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Heat-damaged canola crop creates supply shortages

By Rod Nickel November 9, 2012

Reuters / Supply worries about Canada’s disappointingly small canola harvest this year are compounded by the oilseed’s reduced oil content, crimping profits for crushers and leaving food companies to scramble for other vegetable oils. Expectations were high early in the crop year that a record-large canola crop in Canada would compensate for some of the

Cereals, Crops, News

EU may extend zero import duties

November 9, 2012

Reuters / The European Union’s cereals management committee will vote Nov. 8 on whether to extend the suspension of the bloc’s import duties on feed wheat and barley until the end of June 2013, a draft regulation showed. In June, the European Union suspended its import duties of 12 euros per tonne for low- and

Crops, News

Novozymes and Syngenta team up on product registration

November 9, 2012

Biological manufacturer Novozymes and chemical/seed giant Syngenta, have announced a global marketing and distribution agreement for Novozymes’s microbial-based biofungicide Taegro, a microbial-based fungicide based on the naturally occurring Bacillus subtilis bacterium. Novozymes says Taegro targets fungal diseases such as rhizoctonia and fusarium on fruit and vegetables, and its application is expected to be expanded to

Cereals, Crops, News

EU decries Ukraine’s decision to halt wheat exports

November 9, 2012

Reuters / The European Union’s top farm official says Ukraine’s decision to ban wheat exports from Nov. 15 risked increasing world grain prices and disturbing international trade flows. “I am deeply disappointed to see this announcement. It will add unnecessary tension to international agricultural markets, and those that will suffer most will be the world’s

Cereals, Crops, News

British wheat imports to soar as crop quality fails

By Nigel Hunt November 9, 2012

Britain is on the hunt for high-quality bread wheat after  domestic production and quality come up short

Reuters / Britain will be a net importer of wheat for the first time in a decade this year, turning customer to its traditional export rivals after a disease-ravaged harvest, much of which fails to meet the quality required for bread. Traders and analysts said diseases fuelled by the wettest June since records began more

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More trade could end African food shortages

By Lesley Wroughton November 9, 2012

Reuters / Africa could avoid food shortages if it reduces the tangled web of rules, fees and high costs strangling regional food trade and by putting large swathes of uncultivated land to productive use, according to a World Bank report. Just five per cent of Africa’s cereal imports are now provided by African farmers, according

Cereals, News

New study says productivity gains reshaping agriculture

By Alex Binkley November 9, 2012

Canadian farmers have become a lot more productive in the past 15 years, according to a new study by BMO Bank of Montreal. “With the quantity of land devoted to farming relatively stable and reliance on government support generally in decline, the industry is truly doing more with less,” said David Rinneard, the bank’s national

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Analysis: European biofuel push proving hard to reverse

By Gerard Wynn November 9, 2012

European policy-makers are discovering the difficulty of curbing a biofuel industry they weaned five years ago as a low-carbon alternative to crude oil, but which is increasingly at odds with the environment and food production. To halt or reverse a $22-billion European biofuel industry requires a sound justification. The problem with biofuels is that calculation

Crops, News

USDA hears earful about corn estimates at annual meeting

By Tom Polansek October 26, 2012

Reuters / Top U.S. agriculture officials Monday were to face questions about quarterly estimates for corn inventories that have frustrated traders and roiled markets for the past two years. Traders said they would raise their concerns about supply estimates at the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s annual meeting in Chicago for users of agricultural data. The

Crops, News

Corn seed might be tight next spring

By Daniel Winters October 17, 2012

Rising corn acres and severe drought in the Midwestern United States may crimp supplies of popular corn seed varieties for the coming year. “It’s really short,” said Ron Rabe, a Dekalb agronomist, who gave a brief talk on corn production in Manitoba at a recent WADO field tour. Derek Erb, who farms near Oak Bluff

Daily Network News

U.S. grains: Soybeans continue gains on Trump’s China comments

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures end week higher on tight supply

Pea, lentil outlooks have some positive signals – Penner

Tag Archives Biofuels

Heat-damaged canola crop creates supply shortages

EU may extend zero import duties

Novozymes and Syngenta team up on product registration

EU decries Ukraine’s decision to halt wheat exports

British wheat imports to soar as crop quality fails

More trade could end African food shortages

New study says productivity gains reshaping agriculture

Analysis: European biofuel push proving hard to reverse

USDA hears earful about corn estimates at annual meeting

Corn seed might be tight next spring

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