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ICE set to introduce five new U.S. grain and oilseed contracts

By Christine Stebbins April 20, 2012

Reuters / ICE Futures US intends to begin offering five new U.S. grain and oilseed contracts, pending review by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. The contracts include U.S. corn, wheat, soybeans, soybean meal and soybean oil, IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) announced. Futures contracts are slated to be available on May 14, with options available May 15. “These contracts

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U.S. lapping up Canadian canola oil

By Rod Nickel April 20, 2012

Reuters / Canada’s canola crushers are processing the oilseed at a record-brisk pace, as demand for canola oil heats up among U.S. makers of biodiesel and food products like potato chips. The United States has long been a key export market for canola, Canada’s second-biggest crop after spring wheat, but its appetite has spiked in

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Manitoba filmmakers delve into alternative fuels

By Shannon VanRaes April 20, 2012

If you have a pile of mouldering Tim Hortons cups in your car, you might have a fuel source at your fingertips: some work required. It’s one of the alternative fuel sources explored in the Manitoba-made documentary, “Drive For Free: The Alternative Fuel Revolution.” “We like to do stories that kind of question the status

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Dominoes starting to fall as end of single desk draws nearer

By Allan Dawson April 20, 2012

Research and market development, keeping an eye on the railways,  and the fate of short line railways are just three of the issues KAP is trying to address

Manitoba’s farm leaders are scrambling to plug holes that will be left by the demise of the single-desk CWB. Research and market development, keeping an eye on the railways, and the fate of short lines were high on the agenda when Keystone Agricultural Producers delegates gathered at their General Council meeting last week. But challenges

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Prairie precipitation spurs new-crop canola selling

By Dwayne Klassen April 19, 2012

The divergence between old- and new-crop canola contracts traded on the ICE Futures Canada platform experienced a bit of a widening during the week ended April 13, as concerns about the record usage pace buoyed the nearby May and July futures. The deferred futures were undermined by an improvement in the soil moisture situation on

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Warning: Soil with seed can spread clubroot

By Allan Dawson April 15, 2012

Manitoba seed and potato growers are being warned about the risk clubroot-infected soil could get to their farm in the seed they bought for spring planting. The Manitoba Clubroot Action Team, consisting of representatives from the Manitoba government, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, and the Canola Council of Canada, issued the warning in separate letters to

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Farmers risk squeezing canola rotations into the yield loss zone

By Phil Franz-Warkentin April 15, 2012

Western Canadian farmers are expected to plant record canola acres this spring, but the tighter rotations may lead to other agronomic issues, crop specialists warn. After seeding a record 18.9 million acres of canola in 2011, Canadian farmers are poised to shatter that record in 2012. Industry participants are forecasting seedings in the 20-million- to

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Latest seeding estimates add another 600,000 acres for canola

April 15, 2012

Reuters / Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada has slightly raised its forecast for canola plantings, while trimming its wheat estimate. Dry conditions heading into planting season are expected to boost plantings of most major crops, after flooding wiped out millions of acres last year. The latest estimate pegs canola acreage at nearly 20.4 million acres, up

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Officials meet to discuss low-level GMO contamination

By Alex Binkley April 15, 2012

Government and farm officials are continuing their efforts to bring some clarity to the contentious issue of low-level presence of genetically modified organisms, but it’s not clear how much progress is being made. Officials from exporting and importing countries recently met in Vancouver to discuss how to prevent trade disruptions when trace levels of a

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Pre-seeding risk premium being built into canola

By Dwayne Klassen April 15, 2012

The nearby May and July canola contracts on the ICE Futures Canada trading platform suffered some minor declines during the week ended April 5, while the remainder of the futures saw small to modest advances. Profit-taking sparked some of the losses in the two nearby futures, as did an increase in hedge selling by grain

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Oilseeds

ICE set to introduce five new U.S. grain and oilseed contracts

U.S. lapping up Canadian canola oil

Manitoba filmmakers delve into alternative fuels

Dominoes starting to fall as end of single desk draws nearer

Prairie precipitation spurs new-crop canola selling

Warning: Soil with seed can spread clubroot

Farmers risk squeezing canola rotations into the yield loss zone

Latest seeding estimates add another 600,000 acres for canola

Officials meet to discuss low-level GMO contamination

Pre-seeding risk premium being built into canola

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