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Grain Sector Better Off Than Many During World Recession

By Allan Dawson April 16, 2009

“It’s really an exciting time for agriculture and producers. If corn gets too cheap ethanol will bring it back and wheat and soybeans will follow corn.” – KENDELL KEITH Recession or not, people still have to eat and that bodes well for the world’s grain sector, three panelists told the Canada Grain Council’s 40th annual

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New Glenn CWRS Wheat Rated “Fair” For FHB Tolerance

By Allan Dawson April 16, 2009

“We think best management practices still need to apply (with Glenn) and that may include using a fungicide at relevant times. By no means do we think the farmer can walk away from the agronomics and think that the product is going to look after itself.” – RICHARD KIEPER Glenn, a newly registered Canada Western

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Viterra Rolls Out Weed Killers For Wheat, Peas

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff April 16, 2009

Viterra has added a Group 1 herbicide for wheat growers and a Group 2 broadleaf and grassy weed product for field pea and bean crops to its new roster of company-branded crop protection products. Foothills contains the Group 1 active ingredient clodinafoppropargyl, the same used by Syngenta in its Horizon products. It’s registered for use

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Increasing The Value Of Canadian Wheat

By Teresa Falk April 16, 2009

Gregory Penner sees the removal of kernel visual distinguishability (KVD) as a turning point for western Canadian wheat production. With funding assistance from the Manitoba Rural Adaptation Council (MRAC), Penner and a team of scientists at NeoVentures Biotechnology Inc. are developing a wheat variety identification technology that can replace KVD for the Canadian Western Red

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CBOT Says It Is Still The Global Benchmark

By K.t. Arasu April 16, 2009

Chicago Board of Trade, the world’s largest grain exchange, has no fear of its wheat contract being challenged as the global benchmark for prices by an upstart from Australia, a senior official told Reuters. Australia’s stock exchange operator, ASX Ltd., plans for its Hard wheat export futures contract to begin trading in May, opening up

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Poultry Processing To Roll Into B. C. Interior

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff April 16, 2009

The federal government’s plan to diversify parts of B. C. where the mountain pine beetle has eaten into the forestry sector will include funds for a mobile poultry-processing unit. The federal Western Economic Diversification department will put up $220,000 through its two-year, $33 million Community Economic Diversification Initiative (CEDI), for the Cariboo-Central Interior Poultry Producers

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Odds Against C-13 Becoming Law: CGC Chief

By Allan Dawson April 16, 2009

Bill C-13, the proposed legislation to overhaul the Canada Grain Act is unlikely to become law, according to Elwin Hermanson, chief commissioner of the Canadian Grain Commission (CGC). However, he told the Keystone Agricultural Producers’ (KAP) its study into alternatives to CGC security was not in vain. “I think the odds favour that the bill

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Argentine Farmers Turn Away From Wheat

By Helen Popper April 16, 2009

Parched soils, lack of credit and anger over government policy could lead Argentine farmers to plant less wheat this year when sowing begins next month in the key global exporter. Argentina’s last wheat harvest was the smallest since 1982 due to a harsh drought, compounding farmers’ reluctance to plant wheat after two years of government

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Weekend Storms Bring Cheer To U. S. Wheat Farmers

By Carey Gillam April 16, 2009

Oklahoma wheat farmer Keith Kisling had two words for the late winter snowstorm that swept across the U. S. Plains over the weekend: “Perfect timing.” After an extended run of an extremely dry winter, farmers throughout key winter wheat-growing U. S. states largely welcomed the several inches of snow, ice and rain that hit March

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Australia Grain Farmers See Improved Prospects

April 9, 2009

Rain, lower input costs, a weaker Australian dollar and reduced interest rates have made Australia’s grain farmers more confident about prospects for the next 12 months as they prepare to plant winter crops such as wheat. But for all farmers, confidence fell to a two-year low in the March quarter on worries about global markets

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U.S. corn and soybean yields revised down by USDA

JBS profit falls amid still-challenging US market environment

U.S. grains: Soy hits 17-month high, corn to four-month top as trade braces for U.S. data

Cereals

Grain Sector Better Off Than Many During World Recession

New Glenn CWRS Wheat Rated “Fair” For FHB Tolerance

Viterra Rolls Out Weed Killers For Wheat, Peas

Increasing The Value Of Canadian Wheat

CBOT Says It Is Still The Global Benchmark

Poultry Processing To Roll Into B. C. Interior

Odds Against C-13 Becoming Law: CGC Chief

Argentine Farmers Turn Away From Wheat

Weekend Storms Bring Cheer To U. S. Wheat Farmers

Australia Grain Farmers See Improved Prospects

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