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Bigger and bigger and …

By Alan Guebert April 19, 2012

Two years ago March 12, trumpets blasted in Ankeny, Iowa, as America’s new gladiators for agricultural justice — U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, Jr., his antitrust chief Christine Varney, U.S. Department of Agriculture boss Tom Vilsack and hundreds of farmers — gathered for a day-long discussion on “competitive dynamics of the seed industry; trends in

Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets, Oilseeds

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

Crops, News

Millions of acres expected to exit U.S. federal conservation program

By Tom Polansek April 19, 2012

Reuters / North Dakota farmer Justin Zahradka will plant wheat this spring on 40 acres that has been off limits for two decades, protected by a government conservation program that is shrinking as high crop prices make farmland more valuable. The 18-year-old high school senior leased the land a year ago from a neighbour who

Cereals, Crops, News, Weather

Freezing temperatures drop on Kansas wheat fields

April 19, 2012

reuters / Potentially crop-damaging freezing temperatures descended on to western Kansas early April 16, where the new crop of hard red winter wheat was maturing rapidly, but wheat experts said the wheat likely held up well. “It can tolerate some pretty cool temperatures with little or no damage,” said Kansas State University agronomist Jim Shroyer.

Crops, News, Oilseeds

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

Crops, News, Oilseeds

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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Quick-cooking barley puts a modern spin on an ancient grain

By Daniel Winters April 16, 2012

Manitoba-made, value-added, hulless barley food product  offers ease of preparation, convenience and nutritional benefits

Everybody has to eat. On dinner plates around the world, there are three main types of starches: rice, potatoes and pasta. Now, after years of product development, Marvin Nakonechny, the CEO of Edmonton-based Progressive Foods, has an ambitious plan to add his company’s new, fast-cooking hulless barley product to that list. “I just want a

Crops, News

U.S. seeding ahead of normal

April 15, 2012

chicago / reuters / U.S. farmers had planted three per cent of this year’s corn crop by April 1, matching the fastest pace on record, as they took advantage of the warmest March on record to start running their planters early, according to U.S. Agriculture Department data issued April 2. A year ago, farmers had

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Trader sees Ukraine grain exports soaring by 2019

April 15, 2012

Ukraine harvested a record 56.7 million tonnes of grain in 2011 and the yield stood at 3.7 tonnes per hectare

Reuters / Ukraine could increase its grain exports to about 35 million tonnes by 2019 from about 20 million in the current season by boosting both the sowing area and yields, a large foreign grain trading house said March 14. Ivan Miroshnichenko, Black Sea regional director for Noble Resources Ukraine, told an international agricultural business

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Canada barley trade losing ground to Argentina

By Rod Nickel April 15, 2012

Reuters / Canada’s barley exports have dwindled to a fraction of their former might, as Argentina muscles in on trade and domestic cattle feedlots offer farmers better prices than exporters. Through March 25, Canada was on pace for exports of 1.3 million tonnes in 2011-12 similar to the past two marketing years, according to Canadian Grain

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Moroccan fertilizer maker OCP expects output to drop 30 per cent in Q2, sources say

Feed Grain Weekly: Demand rises despite war uncertainty

How farmers can manage stress, anxiety during spring seeding

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