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EU Grain Sale For Aid Will Distort Market

AEuropean Union plan to sell 1.5 million tonnes of surplus grain in the coming months to help the bloc’s poor will weaken feed prices and lead to more offers for EU intervention subsidies, member states warned. The EU in November agreed to sell cereals from its grain mountain to support the needy. Unusually, the sale
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Canola And Peas “Love” Each Other

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Results from intercropping trials are showing that planting two crops together offers higher yields than monocultures. It’s old hat for organic farmers, who have been seeding cover and relay crops since the days when Grandpa seeded peas and oats together, harvested them with a horse-drawn binder, and pitched the sheaves off a hayrack to his
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New Seed Treatment

Protinus, a seed nutrition product that promotes early plant growth has gained regulatory approval for sale in Canada, Wolf Trax has announced. “Protinus really stands out in tough early-season conditions. Given the substantial dollars that growers are spending on seed, a product that will enhance crop emergence and early-season growth is certainly of value,” says
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Better-Quality Winter Wheat Needs To Compete

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There’s a lot of medium-to low-quality wheat in the world, making it one of the most price competitive markets, according to Graham Worden, the Canadian Wheat Board’s (CWB) senior manager of technical services. Competitors include India, Russia and Ukraine and the United States produces millions of tonnes of good-quality milling winter wheat. “If we can’t
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Two New Winter Wheats Could Be Falcon Replacement

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Two new “select” winter wheats recently supported for registration – W434 and S01-285-7*R – look like good replacements for CDC Falcon, Manitoba’s most popular winter wheat. And with the Canadian Grain Commission (CGC) proposing to move Falcon from the Canada Western Red Winter (CWRW) wheat class to the Canada Western General Purpose (CWGP) wheat class
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Cwb Preparing For GP Wheat Exports

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The new Canada Western General Purpose (CWGP) wheat class was created for high-yielding wheats suited for the domestic livestock feed and ethanol markets, not human consumption. Nonetheless, the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB), which has a monopoly on the marketing of western Canadian wheat destined for domestic human consumption or export, expects there will be times
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Australia May Abolish Remaining Wheat Export Rules

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Australia’s wheat-marketi ng regulations should be abolished by September next year, the country’s Productivity Commission said in a draft report released March 22. It said the A$13.9-billion ($12.7-billion) industry, the world’s fourth-largest exporter of the grain, had proved adaptable following the end of a single-desk marketing system for bulk wheat since mid-2008. “The commission considers
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CWB’s 2009-10 Malt Barley Initials Raised

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Prairie barley growers will get a raise on initial payments on malting barley delivered to the Canadian Wheat Board for the 2009-10 crop year. The federal government approved and the CWB announced on March 12 that the 2009-10 initial payments for all grades and classes of designated barley will increase by $26.50 per tonne, effective
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U. S. Wheat Exports To Fade As Russia Flexes Muscle

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“(Russia is) essentially taking bushel for bushel market share away from the U. S. while we are focused on burning our food (as biofuel).” – BILL LAPP, ADVANCED ECONOMIC SOLUTIONS U. S. wheat production and slumping exports will continue to fade in coming years due to increasing competition in the global marketplace from lower-cost producers
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Algeria’s Grain Output Drive Starts To Pay Off

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Algeria is moving to slash grain imports in coming years as the government enacts urgent reforms to stop farm yields tumbling in times of drought. The authorities were shocked into action in 2008 when the national grain harvest slumped to 2.1 million tonnes and the government scrambled for foreign cereals to feed the population of

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