0.63%

Soybeans Aug 19 951-2s -5-6 -0.60%

 

Soybean Meal Dec 18 307.9s -1.2 -0.39%

Soybean Meal Jan 19 310.0s -1.2 -0.39%

Soybean Meal Mar 19 313.9s -0.8 -0.25%

 

Soybean Oil Dec 18 28.52s +0.02 +0.07%

Soybean Oil Jan 19 28.76s +0.02 +0.07%

Soybean Oil Mar 19 29.02s +0.02 +0.07%

 

Corn Dec 18 374-2s +0-2 +0.07%

Corn Mar 19 384-0s -1-4 -0.39%

Corn May 19 391-2s -1-4 -0.38%

Corn Jul 19 397-6s -1-4 -0.38%

Corn Sep 19 398-4s -0-6 -0.19%

 

Oats Dec 18 282-4s +1-0 +0.36%

Oats Mar 19 289-0s +1-0 +0.35%

Oats May 19 291-2s +1-6 +0.60%

Oats Jul 19 286-6s +3-4 +1.24%

Oats Sep 19 273-6s +3-2 +1.20%

 

Wheat Dec 18 514-6s -4-6 -0.91%

Wheat Mar 19 525-2s -6-0 -1.13%

Wheat May 19 531-4s -4-4 -0.84%

Wheat Jul 19 537-2s -2-6 -0.51%

Wheat Sep 19 545-6s -2-4 -0.46%

 

Minneapolis

Spring Wheat Dec 18 580-0s -5-6 -0.98%

Spring Wheat Mar 19 575-2s -6-2 -1.07%

Spring Wheat May 19 580-2s -5-4 -0.94%

Spring Wheat Jul 19 586-0s -5-0 -0.85%

Spring Wheat Sep 19 593-2s -4-6 -0.79%

 

Kansas City

Hard Red Wheat Dec 18 482-6s -1-6 -0.36%

Hard Red Wheat Mar 19 510-2s -1-6 -0.34%

Hard Red Wheat May 19 521-2s -1-4 -0.29%

Hard Red Wheat Jul 19 530-6s -1-2 -0.23%

Hard Red Wheat Sep 19 544-2s -0-4 -0.09%

 

Chicago livestock futures in US¢/pound, Pit trade

Live Cattle Dec 18 117.575s -0.325 -0.28%

Live Cattle Feb 19 121.200s -0.325 -0.27%

Live Cattle Apr 19 123.600s -0.025 -0.02%

 

Feeder Cattle Jan 19 145.025s +0.650 +0.45%

Feeder Cattle Mar 19 142.750s +0.875 +0.62%

Feeder Cattle Apr 19 143.275s +0.750 +0.53%

 

Lean Hogs Dec 18 54.725s +0.475 +0.88%

Lean Hogs Feb 19 66.825s -1.050 -1.55%

Lean Hogs Apr 19 72.075s -0.250 -0.35%

 


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