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Can Old-Crop Canola Be Facing $7.50 A Bushel?

By Don Bousquet April 2, 2009

Grain and oilseed futures at ICE Futures Canada in Winnipeg c losed the week ended March 27 lower, with losses in the Chicago market and the firm Canadian dollar weighing on values. Canola posted small losses as sluggish export demand also weighed on prices. China has indicated its canola buying in April will fall to

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Viterra Joins Winter Wheat Campaign

April 2, 2009

A program aiming for 100,000 new acres of winter cereals seeded across Western Canada this fall now has Viterra on board as its “premier delivery partner.” Ducks Unlimited and Bayer CropScience in mid-January launched “Winter Cereals: Sustainability in Action,” a program to increase winter cereals acres across North America, to which Bayer pledged $20 million

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Forages Could Reduce Canola Yield

By Alexis Kienlen April 2, 2009

“Information about placing canola on forages is very limited, so caution is a definite must here.” Producers who have made the decision to put canola into fields previously in forages do so with a degree of risk, says Anastasia Kubinec, oilseed business specialist with Manitoba Agriculture. “Information about placing canola on forages is very limited,

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Canola Acres Affected By Price And Rotation

By Phil Franz-Warkentin April 2, 2009

Industry analysts say rotation issues and prices may crimp federal forecasts for record canola acreage this year. In its latest supply/demand estimates Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s market analysis division forecast seeded Canadian canola area in 2009 at a record 17.235 million acres. That would compare with the previous record set in 2008 of 16.159 million.

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Triticale Best Choice For Bioeconomy

By Sarah Sutton April 2, 2009

“Triticale is the best choice for carbohydrate production. It yields 20 per cent more than other cereals.” Triticale has a bright future due to $15.5 million in new funding from the federal government, says one of two science directors in the new Canadian Triticale Biorefinery Initiative. “Triticale is a high-yielding crop that produces a large

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Report Rips Tories’ CWB, CGC Policies

By Alex Binkley April 2, 2009

“Piece by piece, the minority Conservative government under Stephen Harper is dismantling Canada’s highly successful grain system.” The Canadian Grain Commission and the Canadian Wheat Board are essential to the export success of Prairie farmers but the Harper Conservatives are trying to destroy them, a report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives says. The

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Canada’s Share Of World Wheat Market Drops

By Dwayne Klassen April 2, 2009

Shares of the world wheat market in the upcoming 2009-10 crop year are expected to decline for both Canada and the U. S. from 2008-09, with the EU-27, Ukraine, Russia and Argentina picking up most of that decline. The five top major wheat-exporting countries include the U. S., Canada, Australia, the EU-27 and Argentina, according

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Arborg Farmer Developing Rice Of The Prairies With Oat Variety

By Lorraine Stevenson April 2, 2009

“People are going to say ‘what is it?’ That’s going to be the biggest hurdle.” Hulless oats are good feed for pigs and poultry. They help racehorses run better too. But do they taste good? The pig, chicken or horse will never tell, but judges at a food competition later this month might. They’ll be

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Flood Won’t Affect Wheat Prices

By Mark Weinraub April 2, 2009

Severe flooding in the upper reaches of the United States cutting spring wheat plantings by 500,000 acres will be overwhelmed by plentiful global supplies that will keep the pressure on prices. The Red River Valley, a top spring wheat-growing area stretching from western Minnesota to eastern North Dakota and north into Manitoba, Canada, is braced

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Scientists Join In Battle To Head Off Ug99

By Mica Rosenberg March 26, 2009

Amutant form of stem rust that wipes out wheat crops could spread to top producers in Asia unless new resistant varieties of wheat are distributed widely, experts say. Stem rust “annihilates, that’s not an exaggeration,” said Rick Ward, a rust expert from Cornell University. “Basically the entire world’s wheat crop is fertile breeding ground,” Ward

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U.S. livestock: Cattle, hog futures rise on first WASDE since September

U.S. export sales include only small soybean business to China

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

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