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UN Expert Urges Huge Investment In Small Farmers

By David Brough July 14, 2011

Asenior United Nations food expert appealed June 20 for a massive investment in smallholder farming to end poverty and hunger. In an interview before the G20 meeting of farm ministers, Josef Schmidhuber, deputy director of the statistics division of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), said local poverty was the root cause of hunger, not

News, Oilseeds

Herbicides Can Set Back Stressed Crops

By Allan Dawson July 14, 2011

Herbicides are designed to help crops but they can also hurt them when they’re under stress as many are this year. Herbicide-tolerant groups are no exception, Anastasia Kubinec, Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives’ (MAFRI) oilseeds specialist told the 16th annual Crop Diagnostic School organized by MAFRI and University of Manitoba July 5. “If your

Cereals, Oilseeds, Opinion

Shhh… Don’t Tell The Canola Council

By Laura Rance-Unger July 14, 2011

We want to believe those promises of good things to come Western Canada’s way once the Canadian Wheat Board is outa’ the way. We really do. According to Minister of Agriculture Gerry Ritz, the CWB monopoly is weakening our clout in world wheat and barley trade. “What was once Canada’s signature crop has fallen behind,”

News

Think-Tank Creates Food Price-Volatility Detector

July 14, 2011

Anew statistical tool will help world leaders identify when food prices become dangerously volatile and help hunger fighters decide when to release food reserves to feed the poor, said a think-tank July 7. The tool developed by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) could answer two goals of agriculture ministers from the Group of

Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets, Oilseeds

Industry Skeptical On Canadian Barley Stocks Outlook

By Phil Franz-Warkentin July 14, 2011

Canola futures on the ICE Futures Canada trading platform managed to claw back some advances during the week ended July 8. Talk of some fresh export demand coming forward for Canadian canola helped to see values rebound up. Some concern about hot weather outlooks for the Prairies also encouraged some of the upward price momentum.

Beef cattle, Forages, Livestock

Grass-Fed Beef Gaining A Foothold In Cattle Sector

By Ron Friesen July 14, 2011

If you suggest to Jim Lintott that grass-fed beef is tough, he’ll tell you in an second it simply isn’t true. Lintott says tests conducted over two years at the University of Manitoba gave a high tenderness rating to the beef produced by Manitoba Grass-Fed Beef Association members. But you don’t need research to convince

Cereals, Livestock

Ethanol Producer Adding Cheap Wheat To Corn

By Carey Gillam July 14, 2011

The Andersons Inc., a major U.S. ethanol producer, has started mixing wheat into its corn-based biofuel in a move to lower costs and diversify its sourcing amid increasingly tight corn supplies. Andersons, which operates three U.S. ethanol plants with total capacity of 300 million gallons, has started using soft red winter wheat along with corn.

News

Flooded Farmers To Receive Government Aid

By Ron Friesen July 7, 2011

Manitoba’s waterlogged farmers are being promised $194 million in government aid to help pay for crop losses and flood-related damage this year. MAFRI Minister Stan Struthers last week announced a recovery program aimed at topping up crop insurance, growing greenfeed for livestock and rehabilitating flood-damaged land. The AgriRecovery package still requires federal participation. Programs under

Beef cattle, Cereals, News, Oilseeds

In Brief… – for Jul. 7, 2011

By Reuters July 7, 2011

EU drought eases:Rain in past weeks has saved European Union wheat from the worst impact of drought this spring but the 2011 crop will still fall on the year, analysts and traders said June 28. Much of west Europe has had regular rain in the past three weeks, relieving parched crops after the spring drought.

Crops, Opinion

Simple Solutions To The Food Challenge

By John Morriss July 7, 2011

Last month a milestone was marked in the history of world agriculture when the bovine disease rinderpest was officially declared eradicated. Though unknown in North America, rinderpest or “cattle plague” has been a devastating killer of cattle and wildlife for millennia in Europe, Africa and Asia. After smallpox, it’s only the second disease in history

Daily Network News

Corteva taps Luke Kissam to lead crop protection unit after spinoff

Klassen: Stronger fed market pulls feeder cattle complex upward

Federal gas, diesel taxes to be suspended, Carney says

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