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Add Stripe Rust To Your Disease Watch List

By Allan Dawson June 24, 2010

“With any rust the younger the crop is when infected the greater the potential for yield reduction. That’s why one of the main control methods is early planting.” – PAM DE ROCQUIGNY Farmers checking their wheat crops for leaf rust, tan spot and septoria can add stripe rust to the disease watch list. Jason Voogt,

Cereals, Crops, News, Oilseeds

Disease Threatens What’s Left

By Allan Dawson June 17, 2010

From 10,000 feet, the muddy Prairie fields below soaked with unprecedented rains this spring can be described in one word: dismal. The Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) predicts farmers will seed only 19.2 million acres of wheat and 6.6 million of barley – the smallest acreages since 1971 and 1965, respectively. It estimates 8.5 million to

Opinion, Poultry

“Chicken Feed” Sums Up U. S. Poultry Returns

By Alan Guebert June 10, 2010

In a morning session of the May 21 U. S. Department of Justice-Department of Agriculture workshop on ag and antitrust enforcement, Alabama poultry grower Garry Staples told officials he expected “retaliation” from the firm he grows chickens for because of his participation in that event’s discussion of poultry contracts. Not so, opined Assistant Attorney General

Crops, Oilseeds

New Soybean Could Cut Into High-Stability Canola Oil Markets

By Allan Dawson June 3, 2010

“The story of canola is it has always been able to keep one step ahead of soybeans.” – David Dzisiak High-oleic canola oil, most of it from Canada, has dominated the growing North American demand for healthier, non-trans fat, deep-frying oils, but American soybeans are fighting back. Last month the United States Department of Agriculture

Cereals, News

Wheat Likely Contaminated By GM

By Allan Dawson May 6, 2010

“Fifteen years ago people didn’t think Greenpeace was a significant player in policy development – they are, they clearly are.” – Randy Giroux Genetically modified (GM) wheat hasn’t been commercialized but wheat contaminated by other GM crops is out there if someone looks hard enough for it, says Ian White, president and CEO of the

Cereals, News, Oilseeds

Progress Being Made To Stop GM-Related Trade Disruptions

By Allan Dawson May 6, 2010

“I think there’s increased recognition within Europe that the pendulum swung too far… and I think there is a conscious effort to re-examine it.” – Dennis Stephens Trade disruptions caused by itinerant genetically modified (GM) crops can be fixed if countries end their zero-tolerance policy and set low but realistic thresholds, says Dennis Stephens, a

News

Tight Canadian Supplies Threaten U. S. Packer

By Rod Nickel April 1, 2010

Shrinking cattle supplies in Canada and the U. S. Northwest could leave the JBS-USA packing plant in Hyrum, Utah, vulnerable to closure, a Canadian meat market analyst said March 26. The plant is one of three in the U. S. Northwest that rely on cattle from Alberta and Saskatchewan to supplement U. S. suppl ies,

Crops

Argentine Strike Blocks Soy Exports

April 1, 2010

Port workers striking over wages at Argentina’s biggest grains export complex have widened protests and on Monday were blocking access to most shipping terminals in San Martin and Timbues ports, union and media sources said. Workers from the Port Workers Co-operative and the United Syndicate of Argentine Port Workers, or SUPA in Spanish, burned tires

News

Agrium, Rivals Seen Focusing On Smaller Deals

By Euan Rocha March 18, 2010

“Consolidation of the fertilizer industry worldwide is far from over.” – JOERGEN OLE HASLESTAD Aprotracted takeover battle in the global fertilizer industry ended this week with a victory for CF Industries Holdings Inc., but the losers are unlikely to wait long before climbing back into the fray. CF Industries’ agreement to acquire Terra Industries brought

Crops, Oilseeds

Tundra Truck Prize Bound For Manitoba

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff February 25, 2010

Jonathan Wollman of the Clearwater Colony at Balmoral is the winner of a 2010 Toyota Tundra pickup truck in a Cargill contest for hybrid canola growers. Wollman was announced Monday as the grand-prize winner in the company’s Victory Hybrid Canola “Big Profit Pickup” draw. The company also distributed five first prizes in each of the

Daily Network News

Feed Grains Weekly: Good export demand pushing up domestic prices

Beef DNA testing now available in Canada

Domestic abuse survivors may need extra support when livestock is involved, experts say

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