Better growing conditions in Western Canada helped to push national wheat production for the 2022 growing season to the third largest on record, Statistics Canada’s production of principal field crops for November 2022, said. Canadian farmers reported producing...
A high proportion of the 2022 Canadian wheat crop has been graded in the top two grades, making for am excellently rated crop, a Nov. 23 news release from Cereals Canada said. There was high protein content across all Canadian wheat classes recorded. “The New...
CN Rail set a record for weekly grain movement during the week of Oct. 16, an Oct. 24 news release said. The company moved 806,000 metric tonnes of grain from Western Canada, beating its previous record of over 50,000 metric tonnes. The release noted this was the 12th...
Harvest in Alberta is practically complete for year and has finished two to three weeks ahead of the 10-year average, the Oct. 11 provincial crop report said. The report noted that harvest is even ahead of last year, which was another advanced year in regard to...
Final estimates of Alberta dryland crop yields are above the five-year averages for all regions and for the province, the Oct. 4 provincial crop report said. The provincial dryland five and 10-year yield indices indicate provincial yields are 10 per cent above the...
Farmers in Alberta now have 88 per cent of the province’s crops combined and in the bin, the Sept. 27 provincial crop report said. This is up from 76 per cent the previous week. Spring wheat, barley and dry peas are nearing completion at 95, 95 and 99 per cent...