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Bunge Eyes Canada After Wheat Monopoly

July 28, 2011

U.S. grain-trading giant Bunge Ltd. plans to expand its presence in Western Canada once the Canadian Wheat Board’s marketing monopoly is ended. “The most efficient system is a free market, a complete free market,” Bunge chief executive Alberto Weisser told theGlobe and Mail newspaper. The Conservative government says it will pass legislation this autumn to

Country Crossroads

Tall Perennial Ground Covers

By Albert Parsons July 28, 2011

Most gardeners are familiar with ground covers that are the “creepy, crawly” type, – those that hug the ground and form a thick mat on the soil surface. There is another category of ground covers, however, that is just as useful in the landscape and the good thing about this group of plants is that

Crops, Oilseeds

Perils Of Broadcast Seeding Outlined At Crop Tour

By Laura Rance-Unger July 28, 2011

A Carman-area canola field offers dramatic proof that agronomists weren’t kidding last spring when they advised farmers not to broadcast seed canola unless they could follow up with harrows. Provincial weed specialist Nasir Shaikh said the field was aerially seeded with a Clearfield herbicide-tolerant variety by air and the producer was able to cover part

Cereals, Crops

First Organically Bred Wheat And Oat Lines Enter Co-Op Trials

By Lorraine Stevenson July 28, 2011

Oat and wheat varieties bred specifically to perform well in the low-input conditions of an organic production system are one step closer to becoming a commercial reality. Two lines of wheat and two lines of oats developed by the Organic Wheat Breeding Program, based at Carman are now entering first-year co-op testing trials towards evaluation

Cereals, Crops

Black Soil Field’s Yield Returns To Average After Drought

By Melissa Akin July 28, 2011

After enduring a season as hard as any in living memory, the farmers who cultivate these Black Soils wheat fields say their yields should recover to normal after massive drought losses last year. The winter wheat, to be harvested in July, was planted in nearly dry soil but the rains came just in time, said

Cereals, Crops, Forages, Oilseeds

Crop Report – for Jul. 28, 2011

By Manitoba Agriculture July 28, 2011

SOUTHWEST REGION Rainfall over the past week varied from 10 to 50 mm. Good growing conditions helped crops advance and several crops have improved over the past week. Cereal crops in the Southwest Region are in the heading stage and late-seeded crops have tillered and are going into the flag-leaf stage. Late-seeded greenfeed is in

Crops

Bioeconomy Gives Agriculture New Lease On Life

By Rob Swystun July 28, 2011

The emerging bioeconomy is rewriting agriculture’s contract with society, a senior official with Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives told bioengineers meeting in Winnipeg recently. Daryl Domitruk, director of the Agri-Food Innovation and Adaptation Knowledge Centre for Manitoba Agriculture and Rural Initiatives, said agriculture is often portrayed as “the bad guy” when it comes to

Cereals, Crops, News, Oilseeds

Ugly Perennials Getting Admiring Looks

By Laura Rance-Unger July 28, 2011

In a back corner of the Ian N. Morrison Research Farm is a nursery of what most farmers would consider butt-ugly plants with spindly stems, tiny seeds, and weedy characteristics. But they might just be the salvation of grain farming if the impact of climate change falls hard on the Canadian Prairies. The plots contain

Opinion

Taking Climate Change Seriously

By John Morriss July 28, 2011

While there is no such thing as an “average” farmer, there seems to be a certain proportion of the species with a somewhat selective attitude toward science-based research. When it comes to crop chemicals or genetically modified organisms, they are quite prepared to accept the vast majority of scientific opinion that they are perfectly safe,

Opinion

Taking A Position On Agriculture And Climate Change

July 28, 2011

At its 66th annual international conference in July, the Soil and Water Conservation Society released this position statement on climate change and soil and water conservation. SWCS is a scientific organization with chapters throughout the U.S. and Canada, and which has over 5,000 members around the world. The Soil and Water Conservation Society finds that

Daily Network News

El Niño risk building, U.S. forecaster says; ENSO-neutral expected to continue to June

ICE weekly: War news driving canola markets

War is increasing food prices, insecurity say IMF, World Bank and UN food agency

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