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Recipe Swap: Use perimeter vision to make over your grocery cart

By Lorraine Stevenson March 16, 2013

What’s your route through your grocery store? If you travel its outer edges, and buy most of your groceries there, you’re going the right direction, according to dietitians who are encouraging us to shop a store’s perimeter more often during March Nutrition Month. That’s where the fresh, unprocessed foods, like raw fruit and vegetables, and

Crops, Oilseeds

Study finds wild bees boost crop yields

By Victoria Paterson March 16, 2013

Wild bees and other pollinating insects can make quite a difference when it comes to crop yields, according to a new study. “Our message is not that honeybees are bad — it’s that we could do better if, in addition, we were encouraging more activity by wild insects,” said Lawrence Harder, a professor of biological

Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets, News, Oilseeds

Speculators’ chart-based interest punches up canola

By Dwayne Klassen March 16, 2013

Support in the outside oilseed markets allowed canola futures on the ICE Futures Canada platform to push slightly higher during the week ended March 8. Strength in canola earlier in the week was derived from chart-based buying by speculative and commodity fund participants. Steady demand from the domestic and export sectors, combined with concerns about

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Farmers urged to consider forming one, national association

By Allan Dawson March 16, 2013

Manitoba producer Danny Penner says there would be less duplication and better use of checkoff dollars

A Manitoba farmer mounting an effort to create one big commodity association says a splintered voice is not only expensive, it could cost farmers control of their industry. As the number of commodity organizations collecting checkoffs continues to grow, a 5,000-acre Manitoban farmer can be paying around $20,000 a year in checkoffs, said Danny Penner,

Cereals, Crops, Oilseeds

Grain World: Canadian canola acres shifting into wheat

By Phil Franz-Warkentin March 16, 2013

Canadian farmers will plant more spring wheat and less canola in 2013, said Brenda Tjaden Lepp, chief analyst with FarmLink Marketing Solutions in a presentation at the annual Wild Oats Grain World conference in Winnipeg, Feb. 25. Factoring in relative returns, rotational issues, and what she was hearing from clients, Tjaden Lepp forecast spring wheat

Crops, Oilseeds

Processor says Prairie soybean seedings could soon hit four million acres

By Phil Franz-Warkentin March 16, 2013

CNSC / Soybean acreage in Western Canada could quadruple over the next four to five years, and surpass the four-million-acre mark, according to the president of Manitoba soybean processor Delmar Commodities. Soybean production in Manitoba has grown steadily over the past decade, with acreage in 2013 forecast in the 1.0 million to 1.2 million range,

Crops, Oilseeds

Increasing Chinese demand could see flax acreage increase in Alberta

By Terryn Shiells March 16, 2013

CNSC / Increased Chinese interest in flax is creating new opportunities for growers on the west side of the Prairies. A small flax processor in Alberta recently offered fairly attractive new crop contracts for movement to China, said Jonathon Driedger, an analyst with FarmLink Marketing Solutions. “In the past, you’d see those kinds of contracts

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Canola growers executive for 2013

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff March 16, 2013

The Manitoba Canola Growers Association elected Starbuck farmer Ed Rempel to serve as president for 2013 at its Feb. 27 annual meeting. Rempel will be joined on the executive by Brian Chorney of East Selkirk as vice-president, Hugh Drake from Elkhorn as treasurer and Wilf Harder from Lowe Farm as secretary.

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U.S. crop insurance guarantees push big acres

By Julie Ingwersen March 16, 2013

Reuters / Crop insurance that guarantees prices for the 2013 growing season should encourage U.S. farmers to again plant a large number of acres, with soybeans possibly claiming ground from corn, analysts said. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Risk Management Agency set the guarantees March 1, which act as the “floor price” for crop insurance

Crops, News, Oilseeds

Farmers locked in acres last fall with fertilizer applications

March 16, 2013

chicago / reuters / Recent declines in U.S. corn futures prices have failed to dent growers’ enthusiasm for planting the feed grain this spring, even though soybean prices have outperformed corn, farmers and analysts said. Crop insurance guarantees, money spent on fertilizer and recent rainy weather in key growing areas have cemented the acreage decisions

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Canadian Cattle Association won’t back traceability changes

Farmers’ Almanac rescued from closure; fate of Canadian content unknown

Do More Ag to fund rural groups’ mental health workshops

Oilseeds

Recipe Swap: Use perimeter vision to make over your grocery cart

Study finds wild bees boost crop yields

Speculators’ chart-based interest punches up canola

Farmers urged to consider forming one, national association

Grain World: Canadian canola acres shifting into wheat

Processor says Prairie soybean seedings could soon hit four million acres

Increasing Chinese demand could see flax acreage increase in Alberta

Canola growers executive for 2013

U.S. crop insurance guarantees push big acres

Farmers locked in acres last fall with fertilizer applications

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