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Australia’s GrainCorp, Cargill Reconfigure Partnerships

April 9, 2009

Global commodities firm Cargill Inc. and Australia’s GrainCorp Ltd. will end a grain-buying joint venture after the scrapping of Australia’s wheat export monopoly made the two competitors. Cargill will buy GrainCorp’s holding in Australian Grain Accumulation (AGA) Services for an undisclosed amount, GrainCorp said on April 3. GrainCorp will form a new grain-buying team, while

Cereals, Crops, News

Indians Call For Wheat Exports

By Mayank Bhardwaj April 9, 2009

Wheat purchases by Indian state agencies have started strongly in the new season, further boosting government stocks and leading to industry calls to allow exports after a two-year ban. Farmers in the key wheat-surplus states of Punjab and Haryana were expected to begin selling in early April as recent showers have delayed the harvest, but

Cereals, Crops, News, Oilseeds, Pulses

Competitive Improvements Depend On Your View

By Alex Binkley April 9, 2009

Farm groups trying to answer MPs’ questions about improving the competitiveness of producers have a lot of similar suggestions mixed with the occasional poke at the Canadian Wheat Board. Most have told the Commons agriculture committee the industry needs more basic research, expanded trade deals, better transportation and more domestic processing. They share considerable optimism

Cereals, Crops, News

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

Beef cattle, Cereals, Livestock

Good Bedding Improves Calf Survival Rates

By Kris Ringwall April 9, 2009

This spring is certainly one to remember. At the Dickinson Research Extension Center, calf death loss is just more than 11 per cent, almost quadruple the typical loss of three per cent for North Dakota Beef Cattle Improvement Association members. This does not make anyone very happy. In fact, it stings harshly. However, challenges abound

Cereals, News

Canadian Wheat Board Branding Effort Two Years Later

By Rod Nickel April 9, 2009

Amarketing strategy to give Canadian wheat an identity like the iconic Juan Valdez for Colombian coffee growers is a long-term attempt to increase demand, but one grain expert says it will be a stiff challenge. The Canadian Wheat Board, which has a government-granted monopoly on wheat and barley sales from Western Canada, the country’s major

Cereals, Crops, News, Oilseeds

Fewer Wheat/ Double-Crop Soy Sowings — Usda

April 9, 2009

Plantings of the eight major U. S. field crops are expected to be down in 2009 due to fewer wheat seedings and less double-crop soybean acreage, the Agriculture Department’s chief economist said April 1. USDA’s annual prospective plantings report indicated there will be a decline of 7.1 million acres, or 2.8 per cent, from 2008

Cereals, News, Oilseeds

Nexera Growing At Bunge Altona

By Allan Dawson April 9, 2009

The owners have changed a few times and so have the oilseeds it crushes, but the processing plant farmers built here in 1946 still epitomizes the concept of “value added.” In fact, this plant has been “value adding” since long before the words became part of the Prairie lexicon. Canola, the oilseed it processes almost

Cereals, News

Grain Act Bill Dead Or Delayed

By Allan Dawson April 9, 2009

“The key here is that this hoist motion actually kills the bill before it even has a chance to make it to committee.” – PIERRE LEMIEUX Opposition parties employed a rarely used parliamentary tactic to effectively kill the federal government’s proposed legislation amending the Canada Grain Act last week. Just as the government was preparing

Cereals, Opinion

Is This “Modernization?”

April 9, 2009

JOHN MORRISS EDITORIAL DIRECTOR While appointments to the Canadian Wheat Board have traditionally been at a reasonable arm’s length from politics (at least until the director appointments were hijacked by the current government), it’s always been understood that things are different at the Canadian Grain Commission. Appointments have almost always been given to those with

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Cereals

Australia’s GrainCorp, Cargill Reconfigure Partnerships

Indians Call For Wheat Exports

Competitive Improvements Depend On Your View

Australia Grain Farmers See Improved Prospects

Good Bedding Improves Calf Survival Rates

Canadian Wheat Board Branding Effort Two Years Later

Fewer Wheat/ Double-Crop Soy Sowings — Usda

Nexera Growing At Bunge Altona

Grain Act Bill Dead Or Delayed

Is This “Modernization?”

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