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Klassen: Feeder cattle market looks for direction

By GFM Network News, Jerry Klassen June 13, 2017

Western Canadian feeder cattle prices were once again unchanged from week-ago levels. After the major rally in late April and May, the market has basically traded in a sideways range and is looking for direction. Feedlot operators have experienced healthy margins during the first half of 2017 and this will likely continue until September. They

Crops, Markets, Weather

U.S. grains: Spring wheat futures climb on weather worries

By GFM Network News, Julie Ingwersen June 5, 2017

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. spring wheat futures traded on the Minneapolis Grain Exchange (MGEX) closed higher on Monday for a fourth straight session on fears of hot, dry weather in the northern Plains, while corn and soybean futures ended fractionally higher. MGEX July spring wheat ended up 5-1/4 cents at $5.89 per bushel and

Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: Winter wheat hits two-week lows, spring wheat rallies

By GFM Network News, Mark Weinraub June 1, 2017

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Board of Trade soft red winter wheat futures and K.C. hard red winter futures dropped to two-week lows on Thursday as forecasts for dry conditions in key growing areas raised the prospect of a quick start to harvest for both crops. “We have got a little bit drier forecast,” said

Livestock, Weather

Drought-related livestock tax deferral zones expand

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff March 28, 2017

More ranchers in Alberta, Ontario, Quebec, British Columbia and Nova Scotia will be able to defer some of their taxable income from livestock sales in 2016 due to drought. The federal government on Tuesday announced a second list of drought-designated regions where the livestock tax deferral provision will be allowed, along with the areas of

Australian countryside near Bendigo, northwest of Melbourne. (CIA.gov)

Beef cattle, Livestock

Beef makes the cut as Australia, China move to boost trade

By Colin Packham, GFM Network News March 23, 2017

Sydney | Reuters — Australia and China are expected to sign new bilateral agreements on beef exports, energy and security during a four-day visit by Chinese Premier Li Keqiang that began on Thursday. Li, the first sitting Chinese premier to visit Australia in 11 years, was welcomed to parliament in Canberra by Prime Minister Malcolm

Plants like this rose of Jericho are said to be ‘resurrection plants’ because they can appear all but dead, only to rapidly revive after they receive rainfall.

Crops, International news

Could ‘resurrection’ crops survive drought and feed a hungry planet?

Desert plants all but die, then are resurrected when the rains come, says one African research scientist

By Peter Lykke Lind March 22, 2017

Could harnessing the power of “resurrection plants” — with the ability to survive severe water shortages for years — hold the secret to feeding a hungry planet? Jill Farrant, a biology professor at Cape Town University, hopes that by putting resurrection plants’ survival skills into crops, making them drought tolerant, the world’s population could be

Livestock, Weather

Drought-hit tax deferral zones named

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff November 22, 2016

Ottawa has seen enough drought in parts of southwestern Alberta, southern and eastern Ontario and southwestern Quebec to offer deferrals on their ranchers’ 2016 income tax from breeding livestock sales. Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay on Tuesday released the federal government’s initial list of municipalities designated for the 2016 deferral. In Alberta, those areas include Clearwater,

A farmer works in his sugar cane field on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, India February 28, 2015.

Crops, International news

Sweet paradox: India’s drought-stricken farmers plant thirstiest crop

Erratic prices for vegetables, oilseeds and pulses limit the incentive for farmers to plant them

By Rajendra Jadhav October 31, 2016

Despite pleas from the government not to, Indian farmers like Santosh Wagh went right back to planting sugar cane as soon as the first nourishing monsoon rains brought water to his drought-stricken region of central India. For growers like Wagh, a 35-year-old from the Marathwada region in the west of India’s Maharashtra state, sugar cane

Malawian subsistence farmer Simon Sikazwe stands beside communal maize fields in Dowa near the capital Lilongwe, February 3, 2016. Late rains in Malawi threaten the staple maize crop and have pushed prices to record highs. About 14 million people face hunger in Southern Africa because of a drought exacerbated by an El Niño weather pattern, according to the United Nations World Food Program (WFP).

Crops, International news

Smarter farming could cut hunger in drought-hit Southern Africa — researchers

Too few resources are available to educate the continent’s farmers  about potential solutions to their problems

By Busani Bafana September 28, 2016

Southern African farmers facing hunger as a result of worsening drought know a lot about climate change but lack the resources to put solutions that work into place, agriculture and development researchers say. That is in part because government agricultural extension services, which offer training and advice to farmers, have too few agents, according to

Residents wait to fill their containers with water in a field in Latur, India, April 17, 2016.

International news

Trafficking risk rises as villagers flee India’s worst drought in decades

A flood of migrants from rural India are searching for water, food and jobs as they flee arid conditions

By Rina Chandran August 16, 2016

A mass migration of tens of thousands of people from rural India, sparked by the worst drought in decades, is fuelling concerns they may be trafficked or exploited. The migrants are searching for water, food, jobs and other basics of life, activists say. About 330 million people, almost a quarter of the country’s population, are

Daily Network News

U.S. grains: Corn and wheat futures firm on brisk exports, softer dollar

U.S. livestock: Chicago cattle, hogs rise

Russia has surplus of peas after failing to boost exports to China, analysts say

Tag Archives Drought

Klassen: Feeder cattle market looks for direction

U.S. grains: Spring wheat futures climb on weather worries

U.S. grains: Winter wheat hits two-week lows, spring wheat rallies

Drought-related livestock tax deferral zones expand

Beef makes the cut as Australia, China move to boost trade

Could ‘resurrection’ crops survive drought and feed a hungry planet?

Drought-hit tax deferral zones named

Sweet paradox: India’s drought-stricken farmers plant thirstiest crop

Smarter farming could cut hunger in drought-hit Southern Africa — researchers

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