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Aster yellows doesn’t strike often — but when it does…

November 21, 2012

Yes, 2012 was a bad year for aster yellows in canola, but we have to keep this disease in perspective. Sclerotinia and blackleg are potential threats each year, and remain the top two most important canola diseases. Aster yellows has had only four bad years on the Prairies to date: 1957, 2000, 2007 and 2012.

Livestock, Oilseeds, Opinion

Drought repercussions will weigh on livestock sector for months to come

By Gavin Maguire November 21, 2012

Low protein in soymeal and higher toxin levels in distillers grains add new challenges for pig, poultry and cattle feeders 

Reuters / The repercussions of this year’s drought across the U.S. Midwest will likely continue to affect the livestock feeding industry for many months to come. Drought not only impacted the quantity of crops produced but also quality, leading to abnormally low protein content in soybeans and higher-than-usual toxin levels in corn that stand to

Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets, News, Oilseeds

Bigger U.S. soybean crop eases tight world supply

By Charles Abbott November 21, 2012

The U.S. soybean crop is much bigger than expected, helping to ease a worldwide supply squeeze, thanks to late-season rains that offset the impact of the worst drought in half a century, the government said Nov. 9. In an report on crops around the world, the U.S. Agriculture Department raised its forecasts of global soybean,

Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets, Oilseeds

Super-storm Sandy and presidential speculation

By Dwayne Klassen November 15, 2012

CNS Canola futures on the ICE Canada platform suffered some significant losses during the week ended November 2 with the declines associated with market participants bailing out of long positions. The taking of profits accounted for a portion of this selling, but the inability of technical support to hold in a number of contracts, prompted

Crops, Oilseeds

Canola variety selection tool now live with 2012 results

By Canola Council Of Canada November 15, 2012

The tool includes an economic calculator, interactive maps, and the ability to refine searches by five traits

The online Canola Variety Selection tool is now live with data from the 2012 Canola Performance Trials (CPT), giving canola growers another tool to compare variety performance. The CPT provides science-based, unbiased performance data that reflects actual production practices. The selection tool provides comparative data on leading varieties and newly introduced varieties. The tool includes

Country Crossroads, News, Oilseeds

Nutrition and your vision

By Julie Garden-Robinson November 15, 2012

Vision acuity is measured on a 20/X basis, where the first number is the standard distance of 20 feet between the eye being tested and the eye chart. A person with 20/40 vision can see clearly at 20 feet what a person with normal vision would see at 40 feet. Eyeglasses and contact lenses can

News, Oilseeds

New “Mother Earth” law bans GM crops and threatens Bolivia’s farm sector

By Helen Popper November 15, 2012

Bolivian soybean farmers are urging leftist President Evo Morales to reconsider a ban on genetically modified crops. The Andean nation is a small producer of soybeans compared to neighbours Brazil and Argentina, but output and exports of the oilseed have jumped in recent years due to improved crop yields and bigger plantings. Production should reach

Cereals, Crops, Oilseeds

Syngenta to enter Prairie canola seed market

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff November 15, 2012

Syngenta plans to broaden its canola portfolio beyond chemicals and launch its own new canola seed varieties on the Prairies starting next fall. “This is an exceptional time to be in the canola seed market, given the extent of breeding and varietal development activities going on across the country,” Dave Sippell, Syngenta’s head of diverse

Cereals, Crops, News, Oilseeds

Churchill port wraps up its shipping season

By Phil Franz-Warkentin November 15, 2012

Grain shipments through Churchill have fallen this year, but officials say they’re encouraged because the port attracted new customers and shipped a greater variety of products. “It was a successful year,” but “probably not as successful as we would have liked it to be,” said Jeff McEachern, executive director of the Churchill Gateway Development Corporation.

Crops, News, Oilseeds

Monsanto’s dicamba-tolerant soybeans approved

November 15, 2012

Monsanto Company’s dicamba-tolerant soybean product has received full food, feed and environmental release approval from Health Canada (HC) and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA). The approval brings Monsanto Canada one step closer to introducing dicamba tolerance stacked with Monsanto’s existing Genuity(R) Roundup Ready 2 Yield(R) trait technology in soybeans. Plans are to commercially brand

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Argus cuts Ukraine wheat crop forecast on lower harvest area

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Southern California honeybees show resistance to varroa mites

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