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Brazil Turns And Backs French Commodity Proposal

By Peter Murphy April 14, 2011

Brazil has come around to back France’s proposal for increased regulation of commodity markets which have bumped food prices to record highs this year, the agricultural giant’s farm minister said April 7. France is seeking the support of the G20 group of wealthy and developing economies for a series of reforms intended to help stabilize

Cereals, News, Oilseeds

GM Wheat Is Coming –Eventually

By Allan Dawson April 14, 2011

The need to make more money growing wheat will see genetically modified varieties commercialized in seven to 10 years, according to a leading American wheat organization. “I think this is a matter of when we have GM wheat products in the market, and not so much an if at this point,” Vince Peterson, U.S. Wheat

Cereals, Crops

Feed Wheat Helps To Fill Corn Void

April 14, 2011

Arecord five billion bushels of corn will be used to make fuel ethanol, a potential strain on the tightest U.S. corn supply in 15 years, but it will be offset by more use of wheat as a substitute for corn in hog and poultry rations, said the government on April 8. USDA pegged the carryover

Beef cattle, Forages, Livestock, News

Cold Weather Makes Cattle “Greener”

By Daniel Winters April 14, 2011

Cattle emit less methane in the winter than in summer, a recent study has discovered. And now that the results have been sent to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, scientists will use it to develop a more accurate picture of the true contribution of ruminants to global warming. Previously, the IPCC had not taken

Crops

Brazil Farmers Mass In Protest Of Forest Regulations

By Peter Murphy April 14, 2011

Thousands of Brazilian farmers demonstrated in the country’s capital demanding an end to decades of legal uncertainty over the amount of forest they must conserve. Under a 1965 forestry code, ranchers and farmers must maintain 35 per cent forest coverage in the cerrado, or savanna; 80 per cent in the Amazon; and 20 per cent

Cereals, News, Oilseeds

In Brief… – for Apr. 14, 2011

By Reuters April 14, 2011

Frozen culverts:Floods from melting snow could damage highways and bridges in Saskatchewan, the provincial government said April 7. The Saskatchewan Highways Department said it has brought in steaming equipment as well as pumps and water tanks to thaw out frozen culverts to help drainage. Last year, big sections of Saskatchewan’s highway network were flooded, including

News

USDA Changes Corn Wording After Ethanol Makers Complain

April 14, 2011

The U.S. government introduced new wording on corn use on April 8 following complaints from ethanol makers that they were not getting credit for the corn byproducts that are fed to livestock. Instead of saying “corn for ethanol” in its monthly report, the U.S. Agriculture Department now spells out the corn is going to produce

Cereals, Crops, Opinion

A Boost For Wheat Research

By Laura Rance-Unger April 14, 2011

It’s nice to see headlines about the need for more investment into wheat research these days, even if some of the stories swirling around that topic are a mite confused. Last week started with news reports in mainstream dailies across Canada citing a leaked memo from the National Research Council and reporting that genetically modified

News

Canadians Join Patent Lawsuit

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff April 14, 2011

Aclutch of Canadian organic producers has signed on with a long list of mostly U.S. farm plaintiffs to “pre-emptively” sue Monsanto against any chance that the company could sue them over patent infringement. Ottawa-based Canadian Organic Growers (COG), along with 20 other farm groups, 12 seed businesses, including Interlake Forage Seeds of Manitoba, and 26

Opinion

Let’s Keep Risks In Perspective

By Kevin Hursh April 14, 2011

The nuclear crisis in Japan is likely to have a big impact on the future development of the nuclear industry around the world. In a less direct way, it could also lead to more starving people. The link between the two issues is trust. Nuclear power generation is safe, we’ve been told. Unfortunately, no one

Daily Network News

Iran says Strait of Hormuz open as Trump sees deal ‘soon’ to end war

Agriculture groups welcome seed, fertilizer approval bill

AAFC projects tighter canola stocks for 2026-27

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