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Australia To Further Deregulate Wheat Exports

CANBERRA/REUTERS Australia will abolish its wheat export regulator and a levy on all wheat exports from Sept. 30, 2012, Agriculture Minister Joe Ludwig said Sept. 23, as the country moves to further deregulate its wheat exports market. However, the changes will be 12 months later than recommended by a major report into wheat exports, which
Opinion

It’s The Economy, Stupid

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Canada’s ruling prime minister, Stephen Harper, seems to have persuaded voters that, as an “economist,” he is fit to rule the country, since there is nothing more important than “the economy.” But just what is it that he is talking about? An economy is how we organize our material affairs, from the household to the
Opinion

The Climate Change Conundrum

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ith the June 20 crop insurance past, farmers and their crop insurance agents are pulling on their galoshes to assess the W damages from yet another spring with too much water. Cattle producers are worrying about winter feed supplies as they watch flood waters inundate their hayfields. We are told this year is one for
Crops

Companies Chip In For CFGB Growing Projects

To be successful, Canadian Foodgrains Bank (CFGB) growing projects require land, people, time and energy. The fundraising efforts also need inputs like seed, fertilizer and other chemicals – products generously provided by some of Canada’s leading agro-sciences corporations. This year over $220,000 of inputs have been donated through CFGB to growing projects across Canada by
Cereals, Crops, Oilseeds

CWB Single Desk To End, But When?

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It’s not a question of if, but when Stephen Harper’s majority Conservative government will kill the Canadian Wheat Board’s monopoly over western Canadian wheat and barley. The Tories have promised since 2006 to abolish the CWB’s statutory single desk, but were stymied until winning 167 seats in the May 2 election, giving them a solid
Crops

Slow-Release Fertilizer Works Best In A Blend

If you want to grow a potato crop with decent yield and quality, adding nitrogen mid-season is a given. Putting it all down early in the season can promote top growth and slow tuber set, lowering yield. Or you can lose it to leaching from heavy rainfall or gassing off. As a result, many growers
Crops

What’s ESN?

It’s the trade name for an Agrium product that’s being touted as the next-generation of polymer-coated urea. The coating encases the urea granule, preventing it from converting to plant-available nitrate, which is also a very volatile form of nitrogen that can escape from your fields. Agrium says – and research confirms – that the product
Cereals, News, Oilseeds

In Brief… – for Oct. 7, 2010

Deer ticks now across province:The deer ticks known to harbour the bacteria that cause Lyme disease can now be found throughout Manitoba, including their “well-established” population in the southeast, according to U of M entomologist Terry Galloway. Until this season’s fieldwork is done, it’s not known if deer tick populations have also “established” themselves in
Cereals, Crops

Viterra To Take Over AWB Grain Business?

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Agrium Inc. is considering whether to keep or sell the grain-handling and marketing unit of takeover target AWB Ltd., a top Agrium official said Sept. 15. Agrium, North America’s leading retailer of fertilizer and chemicals and other farm products, is in the process of buying AWB for A$1.2 billion (C$1.15 billion). AWB, formerly the Australian

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