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Drought Hurts Argentine Corn And Soy Crops

Lack of rain will cut Argentina’s 2008-09 soy output 10 per cent from the previous season to 41.7 million tonnes, according to a special report from the Rosario Grains Exchange March 3. Corn production in the South American country will be down 36 per cent in the 2008-09 season to 14 million tonnes, the report
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China Not Seeking Overseas Farms

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China is not pushing to expand overseas farming and Chinese companies are less active in their investment abroad because of concerns of potential political risks, a senior Agriculture Ministry official said March 3. To meet a perennial shortfall in soybean supply, China, the world’s largest soy importer, will continue to import from major growing countries
Dairy cattle, News, Oilseeds

Argentine Farm Conflict Calmed But Not Over

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Tensions between Argentina’s president and farmers who oppose her policies have been defused through deals on wheat prices and some exports, but the threat of market-disrupting strikes could easily reignite. Farm groups in agricultural powerhouse Argentina had threatened protests and aligned with opposition politicians against President Cristina Fernandez as they pushed for lower export levies
Oilseeds, Opinion

Letters – for Mar. 5, 2009

Where’s the beef… plan? The Canadian Cattlemen’s Association (CCA) is very good at name-calling, but sadly lacking when it comes to laying out a coherent plan for increasing the money that farmers and ranchers are receiving for cattle sales. The CCA affiliates in each province except Alberta collect a checkoff of $2 per head for
Cereals, News, Oilseeds

Farmers To Shun Grains For Cheaper Oilseeds

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Farmers will shun grains and turn to plant ing cheaper oilseed crops like canola and soybeans this year, Daniel Basse, president of Chicago-based research and advisory firm AgResource Company said Feb. 23. That will cause a shortage of grain supply late this year, Basse told farmers and analysts at the Canadian Wheat Board’s annual GrainWorld
Cereals, Grain Markets, Oilseeds

Mood In Grains Cautiously Upbeat

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For three-times-daily market reports from Don Bousquet and RNI, visit “ICE Futures Canada updates” at www.manitobacooperator.ca Grain and oilseed futures at ICE Futures Canada in Winnipeg closed the week ended Feb. 27 mainly lower on sluggish demand. Canola saw moderate declines despite the fact that the U. S. soy complex was higher and the Canadian
News, Oilseeds

Not Your Grandpa’s Crops

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Camelina, calendula, niger, zero-tannin fababeans and hemp are some of the non-traditional crops that have been sprouting up in Manitoba fields in recent years. All of them can be grown successfully in this region, judging from the results from the Western Ag Diversification Organization’s (WADO) test plots last year. Of them all, camelina has been
Cereals, News, Oilseeds

Oilseed Markets Under Pressure For Now

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Large global oilseed supplies, a lack of economic confidence, and expectations for increased world oilseed production, should all serve to keep U. S. soybean and Canadian canola markets under pressure through the first half of 2009, according to a U. S. analyst speaking at the Canadian Wheat Board’s annual GrainWorld Conference in Winnipeg, Feb. 23.
Cereals, News, Oilseeds, Other livestock

What’s Up – for Mar. 5, 2009

Please forward your agricultural events to [email protected] call 204-944-5762 March 5 – Canola College 2009, Victoria Inn, 3550 Victoria Ave. W., Brandon. Registration $100. For more info visit http://www.canolacouncil.org/canola_college_2009.aspx. March 5 – Manitoba Buckwheat Growers Association annual meeting, 9:30 a. m. to 3 p. m., University of Manitoba Ian Morrison Station, Carman (one mile west
Cereals, News, Oilseeds

Biotech Corn, Soy Laying Foundation For GMO Wheat

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“It’s going to take a lot of production to feed the world and we will need biotechnology to feed the world of the future.” – STEVEN MERCER Growing global acceptance of genetically modified, or GMO, crops is laying the foundation for wider acceptance of GMO wheat, but the grain’s direct ties to the human food

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