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U. S. Soybean Stockpile Reduced

By Charles Abbott May 21, 2009

U. S. soybean exports will hit a record 1.21 billion bushels this marketing year, helping whittle the U. S. stockpile to 165 million bushels, the smallest in five years, the government forecast on April 9. “That is a tight number,” Don Roose, analyst for U. S. Commodities, said of the stockpile, roughly a three-week supply.

News, Oilseeds

Biotech Corn, Soy Does Little To Boost Yield

By Christopher Doering April 23, 2009

Despite industry claims of higher yields from biotech corn and soybeans, much of the increase can be tied to other improvements in agriculture, according to a study released April 14. The Union of Concerned Scientists said its review found genetically engineered herbicide-tolerant soybeans and corn did not increase yields compared with conventional methods. Still, farmers

Forages, News

Nine Named To Hall Of Fame

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff April 16, 2009

Farmers, rural advocates and builders from the public sector are among the nine new inductees to Manitoba’s Agricultural Hall of Fame. This year’s inductees announced on April 9, are to be formally recognized at an induction ceremony July 16 for “outstanding contribution to the improvement of agriculture and the betterment of rural living in the

Cereals, Crops, Forages

Viterra Rolls Out Weed Killers For Wheat, Peas

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff April 16, 2009

Viterra has added a Group 1 herbicide for wheat growers and a Group 2 broadleaf and grassy weed product for field pea and bean crops to its new roster of company-branded crop protection products. Foothills contains the Group 1 active ingredient clodinafoppropargyl, the same used by Syngenta in its Horizon products. It’s registered for use

News

U. S. Farm-Cut Fight Far From Over

By Charles Abbott April 9, 2009

The fight to cut U. S. farm subsidies is just beginning in Congress despite a committee vote against a $250,000-a-year cap on payments, a limit supported by the White House, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says. “Let’s see where things end up,” Vilsack said during an interview with Reuters March 27. He said deficit hawks in

Cereals, Crops, News, Oilseeds

Fewer Wheat/ Double-Crop Soy Sowings — Usda

April 9, 2009

Plantings of the eight major U. S. field crops are expected to be down in 2009 due to fewer wheat seedings and less double-crop soybean acreage, the Agriculture Department’s chief economist said April 1. USDA’s annual prospective plantings report indicated there will be a decline of 7.1 million acres, or 2.8 per cent, from 2008

Country Crossroads, Hogs, Other livestock, Poultry

Core Buyers Are Loyal To Their Preferred Meats

By Jim Romahn April 9, 2009

Martin Gooch of the George Morris Centre has posted detailed reports on consumer surveys for chicken, lamb, veal and pork. It’s the most complete set of data available and was collected with funding from the federal Agriculture Department’s National Advancing Canadian Agricultural and Agri-Food Program. For chicken, the research found that the average Canadian household

Crops

U. S. Farmland May Be Carbon Sink

April 2, 2009

The Conser vat ion Reserve, which pays owners to idle fragile U. S. farmland, could become one of the largest carbon sequestration programs on private land, an Agriculture Department official said March 25. Some farm-state lawmakers say efforts to reduce greenhouse gases could result in a payoff in rural America because some agricultural practices, such

News

U. S. To Check If Farmer Income Too High For Subsidy

April 2, 2009

The government will check U. S. tax forms so it doesn’t pay crop subsidies to ineligible rich Americans, the administration said March 19. “The goal is to limit excessive payments while providing for fairness to family farmers,” said Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner in a statement. President Barack Obama has pledged to close farm-program loopholes that

Livestock

U. S. Needs Mandatory Livestock Traceback — Lawmakers

By Charles Abbott March 26, 2009

The U. S. government should require livestock producers to enrol in a traceback system, a primary U. S. defence against mad cow disease, because voluntary signups are not working, two key congressmen said on March 11. The chief veterinarian at the Agriculture Department said at a House Agriculture subcommittee hearing “it is time to reassess

Daily Network News

‘Like gold’: Europe’s barley prices climb as buyers chase supply

Ag in Motion wins business tourism award

U.S. livestock: ‘Relentless’ fund selling knocks down CME cattle futures

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