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China plans to cut domestic corn prices to shrink stockpiles

By GFM Network News, Niu Shuping November 27, 2015

Beijing | Reuters — Beijing plans to cut local corn prices for a second year as it pushes to reignite stalled demand from its crisis-hit grain processors and whittle down the world’s biggest corn stockpile, industry sources said. In its latest move to boost a sector that has struggled with the world’s most expensive domestic

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Large Brazilian corn exports to continue

By Dave Sims, GFM Network News November 4, 2015

Commodity News Service Canada – Brazil could be on pace to export as much as 31 million to 34 million tonnes of corn by the end of the 2015/16 marketing year, according to Pedro Dejneka, the executive director of AgResource’s Latin America division, speaking at the Cereals North America conference in Winnipeg on November 3.

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Oats steady and low, but price-wise the worst is over

By GFM Network News, Jade Markus October 28, 2015

Manitoba’s oat market is sitting low and stagnant, but since the commodity traditionally tracks corn futures, prices aren’t likely to depreciate further, says a U.S. analyst. “I think Manitoba farmers were expecting a lot better and Saskatchewan farmers were expecting a lot worse, but really when the combines got in the field—you know everything was

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Monsanto clears USDA regulatory hurdle for new GM corn

By GFM Network News, Karl Plume, P.J. Huffstutter October 24, 2015

Chicago | Reuters — The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Friday signed off on a new genetically modified type of corn developed by Monsanto after a review concluded it posed no significant threat to agricultural crops, other plants or the environment. USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced it would deregulate Monsanto’s MON

In spite of expectations for increased seeding of winter wheat, the immediate challenges include the price per bushel and managing fusarium head blight. (Ralph Pearce photo)

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Pearce: Winter wheat’s challenges go beyond just the seeding

By GFM Network News October 22, 2015

For the past five growing seasons, winter wheat has taken it on the chin in terms of its status as one of the Big Three crops in Eastern Canada. Compared to soybeans, which have seen a steady climb to the three million-acre mark in those five seasons, wheat has suffered from poor seeding conditions with

Crops, Markets

Feed: Corn awaiting USDA, Sask. barley yields near average

By GFM Network News, MarketsFarm Team October 9, 2015

CNS Canada –– Following are a few highlights in the Canadian and world feed grains markets on Friday, Oct. 9. • CBOT corn futures were posting small gains Friday morning, but were holding rangebound overall as traders were squaring positions ahead of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s monthly supply/demand report due out later in the

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Manitoba corn growers warily eye moisture content

By Dave Sims, GFM Network News September 21, 2015

CNS Canada — While harvest is underway for most farmers across Western Canada, many corn growers are busy eyeing the moisture content in their plants. “I know of guys testing at 32 per cent (moisture content of the kernels). That’s abnormal for this time of year,” said Morgan Cott, an agronomist with the Manitoba Corn

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China to stockpile corn during 2015-16 at lower price

By GFM Network News, Reuters September 20, 2015

Beijing | Reuters — The Chinese government will continue its controversial corn stockpile policy during 2015-16 and will start to stock the grain from farmers at a lower price compared with last year, government bodies said in a statement late Friday. Beijing will pay 2,000 yuan (C$414) per tonne to farmers in the northeast, the

DuPont Pioneer seed dealer Dale Alderson of Intel Seed counts corn kernels to get an estimate of potential yield. As of last week Alderson was cautiously optimistic if all goes well Manitoba farmers could harvest a bumper corn crop this year. But as everyone knows, especially farmers much can happen between now and when the corn is in the bin.

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VIDEO: Fingers crossed for a bumper corn crop this harvest

Yield potential is high following nearly ideal growing conditions  so far this season, but it’s still a long way from the bin

By Allan Dawson September 3, 2015

It’s too soon to call it a bin buster, but Manitoba’s corn crop is poised to be one of the best in a decade. Barring an early frost and with continued good weather the crop could top the 10-year average of 117 bushels per acre, corn experts say. Breaking the record 133 bushels an acre

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Some timetables loosen as Ont. neonic limits become law

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff June 9, 2015

Ontario’s corn and soybean growers and seed dealers will have slightly more time to manage some of their new duties as the province’s limits on neonicotinoid pesticides become legally binding. Ontario’s environment ministry on Tuesday announced its new provincial regulations — with a handful of changes from the draft legislation first published in March —

Daily Network News

Canadian Agricultural Safety Association promotes new vision for farm safety

BASF announces $27M Saskatoon canola breeding facility expansion

Klassen: Weaker fed markets add fear to feeder prices

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China plans to cut domestic corn prices to shrink stockpiles

Large Brazilian corn exports to continue

Oats steady and low, but price-wise the worst is over

Monsanto clears USDA regulatory hurdle for new GM corn

Pearce: Winter wheat’s challenges go beyond just the seeding

Feed: Corn awaiting USDA, Sask. barley yields near average

Manitoba corn growers warily eye moisture content

China to stockpile corn during 2015-16 at lower price

VIDEO: Fingers crossed for a bumper corn crop this harvest

Some timetables loosen as Ont. neonic limits become law

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