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U.S. organic growers appeal court ruling

By Carey Gillam April 15, 2012

A group of U.S. family farmers said March 28 it is appealing its lawsuit against Monsanto Co. to challenge the company’s patents on technologies for genetically modified seeds. The group of organic farmers and seed dealers says its industry is at risk from Monsanto’s growing market dominance. “Farmers are under threat. Our right to farm

Crops, Grain Markets, News, Oilseeds

USDA favours corn with 2012 crop insurance price guarantees

March 14, 2012

Chicago / Reuters / Crop insurance price guarantees for 2012 should encourage U.S. farmers to plant corn over soybeans, according to analysts. The U.S. Department of Agriculture set the guarantees, which act as the floor price for crop insurance policies, at $5.68 per bushel for corn and $12.55 a bushel for soybeans across most of

Crops

U.S. Farm Subsidy Reform Favours Midwest

By Reuters November 17, 2011

A plan to reform farm subsidies by guaranteeing revenue levels for farmers is a good deal for corn and soybeans growers but unfair to the rest of the country, senators from wheat states said. The senators demanded changes in a package drawn up by the chairs of the House and Senate agriculture committees. Those leaders

News

Record AgriInsurance Payouts Forecast For 2011

By Allan Dawson November 3, 2011

Manitoba farmers can expect record crop insurance payouts this year after an exceptionally wet spring followed by dry conditions most of the summer. Farmers will also pay higher crop insurance premiums next year to build up the program s reserves, drawn down by big payouts for the second year in a row. Craig Thomson, vice-president

Crops

Pumpkins Perk Up After Wet Spring

By Shannon VanRaes October 13, 2011

Things are coming up orange for pumpkin producers this year, despite a wet beginning for some. Not a bad crop at all, a little light though, said Trevor Schriemer of Schriemer Family Farm near Otterburne. But considering we had so much hot and dry weather, not bad at all. Schriemer began growing pumpkins four years

Cereals, Crops, Oilseeds

Big Canadian Crop Coming, Says StatsCan

By Allan Dawson September 1, 2011

While Canadian farmers will produce more wheat and a record-large canola crop in 2011, according to Statistic Canada, Manitoba’s crop production will be well below average. StatsCan estimated in its Aug. 24 report based on a July 11 survey all-wheat production of 24.076 million tonnes, up nearly four per cent from a year ago, and

Crops, Oilseeds

Brazil Brings Farming Muscle To Corn And Cotton

By Reese Ewing July 21, 2011

After transforming global agriculture by quintupling their soybean production since 1980, Brazilian farmers are now on the brink of crop breakthroughs in cotton and corn, long dominated by growers in America. Helped by high futures prices and a sustained local agricultural boom, cotton and corn acreage is spreading fast, despite being twice as capital intensive

News

Flooded Farmers To Receive Government Aid

By Ron Friesen July 7, 2011

Manitoba’s waterlogged farmers are being promised $194 million in government aid to help pay for crop losses and flood-related damage this year. MAFRI Minister Stan Struthers last week announced a recovery program aimed at topping up crop insurance, growing greenfeed for livestock and rehabilitating flood-damaged land. The AgriRecovery package still requires federal participation. Programs under

Opinion

The Climate Change Conundrum

By Laura Rance-Unger June 23, 2011

ith the June 20 crop insurance past, farmers and their crop insurance agents are pulling on their galoshes to assess the W damages from yet another spring with too much water. Cattle producers are worrying about winter feed supplies as they watch flood waters inundate their hayfields. We are told this year is one for

Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets, Oilseeds

U.S. Crop Futures A Victim Of Growers’ Success

By Commodity News Service June 23, 2011

Canola futures on the ICE Futures Canada trading platform experienced a setback in value during the week ended June 17. The significant downturn in CBOT (Chicago Board of Trade) soybean and soyoil futures helped to facilitate the losses in canola, with the steady liquidation of positions by speculators and, to some extent, commodity fund accounts

Daily Network News

Southern California honeybees show resistance to varroa mites

Pulse Weekly: SaskPulse optimistic despite input, crop price concerns

Canadian aquaculture should be classed as agriculture, industry groups say

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