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Beef cattle, Livestock, Livestock Markets, News

Sector’s profitable streak helpful for flood recovery

By Phil Franz-Warkentin April 15, 2012

Activity at cattle auction yards across Manitoba was somewhat subdued during the week ended April 6, with a number of facilities taking the week off ahead of the Easter long weekend. For what was traded, prices held relatively firm on lighter-weight cattle, with demand from eastern and western feedlots continuing to provide support. However, recent

Cereals, Dairy cattle, Hogs, Livestock, News, Opinion

Letters, April 12, 2012

April 15, 2012

Government should help fund transition Regarding the article, “Time to start thinking about group housing” (March 22, 2012), Bernie Peet is right to alert pork producers to the reality that gestation crates are on the way out. While transitioning to new housing systems, this is an opportune time for producers to improve housing conditions for

Hogs, Livestock, News, Opinion

Short-sighted solution to the wrong problem

By Laura Rance-Unger April 15, 2012

It would be giving the animal a gene, which nature made a mistake by not giving them.” If there is one sentence that captures why the world’s first GMO pig never made it to market, it would be this comment from one of the lead researchers on the University of Guelph project back in 2001.

News

World grain prices to stay strong

By Hugh Bronstein April 15, 2012

Reuters / World grain prices should remain “very firm” over the near term as demand from Asia exceeds forecasts and dry weather cuts into supply, the senior economist of the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said March 26. South American corn and soy yields took a beating from drought this season, while China’s rapidly

News

U.S. organic growers appeal court ruling

By Carey Gillam April 15, 2012

A group of U.S. family farmers said March 28 it is appealing its lawsuit against Monsanto Co. to challenge the company’s patents on technologies for genetically modified seeds. The group of organic farmers and seed dealers says its industry is at risk from Monsanto’s growing market dominance. “Farmers are under threat. Our right to farm

Crops, News, Weather

There’s talk but frost threat keeping seeding rigs in the shed

By Phil Franz-Warkentin April 15, 2012

Warm and dry conditions across Western Canada has sparked talk of an earlier-than-normal start to spring seeding, but crop specialists say it all depends on what happens next. “At this point, it’s really too early to say when guys will be out there seeding…,” said Pam de Rocquigny, an agronomist with Manitoba Agriculture. Weather over

Cereals, Crops, News

North Dakota wheat and durum acreage to rise

By Phil Franz-Warkentin April 15, 2012

Improved planting conditions will allow North Dakota farmers to seed more spring wheat and durum this spring, but corn will likely steal away potential acres. “Obviously (wheat) acres will be higher, just because so much was not planted last year,” said Jim Peterson, marketing director with the North Dakota Wheat Commission. Five million acres of

Cereals, Crops, News

Japan to import less food wheat in 2012-13

By Risa Maeda April 15, 2012

Reuters / Japan, the world’s fifth-biggest wheat importer, plans to buy 6.5 per cent less foreign food wheat in the year to March 2013 in anticipation of higher local production, helped by government initiatives to lift food self-sufficiency. A panel of experts approved a plan March 28 by the Ministry of Agriculture to buy 4.78 million

Cereals, Crops, News, Oilseeds

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

News

Agency says female farmers key to boosting global food supply

By Michelle Martin April 15, 2012

Reuters / Empowering female farmers in developing countries is crucial to solving the world’s food problems, according to the chair of a panel which advises governments and donors on agricultural development in sub-Saharan Africa. “If we’re going to feed the world and in particular if Africa is going to be fed, we need every tool

Daily Network News

Southern California honeybees show resistance to varroa mites

Pulse Weekly: SaskPulse optimistic despite input, crop price concerns

Canadian aquaculture should be classed as agriculture, industry groups say

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Sector’s profitable streak helpful for flood recovery

Letters, April 12, 2012

Short-sighted solution to the wrong problem

World grain prices to stay strong

U.S. organic growers appeal court ruling

There’s talk but frost threat keeping seeding rigs in the shed

North Dakota wheat and durum acreage to rise

Japan to import less food wheat in 2012-13

Latest seeding estimates add another 600,000 acres for canola

Agency says female farmers key to boosting global food supply

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