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In Brief… – for Sep. 29, 2011

September 29, 2011

Cargill expands West Fargo plant:Cargill will spend an estimated $50 million rebuilding and expanding its oilseed-processing plant in West Fargo, the company has announced. The existing facility has served us well since we built it 30 years ago, and we are now looking at rebuilding it to meet the needs of our customers for the

Crops

Corn Fungus Adds To Hard Year For U.S. Farmers

By Carey Gillam September 29, 2011

Corn farmers in some parts of the U.S. Plains are finding their newly harvested crop has to be heavily discounted or cannot be sold at all due to the presence of a vicious fungus that makes the corn dangerous to eat. The culprit is aflatoxin toxins produced by a fungus that can harm and possibly

Cereals, Opinion

Market Power: 50 Years Forward, 50 Years Back

By Beverly Stow September 29, 2011

As a farmer, I m alarmed at an elected government denying farmers a say in arguably the most important question in the history of Prairie farming. Without the marketing and representative power of the Canadian Wheat Board, grain farmers would be a scattered bunch of thousands peddling their wares to a handful of powerful grain

Beef cattle, Dairy cattle, Livestock

The Beef Industry Is On The Horns Of A Dilemma

By Kris Ringwall September 29, 2011

The beef world is changing, but one should avoid the word chaotic because the beef world has a lot of structure and is far from disorganized. However, the incoming forces that we do not control, such as Mother Nature, are slamming us. Although the response is quite organized, those forces certainly increase our sense of

Cereals, Opinion

Letters – for Sep. 29, 2011

September 29, 2011

Farmers deserve freedom of choice It is correct that 62 per cent of eligible farmers, deemed by the CWB, voted in favour of protecting the monopoly of the CWB, a foregone conclusion. When the math is done right, confirmed by Sidney Green, it is in fact only 34 per cent of all farmers. However, whatever

Livestock

Poland To Campaign For GMO-Free European Union

By Gabriela Baczynska September 29, 2011

Poland will propose to the European Union that it introduces a complete ban on cultivating, feeding or trading any genetically modified agricultural products, Farm Minister Marek Sawicki said Sept. 23. The biggest ex-communist EU member does not have a proper overall GMO legal regulatory framework after attempts failed to reach a political agreement in the

News, Oilseeds

Patent Infringement Trial Reduces Farmers’ Penalties

By Allan Dawson September 29, 2011

Farmers who breach patent law should expect to pay a price, but an Ontario lawyer says the price some farmers have been paying goes beyond what the law stipulates. I would say the public and farmers out there are being somewhat deliberately misinformed about what is a fair settlement, said Kurtis Andrews, a lawyer with

Livestock

Researchers Test Bee Virus Treatments

By Shannon VanRaes September 29, 2011

Testing of possible treatments for a virus associated with the varroa mite is continuing to move ahead at the University of Manitoba. We ve got it to a point where we can show it does kill the virus, said Rob Currie of the university s entomology department, referring to the use of double-strand RNA in

News

Monsanto’s “Unauthorized Growers List”

By Allan Dawson September 29, 2011

Farmers convicted of, or who admit to stealing Monsanto s technology aren t the only ones being banned from purchasing Roundup Ready crops. If somebody is completely uncooperative and not abiding by the terms of conditions, we ll put them on the unauthorized grower list, said Monsanto spokeswoman Trish Jordan. Under Monsanto s Technical Stewardship

Country Crossroads

Front Yard Farmers Sow Seeds Of Sustainability

By Shannon VanRaes September 29, 2011

Get a good job, start a family, move to a nice neighbourhood and rip up the front lawn it s not the traditional to-do list. But for front yard farmers such as Rhena and Doug Harold, who traded sod for veggies in front of their tidy bungalow last spring, growing food at home is a

Daily Network News

New strategies needed for Canadian agriculture to stand out in global trade

Feed Grains Weekly: Cash prices for wheat, barley largely flat

The Canadian GMO mustard wars: Dijon vs canola

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