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Canada Farm Terminals See Unsure Fate After Wheat Board

By Rod Nickel November 10, 2011

With only old, wooden elevators to buy crops around Unity, Saskatchewan, farmers like Mervin Slater banded together in 1993 to sell shares and build a modern grain terminal. The towering concrete and steel facility is one of nearly a dozen farmer-run grain terminals to spring up on the Canadian Prairies since the 1990s, offering farmers

Crops

U.S. Senate Votes End Farm Subsidies To People Earning $1 Million

November 10, 2011

WAS HINGTON / REUTERS / The U.S. Senate has passed a bill to bar farm subsidies to wealthy Americans. The provision in a funding bill would halt subsidies to people with more than $1 million a year in adjusted gross income. It must be reconciled with House legislation, which has no limit, before becoming law.

News

Fertilizer Prices Higher, But Relief May Come

By Adam Johnston November 10, 2011

Fertilizer prices across Western Canada are considerably higher than earlier this year. However, some price relief may be on the way. Fertilizer prices have really stayed high all through the season, said Doug Chorney, president of the Manitoba Keystone Agricultural Producers Association. Prices over the past 12 months in Manitoba have increased for some nitrogen

Crops

PotashCorp Profit Soars On Strong Demand

By Euan Rocha November 10, 2011

PotashCorp, the world s top fertilizer maker, said Oct. 27 its quarterly profit more than doubled, as strong grain prices boosted demand for its crop nutrient products. Despite wides pread economic concerns during the quarter, the push to capitalize on strong crop prices continued to support demand for fertilizer around the globe, the company said.

Cereals, Crops

Black Sea Wheat Displacing European And U.S. Sales Competition

By Aleksandras Budrys November 10, 2011

Top Black Sea wheat producers will flood markets for the entire 2011-12 crop year, giving rivals little respite from high volumes of cheap grain, with Russia dominating in the first half of the season and Ukraine and Kazakhstan in the second. Massive Black Sea exports were pressur ing European wheat shipments their main competitor but

Beef cattle, Livestock

Expert Panel Points To Major Problems

By Daniel Winters November 10, 2011

Major hurdles need to be overcome before a national beef traceability system can be introduced, members of an expert panel told beef producers meeting here Nov. 4. We have a bookend system, said Darcy Eddleston, chair of the Canadian Cattle Identification Agency s board of directors, at the Manitoba Beef Producers annual general meeting. We

Cereals, News

Ritz Thirsty For Barley Freedom Beer

By Allan Dawson November 10, 2011

When legislation Bill C-18 passes to kill the wheat board s monopoly, Gerry Ritz says he ll celebrate with a glass of barley freedom beer. It might even be made with malt from Rahr Malting in Alix, Alta., where the minister of agriculture visited Nov. 1 to celebrate the company s announcement to spend $6

Dairy cattle, Livestock

New Award For Dairy Farmers

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff November 10, 2011

Dairy Farmers of Canada (DFC) has opened nominations for its new Dairy Farm Sustainability Award. This new award aims to recognize actions taken by dairy farmers across Canada who produce milk in a sustainable way. The award for Canadian Dairy Farm Sustainability will recognize Canadian dairy farmers who have adopted practices that are environmentally sustainable,

Livestock, News

Winter Fertilizing Ban Starts Nov. 10, Ends April 10

By Allan Dawson November 3, 2011

Farmers still planning to apply fertilizer this fall have until midnight Nov. 9 to get the job done. Otherwise, they must wait until next April 10 under new regulations that came into effect last spring. Although the changes were announced several years ago, many farmers are oblivious, said Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP) president Doug Chorney

Cereals, Oilseeds, Opinion

Apples And Oranges Add Up To Bananas

By Laura Rance-Unger November 3, 2011

We ve observed over time that it s become increasingly difficult for civil servants to maintain that blurry distinction between policy and politics. But there can be no question that Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada has crossed the line with its marketing freedom website. It was undoubtedly pushed, but the result is the same. There can

Daily Network News

B.C. ostriches culled, CFIA confirms

U.S. livestock: Cattle, hogs end week on high note

U.S. grains: Soybeans bounce as Chinese demand assessed, wheat drops

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