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U.S. corn quality concerns linger despite better test results

By Julie Ingwersen, Tom Polansek April 9, 2013

Reuters / The quality of last year’s drought-hit U.S. corn harvest remains under scrutiny because of worries about toxins that flourish in dry weather, despite improved test results for export shipments. The U.S. Grains Council, which works to promote exports, said in a report on Wednesday that 77.8 per cent of corn samples tested at

Crops

Ontario expected to ship a million tonnes of corn to the U.S. for feed and ethanol

By Karl Plume, Rod Nickel April 9, 2013

Reuters / Canadian corn is flowing to U.S. ethanol plants and feed suppliers in larger-than-usual volumes, with up to one million tonnes expected in 2012-13, as a large Ontario crop backfills demand after last year’s severe U.S. drought. Canada is normally a net importer of corn, feeding Eastern Canada’s pigs and poultry and supplying Ontario

Crops, Oilseeds

Spraying off label reduces yield and costs farmers money

April 9, 2013

Survey work conducted in 2012 by Stratus Agri-Marketing Inc. for Monsanto Canada shows the farmer practice of spraying off label is becoming more common. The Stratus research results — compiled from online surveys with over 1,700 farmers — confirm 45 per cent of farmers sprayed above label rates, up eight percentage points from 2011. The

Country Crossroads, Dairy cattle

Non-nutritive sweeteners

By Julie Garden-Robinson April 9, 2013

Every now and then, someone emails me a story that is circulating on the Internet or Facebook. One day, the information was about artificial sweeteners. I happened to have a can of diet soda next to me. After reading the article, I could imagine the can of pop sprouting legs and clawed hands and then

Cereals, Crops, News, Oilseeds

Arysta launches broadleaf/grass/burndown combo

March 28, 2013

Arysta LifeScience has launched Inferno Duo Herbicide for spring wheat growers in Canada. Arysta says it combines the enhanced broadleaf activity of tribenuron (the same active ingredient in Express SG) with broadleaf and longer-lasting soil activity on grasses of flucarbazone. Inferno Duo also provides wide-spectrum burndown when mixed with glyphosate. “Together with glyphosate, Inferno Duo

Country Crossroads, Dairy cattle

Yes, we still need to limit salt intake

By Julie Garden-Robinson March 28, 2013

Here’s some tips to help you manage that You may have heard the advice to leave your salt shaker in the cupboard, however, most of the salt in foods is not added at the table. Most sodium comes from highly processed foods, such as dinner mixes, or from restaurant or fast foods. Most table salt

Crops, Weather

Prairie broadleaf herbicides cleared for aerial use

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff March 28, 2013

If this spring should turn muddy, any cereal growers who may not be able to get at broadleaf weeds with a ground sprayer will have three additional Group 4 options for an aerial strike. Dow AgroSciences announced last week it has picked up registrations for aerial use of Prestige XC, Attain XC and OcTTain XL,

Crops

Brazil potash deposit has 18 years of country’s needs

By Sabrina Lorenzi March 28, 2013

Reuters / A Brazilian fertilizer deposit owned by Canada’s Brazil PotashCorp has potash reserves equal to at least 18 years of Brazil’s potassium-fertilizer needs, a source with direct knowledge of the project told Reuters. The mine project has total potassium reserves of about 500 million tonnes of which at least 125 million, or a quarter,

Crops, News, Weather

Ethanol maker plans controversial water wells to maintain production through drought

By P.J. Huffstutter March 28, 2013

Reuters / In a bid to churn out ethanol even in the worst of droughts, Archer Daniels Midland Co., the nation’s largest producer of corn-based biofuel, is preparing to break ground on two new water collector wells to aid a key Illinois corn-processing plant. The 40-foot collector wells, to be dug on the company’s property

Crops, Grain Markets

Ethanol eyed for lowering U.S. surplus sugar mountain

By Charles Abbott March 28, 2013

Reuters / The U.S. government is readying a tool created during last decade’s biofuels craze — a never-used program to sell sugar at a loss to ethanol makers — as a way to whittle a looming sugar surplus down to an affordable size. The sugar-for-ethanol program could be a lower-cost way for the Agriculture Department

Daily Network News

Trump tells farmers that tractor companies should lower prices

Get farmers in on federal water security strategy planning, CFA says

U.S. finalizes biofuel blending quotas for 2026-27, cuts RINS for foreign feedstocks

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