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New Insecticide For Soybeans

May 5, 2011

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

Cellulosic Ethanol Plant Coming?

By Allan Dawson April 21, 2011

The straw Red River Valley farmers burn in their fields could soon be burning in their half-ton engines instead. An official with Shell Canada confirmed the fossil fuel oil company is looking across Western Canada, including Manitoba, for a site to build a cellulosic ethanol plant with its partner Iogen Corporation. “Shell has committed to

Crops, Pulses

Rumoured Monsanto Sale Denied

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff April 21, 2011

Germany’s BASF has no plans to buy global biotech seed company Monsanto Co., sources with knowledge of the situation said April 12. Rumours that a buyout was imminent sent Monsanto’s shares up as much as four per cent while shares of BASF, the world’s largest chemical maker, fell 2.8 per cent. The two companies are

Crops, Oilseeds

Cancer Cause Or Crop Aid? Glyphosate Faces Big Test

By Carey Gillam April 14, 2011

Critics say it’s a chemical that could cause infertility or cancer, while others see it speeding the growth of super weeds and causing worrying changes to plants and soil. Backers say it is safe and has made a big contribution to food production. It’s glyphosate, the key – but controversial – ingredient in Roundup herbicide

Cereals, Crops

Feed Wheat Helps To Fill Corn Void

April 14, 2011

Arecord five billion bushels of corn will be used to make fuel ethanol, a potential strain on the tightest U.S. corn supply in 15 years, but it will be offset by more use of wheat as a substitute for corn in hog and poultry rations, said the government on April 8. USDA pegged the carryover

News

USDA Changes Corn Wording After Ethanol Makers Complain

April 14, 2011

The U.S. government introduced new wording on corn use on April 8 following complaints from ethanol makers that they were not getting credit for the corn byproducts that are fed to livestock. Instead of saying “corn for ethanol” in its monthly report, the U.S. Agriculture Department now spells out the corn is going to produce

Opinion

Don’t Overlook Feed Value Of DDGs

By Gavin Maguire April 7, 2011

Ethanol producers often get much of the blame for driving the price of corn to its current multi-year high levels due to that industry’s strong usage of corn to make fuel. But critics overlook the growing production and distribution of Dried Distillers Grains (DDGs), a byproduct of ethanol output used in animal feeds as an

Crops

Canada Tightens Controls On Japanese Food, Animal Feed

April 7, 2011

Canada has tightened its controls on Japanese imports to include all food and animal feed products from areas affected by Japan’s ongoing nuclear crisis. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency said April 1 that it requires documentation proving the safety of food and feed products before it will allow them into Canada. The federal agency has

Crops, Oilseeds

Valtera Is A New Soybean Herbicide From Nufarm

By Allan Dawson April 7, 2011

Roundup Ready soybeans dominate the Mani toba market now, but Nufarm thinks there’s room for Valtera, a new pre-emergent soybean herbicide from U.S.-based Valent. Nufarm says it controls broadleaf weeds such as Eastern black nightshade, lamb’s quarters and pigweed – including Group 2 and triazine-resistant biotypes. Grant Deveson, Nufarm’s commercial manager in Canada, told a

Cereals, News

CWB Repeats Its Conditions For Approving GM Wheat

By Allan Dawson April 7, 2011

A number of conditions must be met before the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) will support the introduction of genetically modified (GM) wheat in Canada. “We feel there needs to be rules put into place,” District 10 CWB director Bill Toews told farmers here last month. “Before any of that happens there has to be an

Daily Network News

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