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Bumper U. S. Harvest Won’t Help Livestock

September 24, 2009

U. S. farmers are gearing up to harvest huge corn and soybean crops in the Midwest grain belt, but the bumper crops will not bring down the costs of food items made from them. Traditionally, livestock and dairy producers increase production when feed costs decrease. But banks may be reluctant to fund expansion efforts for

Crops

Bacteria Could Transform Ethanol Sector

By Nigel Hunt September 24, 2009

A compost bacteria bred by a British company could be set to transform both the profitability and environmental credentials of the U. S. ethanol industry. “The application of our technology results in the greening of corn ethanol,” Hamish Curran, chief executive officer of TMO Renewables Ltd. said in an interview Sept. 15. The company provides

News

Province Mandates Biofuels In Diesel

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff September 17, 2009

Manitoba will make an average two per cent biodiesel content mandatory for all diesel fuel sold in the province, starting Nov. 1. “Biodiesel will benefit Manitoba’s agricultural communities while reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 56,000 tonnes, the equivalent of taking 11,000 cars off the road annually,” provincial Energy Minister Jim Rondeau said in a release

Cereals, Opinion

Don’t Blame Ethanol For Hog Industry Woes

By Les Mcewan September 10, 2009

Feed grain prices in Western Canada are not wholly dependent on the supply and demand in Western Canada. The dog days of summer are upon us, and with the last remnants of the small-town fairs still in the air, we’re left with fond memories of the circus clowns and second-rate magicians. Disappearing people, never-ending hankies,

News, Oilseeds

Renewed Food Inflation Risk As Funds Eye Edible Oils

By Catherine Horn September 10, 2009

Less than two years after a surge in global food prices caused panic and riots around the world, investors are starting to return to vegetable oil markets and raising the spectre of renewed food price inflation. Billions of dollars change hands annually in the markets for palm, soybean and other vegetable oils, which are used

News, Oilseeds

In Brief… – for Sep. 3, 2009

September 3, 2009

White mould spotted in soybeans: White mould (sclerotinia) is showing up in some Manitoba soybean fields. There are no registered fungicides for control. The disease doesn’t usually reduce soybean yields by that much, according to John McGregor, a farm production adviser with Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives. However, he adds, fields with a severe

Opinion

How Soon Will Cellulosic Ethanol Arrive?

By Cole Gustafson August 27, 2009

The arrival of ethanol produced from cellulosic feedstock sources has almost been a standing joke within the ethanol industry. Each year it has always been “four to five years down the road” before commercial production would become viable. That’s changed: the “four to five years” is now. At a recent ethanol workshop, several companies, including

Crops

Ethanol Consumes Extra Production

By Muchena Zigomo August 20, 2009

World agricultural commodity stocks have fallen sharply in the past decade and may continue to be hit by growing biofuels production and rising demand, a CME Group economist said Aug. 17. John Hill, an economist for CME – the world’s largest derivatives exchange – said the rise in biofuels output posed a threat to agricultural

Cereals, Crops, Oilseeds

Big U. S. Soy, Corn Crops May Deflate Price Boom

By Charles Abbott August 20, 2009

U. S. farmers this year will reap their largest soybean crop ever and their second-largest corn crop, mammoth harvests that will deflate an ethanol-fuelled price boom, the government said Aug. 12. In its first estimate of the fall harvest, the Agriculture Department estimated the soybean crop would be a record 3.199 billion bushels, up eight

Opinion

Policy Shifts Can Be Penny-Wise But Dollar Foolish

By Daryll E. Ray August 6, 2009

The 1996 Farm Bill’s elimination of the grain storage program, coupled with the elimination of an acreage management program, increased the cost to taxpayers for farm programs by an average of $5.7 billion a year. During the debate over the 1996 Farm Bill, the proponents for eliminating a government stock program argued that the traditional

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