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Manitoba Forage Seed Grower Joins Anti-Monsanto Legal Action

In the age of patent protection, there’s lots of precedent for corporate giants suing farmers – but few farmers willing to take on the corporations. Well, meet Paul Gregory. He is among 60 farmers, producer groups and seed companies suing Monsanto Co. by challenging its patents on genetically modified seed. Gregory, who owns Interlake Forage
Crops, Oilseeds

New Insecticide For Soybeans

Bayer CropScience has received registration for Concept insecticide, making it available to soybean and horticulture growers across Canada for the 2011 growing season. “Concept is a revolutionary broad-spectrum foliar insecticide that delivers quick knockdown and residual protection against soybean aphid and Japanese beetle, and suppression of bean leaf beetle in soybean crops,” said Greg Good,
News, Oilseeds

Phytosanitary Grain Rules Need Work

The international grain trade needs better phytosanitary rules and tolerances for low-level presence of genetically modified (GM) crops, says Dennis Stephens, a consultant contracted to co-ordinate the Canada Grains Council. “Zero thresholds are no longer obtainable,” Stephens told the council’s 42nd annual meeting in Winnipeg earlier this month. “We’ve reached a stage where we have
Crops, Oilseeds

Bayer And DuPont Sign Cross-Licence Deal

Seed giant Pioneer Hi-Bred will begin using LibertyLink herbicide-tolerance traits in its canola hybrids, in a deal which will see Bayer CropScience try its hand at juncea oilseeds. Germany’s Bayer and DuPontowned, U.S.-based Pioneer have announced a global licensing agreement in which Bayer will license its LibertyLink technology to Pioneer, while Bayer will get access
Crops, Oilseeds

Canola Acres Could Decline In Manitoba

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Oilseed acres may be nearing their maximum in Manitoba and could decline over the next six years, according to projections from the provincial Agriculture Department. Total canola, flaxseed, sunflower and soybean acres will peak at 4.6 million acres in 2011 and fall slightly to 4.5 million acres by 2017, predicts Anastasia Kubinec, a Manitoba Agr
Cereals, News, Oilseeds

GM Wheat Is Coming –Eventually

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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, News, Oilseeds

Marketing Survey Not Supported

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The canola growers’ associations in Saskatchewan and Alberta are distancing themselves from efforts from a group of Manitoba growers who want to try marketing the crop through the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB). Last week the Manitoba Canola Growers Association (MCGA) ran a survey in the Manitoba Co-operatorand Western Producerasking how many tonnes of canola farmers
News, Oilseeds

ADM To Expand Canada Canola Plant

ADM Agri-Industries, a subsidiary of U.S. agrifood company Archer Daniels Midland, said March 21 it will double seed receiving and storage capacity at its canola-processing plant in Lloydminster, Alberta. The expansion is the most recent in a series of moves by crushers that reflects strong demand for the oilseed, which is Canada’s second-biggest crop after
Cereals, Crops, Oilseeds

Will Farmers Support Voluntary CWB Canola Marketing?

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Western farmers will soon be asked whether they’d like the option to voluntarily market canola through the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB). A survey will be distributed via farm newspapers and the Internet this month or early next month, Manitoba Canola Growers Association (MCGA) director Butch Harder told about 70 farmers here March 15 at the

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