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U.S. farmers have an ethanol addiction

Ethanol growth has caused the U.S. corn crop to balloon, and now U.S. farmers are 
facing a bleak price future

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March did not go out like either a lion or a lamb. In fact, after the U.S. Department of Agriculture released its Prospective Plantings Report midday March 31, the month — as well as the 2016 corn market — highballed it into history faster than a runaway train. The coal under the boiler was USDA’s
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Comment, Crops

Crop prices and consumer food demand

Neither the production nor the consumption side of the total food supply equation responds quickly to price decreases

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Editor’s note: This is the third in a series of columns exploring how agriculture supply-and-demand fundamentals function differently than those of other businesses. In describing the model we use to analyze agricultural policies, the two previous columns examined the responsiveness of the production of grains, oilseeds, and fibres to changes in prices. We saw that
Opinion: Here we go again
Opinion

Opinion: Here we go again

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First, the bad news. Farmers around the world did a great job last year. The good news? Farmers around the world did a great job last year. Such is the unfortunate reality of the grain market. As speakers at last week’s Cereals North America conference in Winnipeg said, the world is “awash with grain,” which
Hao Hao eats bamboo at the Pairi Daiza wildlife park in Brugelette, Belgium.
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Scientists seek biofuel clues in panda poo

The scat could show how tough plants can be digested


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Belgian researchers are examining the excrement of giant pandas to try to understand how they can digest tough bamboo, hoping for clues on how to develop new generations of biofuel. The genetic makeup of endangered pandas is that of a carnivore but the animals have adapted to a diet consisting almost exclusively of bamboo. While
Approximately 31 per cent of food produced in the U.S., or 133 billion pounds of food worth $162 billion, was wasted in 2011, according to the USDA.
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The problem with ‘all-you-can(‘t)-eat’ dining

Study says unfinished meat wastes more resources than other foods

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In a new study, University of Missouri researchers say that while less meat is wasted on average compared to fruits and vegetables, it represents more total resource waste in inputs such as fuel and fertilizer. “While many of us are concerned about food waste, we also need to consider the resources that are wasted when
La Salle Redboine Conservation District manager Justin Reid spoke to municipal and conservation officials during the latest phase of the large-scale water-retention project south of Holland last week.
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Pelly’s Lake watershed management project complete

Officials visit site to see the gates opened on the now complete Pelly’s Lake Watershed Management Project

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Conservation and municipal officials opened the gates here June 16 to release water that had been held back through the spring as part of a water control project expected to bring multiple benefits to the area. The June opening of the gates on the Pelly’s Lake dam built last year is the latest phase of
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Crops, Opinion

Editorial: Black swan?

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Among the many topics in the science news releases last week was one from the University of East Anglia in the U.K. “A new study pinpoints five strains of yeast capable of turning agricultural byproducts, such as straw, sawdust and corncobs, into bioethanol — a well-known alcohol-based biofuel,” the release said. We’ve seen similar news
auger moving corn by auger
Crops, Opinion

Unintended consequences of U.S. biofuel policy

Corn and soy for ethanol were grown on marginal land which could have emitted 
as much carbon dioxide as 34 coal-fired power plants

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Clearing grasslands to make way for biofuels may seem counterproductive, but University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers show in a new study that crops, including the corn and soy commonly used for biofuels, expanded onto seven million acres of new land in the U.S. over a recent four-year period, replacing millions of acres of grasslands. The study

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