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Feed Barley Exports Create Opportunities – for Sep. 23, 2010

By Ian White September 23, 2010

Extreme volatility in world grain prices has created significant price opportunities for Prairie farmers. While the dramatic market swings have presented new possibilities, it’s not easy to decide what to do – especially if your crop is not harvested. The Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) has been active during this period, working to maximize producer returns

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Agri-Food Research Team Links Up With Latin American Firm – for Sep. 23, 2010

By Lorraine Stevenson September 23, 2010

Manitoba researchers are working with a Latin American firm to commercialize healthier wheat and oat products, including a better bread for the second largest bread consumer in the world. The Consorcio de Cereales Funcionales SA., or “Functional Cereal Consortium” is a new company launched this summer as a joint venture between the Manitoba Agri-Health Research

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Futures Rise On Fallout From Frosts – for Sep. 23, 2010

September 23, 2010

Canola futures on the ICE Futures Canada trading platform experienced a significant push upward during the week ended Sept. 17, with much of the upward momentum linked to the frost which hit much of the Prairies. The frost which occurred overnight both Thursday and Friday of last week was said to have been significant, as

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High Prices Don’t Discourage Set-Aside Enrolment – for Sep. 23, 2010

By Charles Abbott September 23, 2010

Despite a late-summer surge in wheat prices, landowners offered to enroll 1.5 per cent of U. S. cropland in a federal program that pays them an annual rent for taking fragile land out of production. Some 4.3 million acres (1.7 million hectares) will be accepted of 4.8 million acres offered for the Conservation Reserve, said

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New Research Alliance Supports Field Crops – for Sep. 23, 2010

By Mpga Release September 23, 2010

The Manitoba Pulse Growers Association (MPGA) is pleased to support a $5.7 million funding partnership with the Government of Canada and the newly formed Canadian Field Crops Research Alliance (CFCRA). Funding for this project was made available through the Developing Innovative Agri-Products (DIAP) initiative from the Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s (AAFC) Growing Forward framework. The

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Ottawa Commits $11 Million To Cereal Breeding Research – for Sep. 23, 2010

By Allan Dawson September 23, 2010

The Western Grains Research Foundation (WGRF) will now directly manage publicly funded wheat breeding in Western Canada thanks to the creation of the Canadian Wheat Breeding Cluster, says foundation vice-chair and Dauphinarea farmer Don Dewar. The federal government is contributing more than $8 million to the cluster to go with wheat checkoff money collected by

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Crop Report – for Sep. 23, 2010

By Manitoba Agriculture September 23, 2010

SOUTHWEST REGION Rainfall throughout the southwest region limited harvest to a few days last week. Frost was recorded with temperatures dropping as low as -3 C. Cereal crop harvest ranges between 40 to 65 per cent complete. Many acres have been taken off tough with producers drying grain. Quality of all cereal crops remaining in

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Crop Report – for Sep. 16, 2010

By Manitoba Agriculture September 16, 2010

SOUTHWEST Rainfall over the past week limited harvest to only a couple of days. In most cases producers were harvesting damp to wet grain. Harvests of cereal crops vary from 70 per cent complete in the Killarney area and 40 to 50 per cent north of Souris, to less than 10 per cent harvested north

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U. S. Grain Elevators Brace For Huge Harvest – for Sep. 16, 2010

By Christine Stebbins September 16, 2010

U. S. grain handlers, already burdened with big wheat inventories, are bracing for a mammoth corn and soybean harvest across America’s heartland. Merchants will have to find room for 17 billion bushels of corn and soybeans – the largest U. S. harvest in history. A recent spike in U. S. exports after drought-stricken Russia announced

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World Bank Urges Transparency In Foreign Farmland Deals – for Sep. 16, 2010

By Tim Cocks September 16, 2010

The World Bank is urging greater transparency in land investment transactions to protect local land owners as the volume of foreign farmland investment in poor countries swells. Foreigners investing in agricultural land in developing countries should be open in their transactions and recognize the rights of existing owners to avoid weak governance, the World Bank

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New strategies needed for Canadian agriculture to stand out in global trade

Feed Grains Weekly: Cash prices for wheat, barley largely flat

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