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Renewed Food Inflation Risk As Funds Eye Edible Oils

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Less than two years after a surge in global food prices caused panic and riots around the world, investors are starting to return to vegetable oil markets and raising the spectre of renewed food price inflation. Billions of dollars change hands annually in the markets for palm, soybean and other vegetable oils, which are used
Crops, Oilseeds

Headline Gets Emergency Registration For Sunflower Rust

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“Do not panic but rather get out there and scout your field. Early detection is critical. Yield losses can be significant.” – NSAC REPORT BA S F ’s fungicide Headline (pyraclostrobin) has received an emergency-use registration to control sunflower rust, a disease that decimated some fields in Manitoba last year and could be a problem
Cereals, News, Oilseeds

New Crop Registration System Implemented

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“Eventually the seed industry will argue that their crop kinds all need to be moved to Part (Option) Three because the claim will be made that independent testing and committee structures are too slow and expensive.” – TERRY BOEHM The new “flexible” three-tiered crop variety registration system implemented by the federal government July 8 will
Grain Markets, Oilseeds

Soy Hits Six-Month High, Canola Doesn’t Follow

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For three-times-daily market reports from Don Bousquet and RNI, visit “ICE Futures Canada updates” at www.manitobacooperator.ca Grain and oilseed futures at the ICE Canada futures market closed the week ended April 17 mixed with canola moderately higher in the face of sharp gains in the U. S. soy complex. Commercial demand lifted the market with
Oilseeds, Opinion

Letters – for Mar. 5, 2009

Where’s the beef… plan? The Canadian Cattlemen’s Association (CCA) is very good at name-calling, but sadly lacking when it comes to laying out a coherent plan for increasing the money that farmers and ranchers are receiving for cattle sales. The CCA affiliates in each province except Alberta collect a checkoff of $2 per head for
News, Oilseeds

Snapshots Of Going Organic In Manitoba

A farm-based processor There’s more money to be made in processing.” Gerard and Marie-Paule De Ruyck began the switch to organic on their Swan Lake farm in 2001. That year they broke up 25 acres of pasture, sowed and harvested what turned out to be a very good field of oats and never looked back.
News, Oilseeds

Sunflowers average in 2008

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Manitoba farmers harvested a generally average sunflower crop in 2008, despite ongoing disease and insect problems. Producers reaped an average 1,480 pounds per acre of confectionery and oil-type sunflowers from 182,000 planted acres, according to provincial crop insurance figures. That compared favourably with the long-term four-year average yield of 1,460 pounds per acre from an
Oilseeds, Other

Steps to mitigate sunflower rust next year

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“Sunflower rust does not require an alternate host like cereal rust does.” – KHALID RASHID Sunflower rust cut yields and bushel weight significantly in some Manitoba fields this year. Seventy-four per cent of the sunflower fields surveyed in Manitoba this year had rust ranging from a trace to 40 per cent of the leaf area
News, Oilseeds, Pulses

Special crops symposium

There’s a new website available for producers to view information related to the Manitoba Special Crops Symposium next Feb. 11 and 12 at the Winnipeg Convention Centre. The new website, www.manitobaspecialcrops.ca, features details of the symposium organized annually by the Manitoba Corn Growers Association (MCGA), Manitoba Pulse Growers Association (MPGA), and National Sunflower Association of

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