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Proposed Vancouver grain terminal has great rail connections

The Fraser River Terminal will be served by four railways and there are no bottlenecks, a company official says

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A spokesman for one of the companies behind the proposed Fraser Grain Terminal says the facility will be efficient and state of the art. Casey McCawley, Parrish & Heimbecker’s (P&H) director of West Coast operations and a director of the terminal to be co-owned by P&H and Paterson GlobalFoods (PGF), says that’s good news for
Corn growth has a sound that tells researchers a lot about how 
that process works.
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You really can hear corn grow

U.S. researchers say isolating this sound has given them 
surprising insight into plant growth

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There’s an old farmer’s tale that says, “On a quiet night you can hear the corn grow.” It may seem funny, but Douglas Cook at New York University and colleagues Roger Elmore and Justin McMechan, at the University of Nebraska were able to use contact microphones to directly record the sounds of corn growing. Corn
Bill Brown, Adjuvants Plus CEO.
Cereals, News

VIDEO: Fighting fungus with fungus

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Adjuvants Plus Inc. is working to register a new bio-control for fusarium head blight. Company president and CEO Bill Brown spoke about it at the 8th Canadian Workshop on Fusarium Head Blight on Nov. 22 in Ottawa. He sat down for an interview with Manitoba Co-operator reporter Allan Dawson to talk about how the product
Bill Brown, president and CEO of Adjuvants Plus Inc., explained his company’s new product called DONguard during the 8th Canadian Workshop on Fusarium Head Blight Nov. 22 in Ottawa. It’s a biocontrol for fusarium head blight. Brown said he hopes to have DONguard registered in Canada and the U.S. in 18 months.
Cereals, Crops

New product pits fungus against fungus

If DONguard gets into the plant first, it occupies the space fusarium would take and also consumes invading fusarium, according to the company that hopes to commercialize it

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A new weapon to battle fusarium head blight (FHB) fights fire with fire. The traditional tools have been agronomy, genetic resistance bred into new cultivars and fungicides — the latter sprayed on wheat and other cereal crops to protect them from the potentially devastating fungus disease that can cut yields and quality. But a fungus
The Alberta Wheat Commission wants wheat grading to be less subjective and more objective.
Cereals, Crops

Wheat Commission asks CGC for changes to wheat grading

The AWC says instrument-measured falling number and DON levels should replace 
visual proxies based on sprouting and fusarium-damaged kernels, respectively

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The Canadian Grain Commission (CGC) says it will look into the merits of including falling number and DON measurements as part of official western Canadian wheat grades, as requested by the Alberta Wheat Commission (AWC) last week. “Our GRL (Grain Research Laboratory) and Industry services officials will establish a team to look at implementing changes
More than 200 scientists from Canada and abroad attended the 8th Canadian Workshop on Fusarium Head Blight Nov. 20-22 in Ottawa. While the potentially devastating fungal disease is on the rise in Western Canada, more tolerant varieties are coming and agronomic techniques to manage the disease have improved.
Cereals, Crops, News

Fusarium conference hears of disease resurgence

Western Canada’s worst crop disease is still a serious issue, researchers say

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This was one of the worst years for fusarium head blight in western Canadian spring wheat — a sobering backdrop to the 8th Canadian Workshop on Fusarium Head Blight, held here Nov. 20-22. More than 200 scientists from Canada, the United States, Germany, England, Australia, Switzerland and beyond reviewed the latest research into fusarium head
VIDEO: What’s in your wheat?
Cereals, Crops

VIDEO: What’s in your wheat?

Cigi Analytical Services investigates gluten and more

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Sprout damage and gluten strength are perennial topics in Canadian wheat production, as well as at the Canadian International Grains Institute in downtown Winnipeg, where comprehensive testing can answer questions about quality. “Here in the lab we do mainly quality testing on wheat, flour, semolina, as well as some pulse crops,” said Robyn Makowski, a
A rendering of what G3’s proposed Vancouver grain terminal on the north shore of Burrard Inlet, will look like, if the project goes ahead. While G3 has most of the necessary permits for the project, there are still many details to work out before G3’s board of directors decides to start construction, says G3 official Brett Malkoske.
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A look at G3’s proposed new Vancouver grain terminal

A spiral track would allow trains to arrive on site, ease congestion elsewhere, 
and unload intact before returning to the Prairies

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G3’s proposed Vancouver grain terminal will be the most efficient in North America and maybe the world, Doug MacDonald told Prairie farm leaders touring the port Nov. 15. CN’s vice-president of bulk commodities made the comment as the group’s boat cruised by the Lynnterm break bulk terminal on the north shore of Burrard Inlet, where

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