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Black Sea Wheat Displacing European And U.S. Sales Competition

By Aleksandras Budrys November 10, 2011

Top Black Sea wheat producers will flood markets for the entire 2011-12 crop year, giving rivals little respite from high volumes of cheap grain, with Russia dominating in the first half of the season and Ukraine and Kazakhstan in the second. Massive Black Sea exports were pressur ing European wheat shipments their main competitor but

News

Floods May Damage Quarter Of Thai Rice Crop

By Apornrath Phoonphongphiphat November 10, 2011

Thailand may lose a quarter of its main rice crop in the nation s worst flooding in decades, the government estimates, which could boost prices of the staple and further squeeze shipments from the world s top exporter. The flood damage to rice comes at a time when Thailand, which accounts for about 30 per

News

City’s Sewage Discharges Detrimental To Lake Winnipeg

November 10, 2011

STAFF / Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP) was quick to pounce on recent news reports that the City of Winnipeg has been discharging partly treated sewage into the Red River. The news that the City of Winnipeg s South End Water Pollution Centre has been discharging up to 60 million litres of sewage into the Red

News

U.S. Needs Closer Watch On Afghan Farm Aid

November 3, 2011

The American Embassy in Kabul needs to do a better job of tracking aid to Afghanistan s Agriculture Ministry, which totalled $77 million last year, says a U.S. watchdog. The embassy should do more to evaluate whether the U.S. aid is properly used and whether the strategy to invest in the Agriculture Ministry is working,

Cereals, Crops, News

Kazakhstan Back In The Grain Export Business

By Reuters October 20, 2011

Kazakhstan s state-owned grain trader will return to the export market this season, shipping up to 1.5 million tonnes of what promises to be the country s biggest post- Soviet grain crop, the head of the company said. Beibitkhan Kabdrakhmanov, chairman of the management board at the Food Contract Corporat ion, forecast that Kazakhstan would

Crops

Award Recipient Pioneered Pesticide Container Recycling

October 6, 2011

STAFF / Cam Davreux, vice-president of stewardship for CropLife Canada from 1989 until his retirement in June 2011, was honoured for his commitment to environmental stewardship at the Conference on Canadian Stewardship in Halifax Sept. 20. Davreux was the push behind three stewardship programs in the Canadian crop protection industry that have gone on to

Weather

Record-Low Ice Volume In Arctic

By Daniel Bezte September 29, 2011

With beautiful fall weather firmly in place across pretty much all of Western Canada, the question for me is, exactly what should I discuss in this week s weather article? We ve already discussed just what Indian summer is, we have taken a look back at the summer of 2011, and we ve looked ahead

Opinion

We Can Do This

By Laura Rance-Unger September 22, 2011

It would be easy to spin a doomsday scenario from the conclusions of a recently released report on the world s ability to feed its growing population with diminishing resources. The Global Food and Farming Futures project, undertaken by the U.K. government under its Foresight program, consulted with 400 leading experts and stakeholders from 35

News

Inglis-Area Farmer Preserves Land In Its Natural State

By Bill Stilwell September 22, 2011

Future generations will be able to appreciate the beautiful landscape and varied wildlife in this area northwest of Riding Mountain National Park, thanks to a partnership between the Nature Conservancy of Canada and a retired Inglis-area cattle producer. Protecting the habitat in the Riding Mountain Aspen Parkland is important for future generations, according to the

Opinion

Step In The Right Direction

By Laura Rance-Unger September 8, 2011

Our hats off to Pembina Valley, Assiniboine Hills, and Turtle Mountain conservation districts, which have recently completed the Pembina River Integrated Watershed Management Plan. Thirty years ago, it was considered a real accomplishment when a group of neighbouring municipalities joined together to form a conservation district. After all, they were committing to co-operate on some

Daily Network News

Huge crops in South America says analyst

U.S. livestock: ‘Cattle on feed’ report supports prices

U.S. grains: Wheat trades near contract lows under ample global supply

Tag Archives Earth

Black Sea Wheat Displacing European And U.S. Sales Competition

Floods May Damage Quarter Of Thai Rice Crop

City’s Sewage Discharges Detrimental To Lake Winnipeg

U.S. Needs Closer Watch On Afghan Farm Aid

Kazakhstan Back In The Grain Export Business

Award Recipient Pioneered Pesticide Container Recycling

Record-Low Ice Volume In Arctic

Inglis-Area Farmer Preserves Land In Its Natural State

Step In The Right Direction

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