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Agrium Wants To Buy Former Australian Wheat Board – for Aug. 19, 2010

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff August 19, 2010

Canadian fertilizer giant Agrium Ltd. has started a bidding war for AWB Ltd., formerly the Australian Wheat Board. The company was put into play July 30 when AWB directors recommended to shareholders that they agree to an offer by larger Australian rival GrainCorp. Based on last year’s handlings, the new company would handle 14.6 million

Beef cattle, Hogs, Livestock, Opinion

New Game, New Rules

By Alan Guebert July 22, 2010

Watching Big Pork and Big Beef respond to proposed USDA rules to “clarify conduct that violates the P&S (Packers and Stockyards) Act” is like watching Wall Street bankers: they find it impossible to pull their hands out of your pockets long enough to pull themselves out of the mess they’ve made. That’s a good explanation

Cereals, Crops

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, 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

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

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

Daily Network News

Wheat breeding system no longer works, Canadian Wheat Research Coalition report says

Feed grain weekly: Barley steady in late February

Reduced Argentine soybean harvest, bigger crush says USDA attaché

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