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Aeration Key To Storing 16 To 20 Per Cent Moisture Corn

By NDSU Release October 28, 2010

Corn harvested at moisture contents up to 20 per cent can be stored safely during the winter with aeration, North Dakota State University’s grain-drying expert says. Corn at 20 per cent moisture has an allowable storage time of about 25 days at 15.5 C, 50 days at 10 C, 90 days at 4.4 C and

Cereals, Crops, Opinion

Letters – for Sep. 30, 2010

September 30, 2010

Open letter to Premier Greg Selinger As a cattle producer of this province, I would commend your government’s announcement for changes to the Animal Welfare Act. Like all cattle producers, we take pride in our animals and will do anything for their wellbeing while in our care and do not support any form of failure

Cereals, Crops, Oilseeds, Opinion

A Cost That Can Hit Like A Freight Train – for Sep. 16, 2010

By Les Mcewan September 16, 2010

Ask any farmer what fertilizer cost them last year and chances are you will get a very quick and accurate response. Likewise for herbicides, fuel, rent or any number of crop input costs, but what about freight? We’re not talking about trucking costs. I want to know exactly what it cost you to have grain

Cereals, Crops, Oilseeds

U. S. Grain Elevators Brace For Huge Harvest – for Sep. 16, 2010

By Christine Stebbins September 16, 2010

U. S. grain handlers, already burdened with big wheat inventories, are bracing for a mammoth corn and soybean harvest across America’s heartland. Merchants will have to find room for 17 billion bushels of corn and soybeans – the largest U. S. harvest in history. A recent spike in U. S. exports after drought-stricken Russia announced

Cereals, Crops, News, Oilseeds

Farm-Gate Corn Price Seen As Record – for Sep. 16, 2010

By Charles Abbott September 16, 2010

Voracious demand and a smaller-than-expected crop will bring the tightest U. S. corn supply in 15 years, the government said Sept. 10, but its forecast for the drought-stressed world wheat supply was not as low as expected. The Agriculture Department said the U. S. corn stockpile would shrink to 1.116 billion bushels by the end

Cereals, Opinion

Letters – for Sep. 9, 2010

September 9, 2010

It is the time for Premier Greg Selinger to show his leadership concerning the ever-expanding flood waters of the Shoal Lakes and Vestfold Ducks Unlimited Project. As of September 1 there are over 90,000 acres of farmland under the lake. Large sections of Provincial Roads 415 and 518 are under water resulting in them being

Cereals, Grain Markets

U. S. Farmers Can’t Meet Booming Corn Demands

By Charles Abbott July 15, 2010

Exporters, livestock feeders and ethanol makers are going through the U. S. corn stockpile faster than farmers can grow the crops, the government said July 9. Despite record crops in two of the past three years and another record within reach this year, the USDA estimated the corn carry-over will shrink to the lowest level

News

In Brief… – for Jun. 17, 2010

June 17, 2010

Correction: Several errors regarding the Cover Crop Protection Program (CCPP) appeared in a story about excess rain in the June 3 edition of the Manitoba Co-operator. The CCPP was introduced for 2005 and 2006 to assist farmers with flooded cropland, not 2004 and 2005 as reported. It paid farmers $15 an acre, not $30. And

Cereals, News, Oilseeds

U. S. Corn Stocks To Swell, Yield Near Record

May 20, 2010

U. S. corn stocks will swell to their highest in five years after a racing start to planting boosted chances for a record 2010-11 crop, while soybean ending inventories will nearly double, the U. S. government forecast May 11. Chicago corn prices rose after the U. S. Department of Agriculture’s first projections for this year’s

Livestock

Drying Corn Can Lock Away Its Feed Energy

By Jim Romahn April 15, 2010

One of the risks involved with using Ontario’s 2009 corn crop for poultry is the amount of drying required. It might have destroyed enzymes, and some protein and energy might be bonded to each other and not available to poultry. That’s according to Dr. Mike Leslie, poultry nutritionist for Masterfeeds, at a producer update meeting

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Chicago cattle futures mixed ahead of Thanksgiving holiday

Pulse Weekly: Looking for trade deal to benefit Canadian growers

U.S. grains: CBOT soybeans firm as traders hope for more Chinese buying

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