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In Brief… – for Feb. 24, 2011

By Reuters February 24, 2011

Correction:The building on the Reimer farm now housing Manitoba’s new model fish operation near Warren was in the past occasionally used for chicken rearing, but was most recently used to store farm machinery. A story in our Feb. 17 issue identified the facility as a former chicken barn. – Staff Food rights:India continues to face

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Agronomy Growing Focus Of National Sunflower Association

By Gord Gilmour February 17, 2011

The National Sunflower Association of Canada is upping its agronomy game with the addition of a new staff agronomist. Even though Ed Stroeder, who’s based in Gladstone, is barely a month into his new job, he was front and centre this week at the Manitoba Crop Symposium. Agronomy is a challenge for the Canadian industry

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Two New Sunflower Crop Protection Products In The Works

By Gord Gilmour February 17, 2011

Manitoba sunflower growers can expect to add two new products to their crop protection arsenals over the next couple of seasons. DuPont representat ive Frances Boddy told sunflower producers at last week’s Special Crops Symposium that the fungicide Vertisan is pending approval from the PMRA, the federal regulatory body that registers farm chemicals. The product

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GM Crop Patents Near End, U.S. Farmers Ask What Next?

January 20, 2011

The biotechnology industry should develop a format to handle the looming expiration of patents on the first wave of genetically modified (GM) crops, to avoid seed shortages or trade disruptions, the largest U.S. farm group said. “There just needs to be a way to deal with it,” Rosemarie Watkins of the six-million-member American Farm Bureau

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DuPont Says New Corn Seed Yields Better In Droughts

By Carey Gillam January 13, 2011

DuPont said on Jan. 5 it was launching a new corn seed that would yield better in “water-limited” environments, as growers around the world seek ways to maximize production during droughts. DuPont, which owns Pioneer Hi-Bred, one of the world’s largest agricultural seed companies, is introducing a limited quantity of the corn hybrids for planting

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South Africa Balks At Seed Company Consolidation

By Carey Gillam January 13, 2011

The derailment of DuPont’s intended acquisition of a top South African seed company – a deal that would have doubled DuPont’s African seed business – is emboldening activists opposed to creeping control by both DuPont and rival Monsanto of the lucrative emerging market. Citing unfair control in South Africa by the two dominant U.S. seed

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Crop Use In Biofuel Production Near Peak

By Alex Binkley December 9, 2010

New technologies for producing ethanol and biodiesel should put an end to the food-versus-fuel debate, the Renewable Fuels Summit has heard. But farmers won’t lose their connection to the alternate fuel industry because crop residues and other farm wastes will be in demand as feedstock for the new production processes, says Sam Kanes, an analyst

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Friction Boffins See Future In Plant-Based Oils

By Daniel Winters December 2, 2010

There’s one simple reason why Linnaeus Plant Sciences founder Jack Grushcow would rather talk about camelina as a lubricant than as camelina in your tank. Fuel sells for around $1 per litre, but hydraulic fluid sells for $5 per litre. The Vancouver-based entrepreneur told the recent Canadian Weed Science Society’s annual meeting there are a

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Private Equity Sees “Buckets Of Money” In Water Buys

By Laura Macinnis November 18, 2010

Water scarcity will generate big returns for the irrigation sector once climate change and population growth take their toll on farming, private equity managers said Nov. 9. Asked at an agriculture investing conference whether it is possible to make money from water, typically a public good rather than a bankable commodity, Judson Hill of NGP

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Monsanto Drops Shared-Risk Program After 11 Seasons

By Allan Dawson October 28, 2010

Monsanto’s sharedrisk program, which over the last 11 seasons refunded almost $40 million to western Canadian canola growers who lost Roundup Ready canola crops early in the growing season, has been scrapped. “The long and short of it, even though the grower wouldn’t see this, the cost of the program obviously outweighed the benefits,” said

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U.S. livestock: Cattle, hog futures rise on first WASDE since September

U.S. export sales include only small soybean business to China

U.S. corn and soybean yields revised down by USDA

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In Brief… – for Feb. 24, 2011

Agronomy Growing Focus Of National Sunflower Association

Two New Sunflower Crop Protection Products In The Works

GM Crop Patents Near End, U.S. Farmers Ask What Next?

DuPont Says New Corn Seed Yields Better In Droughts

South Africa Balks At Seed Company Consolidation

Crop Use In Biofuel Production Near Peak

Friction Boffins See Future In Plant-Based Oils

Private Equity Sees “Buckets Of Money” In Water Buys

Monsanto Drops Shared-Risk Program After 11 Seasons

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