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South American soy crop outlook worsens

April 15, 2012

Hamburg / Reuters /Soybean crops in Argentina and Brazil have suffered from more poor weather and harvest forecasts for the two countries may have to be cut by a combined two million to three million tonnes, Hamburg-based oilseeds analysts Oil World said April 3. “New reports have been received confirming additional crop losses, further eroding

Cereals, Crops, News, Oilseeds

Quality assurance through world-class research stands the test of time

April 7, 2012

By Val Ominski The bright blue paint, on the Allis Chalmers roll stands, looks conspicuously out of place among the gleaming modern metal in the pilot-scale flour mill on the 16th floor of the CGC Grain Research Lab. Miller Dave Turnock thinks they are about 80 years old and have also seen duty at the

Crops, Forages, News, Oilseeds

Nufarm’s new soybean herbicide

By Allan Dawson April 8, 2012

Manitoba soybean growers have a new herbicide option. Nufarm’s Valtera, with the active ingredient flumioxazin, controls a number of broadleaf weeds early, while suppressing annual grasses such as green foxtail, says Myles Robinson, the firm’s Manitoba sales manager. “Soybeans do not like competition” and that’s why early weed control can pay off in higher yields,

Crops, News, Oilseeds, Pulses

Edible bean acreage set to rise, but only modest increase expected

By Phil Franz-Warkentin April 7, 2012

Edible bean supplies are very tight in southern Manitoba and although higher acreage is anticipated, better prices for other commodities will limit the increase, says bean merchant Tina Scott. Farmers in the province grew only 51,000 acres of edible beans in 2011, after planting a more average 146,000 the previous year. “Last year was an

News, Oilseeds

Farm leaders waiting to see how budget cuts play out

By Alex Binkley April 7, 2012

Agriculture Canada will have its $3-billion-a-year budget chopped by 10 per cent during the next few years — but details are scarce. Both the Canadian Federation of Agriculture and Grain Growers of Canada said they wouldn’t judge the budget until they learned more about how the reductions will be implemented. “Although on the surface the

Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets, News, Oilseeds

Fewer U.S. soybean acres bode well for canola

By Phil Franz-Warkentin April 7, 2012

ICE Futures Canada canola contracts climbed sharply higher during the week ended March 30, hitting their strongest levels in over six months and settling just below contract highs on Friday. Canola first rose on the back of the tightening supply situation in Western Canada and solid export demand, but saw another leg up when a

Crops, News, Oilseeds

Flax plant’s future up in the air

By Daniel Winters March 29, 2012

The flames that consumed the Glanbia flax-processing plant south of Angusville were doused last week, but a smouldering sense of uncertainty lingers. The plant formerly owned by Glen and Linda Pizzey was the largest employer in the RM of Silver Creek, providing not only 58 good-paying, full-time jobs, but also a large chunk of the

Crops, News, Oilseeds

New technology focuses on native gene manipulation

By Shannon VanRaes March 29, 2012

The pace of canola seed innovation has increased dramatically over the last 10 years, but that doesn’t mean the industry can take a break or rest on its laurels. As canola production and consumption has increased over the last four or five years, the amount of soybean oil used worldwide has dropped by four billion

Crops, News, Oilseeds

CDC Triffid contamination on the decline

By Allan Dawson March 29, 2012

Officials from Canada’s flax industry are in Europe this week to brief government and industry officials on the progress Canada is making removing traces of CDC Triffid, a genetically modified (GM) flax, from Canadian flax. “It’s getting less and less frequent and less and less intense,” Flax Council of Canada president Will Hill said in

Livestock, News, Oilseeds

Think you know what the future holds? Think again, says bestselling author

By Shannon VanRaes March 29, 2012

Crop-guzzling equines once posed serious risk to human health in major cities before an unlikely saviour appeared

Next time someone tells you what the future holds, think manure. Literally. That’s the advice of writer Stephen Dubner, who used the tale of a century-old manure crisis to illustrate the folly of predicting what lies ahead. “Human beings are terrible at predicting the future,” the journalist and co-author of Freakonomics told attendees at the

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Oilseeds

South American soy crop outlook worsens

Quality assurance through world-class research stands the test of time

Nufarm’s new soybean herbicide

Edible bean acreage set to rise, but only modest increase expected

Farm leaders waiting to see how budget cuts play out

Fewer U.S. soybean acres bode well for canola

Flax plant’s future up in the air

New technology focuses on native gene manipulation

CDC Triffid contamination on the decline

Think you know what the future holds? Think again, says bestselling author

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