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StatsCan Acreage Data Released, Ignored

For three-times-daily market reports from Resource News International, visit “ICE Futures Canada updates” at www.manitobacooperator.ca. Canola futures on the ICE Futures Canada trading platform closed the week ended June 25 with advances. The nearby July contract managed to post the best advances in response to the buying back of previously sold positions. The rolling out
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Disease Threatens What’s Left

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From 10,000 feet, the muddy Prairie fields below soaked with unprecedented rains this spring can be described in one word: dismal. The Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) predicts farmers will seed only 19.2 million acres of wheat and 6.6 million of barley – the smallest acreages since 1971 and 1965, respectively. It estimates 8.5 million to
News, Oilseeds

French Firms Pull The Plug On Palm Oil

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French firms have stepped up restrictions on the use of palm oil, decried for being linked to deforestation in Asia, in a move that may boost demand for local oils. But some warned it could raise new food and land problems. The debate about palm oil’s impact on the environment has intensified after green groups
Crops, Oilseeds

Shape Foods Back With Skeleton Crew

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“We’re just in the process of getting some product put out in the marketplace.” – Jim Downey Brandon’s Shape Foods’ cash flow arteries may have clogged in the fall of 2008, but the company is now back on the road to health, according to its CEO. The $30-million flax-crushing plant built in 2006 on the
Crops, Oilseeds

Sunflower Quality Poor

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Manitoba’s sunflower crop turned out relatively poor this year, as growing conditions led to low yields and caused disease problems. As a result, premium prices are available for good-quality sunflower seed, and the tighter supplies will likely cause some processors to import more U. S. sunflower seed. Oilseed sunflowers in the Red River Valley and
News, Oilseeds

UAE Eyes Farmland Deals In Ukraine

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“Already we have received a lot of interest from the UAE to invest in Ukraine’s agriculture sector, and we are offering all kinds of projects such as leasing of 100,000 hectares of land to the creation of animal farms with 3,000 cows.” AUnited Arab Emirates delegation plans to visit Ukraine to look at opportunities to
Crops, Oilseeds

Manitoba Farmers Still Have Lots Of Crop To Harvest

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“We had four months of spring – April, May, June and July,” he said. “Then we had one month of summer, that would be September. And now we’ve gone straight into winter.” – Calvin Gust If you’ve still got crop out, you’re not alone. Two-thirds of the delegates attending the Keystone Agricultural Producers’ (KAP) meeting
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Most Crops OK Despite Frost – for Oct. 8, 2009

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“That (heat in) September saved us big time when it came to the corn crop.” – DAVID VAN DEYNZE, MASC Thanks to the warmest September on record, this fall’s first frost Sept. 29 did little or no damage to most Manitoba crops, including later-maturing ones such as corn, soybeans, edible beans and sunflowers. It didn’t

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