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DDGS Contract Futures Launched

The CME Group launched its distillers dried grain with solubles (DDGs) futures contract April 25. The contract will trade only on the electronic Globex platform. It aims to provide corn-based ethanol makers hedge protection by creating a true “corn crush” in combination with corn, ethanol and natural gas futures. A third of corn used in
Livestock

Drying Corn Can Lock Away Its Feed Energy

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One of the risks involved with using Ontario’s 2009 corn crop for poultry is the amount of drying required. It might have destroyed enzymes, and some protein and energy might be bonded to each other and not available to poultry. That’s according to Dr. Mike Leslie, poultry nutritionist for Masterfeeds, at a producer update meeting
Cereals, Crops

Durum Displaces Barley In Feed Rations

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Feed barley values in the Lethbridge region have moved lower over the past few weeks, but are now stabilizing as farmer selling backs away. In an interview Feb. 19, Jim Beusekom, a Lethbridgebased feed grains broker with Market Place Commodities Ltd., said feed barley prices have stabilized at the bottom end of their trading range,
Cereals, News

Ethanol Byproduct Cuts Into Barley Bids

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Imported Dried Distillers Grains with Solubles (DDGS) is increasingly displacing barley in the western Canadian feedlot sector, industry sources say. The loss in barley’s cash value was seen continuing given that DDGS have now become part of a scheduled program by the feedlot industry. “The need to cover barley needs by end-users has been slowing
Cereals, Crops

Rapemeal Seen Threatened By U. K. Biofuels Expansion

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Rapeseed meal’s place in animal feed rations in Britain looks under threat with the first of two major bioethanol ref ineries due to enter commercial production soon, industry sources said Jan. 28. Ensus is due to ramp up its biorefinery in northeast England during the first quarter of this year. It will take about 1.1
Livestock

Vomitoxin Tests Ramped Up In U. S. Corn

Ethanol plants and elevators in the eastern U. S. Midwest have ramped up efforts to test incoming corn for vomitoxin, industry officials said last week. “(Ethanol) plants are testing every load of inbound corn for vomitoxin specifically,” particularly in areas where mould problems have been identified, said Geoff Cooper of the Renewable Fuels Association, an
Cereals, Crops

Distillers Grain Set To Ride Ethanol Coattails

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Demand for distill-ers grain, a byproduct of distilling corn into ethanol, will continue to grow domestically and abroad as livestock producers turn to the feed as a cheaper alternative to corn, analysts said. And with the ethanol industry gearing up for a better year in 2010 after the financial crisis of 2008 triggered by corn
Cereals, Grain Markets

Ethanol Still Supporting Grain Markets

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For three-times-daily market reports from Don Bousquet and RNI, visit “ICE Futures Canada updates” at www.manitobacooperator.ca Grain and oi l seed prices at ICE Futures Canada in Winnipeg closed the week ended Sept. 25 lower with modest losses in canola. Canola was pressured down by the advancing harvest, favourable weather, bearish technical signals, slower demand
Crops

Bacteria Could Transform Ethanol Sector

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A compost bacteria bred by a British company could be set to transform both the profitability and environmental credentials of the U. S. ethanol industry. “The application of our technology results in the greening of corn ethanol,” Hamish Curran, chief executive officer of TMO Renewables Ltd. said in an interview Sept. 15. The company provides

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