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Demand For U. S. Grains Picking Up

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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 oilseed future s at ICE Futures Canada in Winnipeg closed the week ended Feb. 12 mixed with weakness in the U. S. futures markets weighing on prices, although it was partially offset by the declining Canadian dollar.
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Industry Leader Looks Back On 30 Years Of Bean Industry Growth

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“It’s a great feeling.” – JACK FROESE, MPGA It’s the colour that keeps Jack Froese in the business of growing pulse crops. Just as golden kernels give delight to a corn grower, so the sight of bright-red, white, brown and black beans flowing into a combine hopper inspires Froese. “It’s a great feeling,” he says.
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New Corn Yield Competition Record

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It took 10 years, but a new record yield was set in the 2008 Manitoba Corn Grower Association’s (MCGA) yield competition. Niverville-area farmer Lorne Loeppky’s Pioneer 39D96 yielded 252.95 bushels an acre just barely exceeding the previous record of 252.61 set by Ken and Merley Wiebe in 1998. In 2008, a new record average yield
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China Waters Thirsty Wheat Crop

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China’s main wheat crop may emerge mostly unscathed from a dire drought as Beijing moves to fund last-minute irrigation, reviving crops that might otherwise have been left to die by farmers struggling with low prices and oversupply. A domestic media outcry and public hand-wringing about the severity of the drought triggered some speculation that the
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World Wheat Crop A Record In 2008

World wheat output jumped 12.4 per cent in 2008 to 686 million tonnes, driving global cereals output to record highs, the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization said Feb. 12, raising its earlier estimates. But smaller planted areas and bad weather are likely to trigger a fall in output of wheat and other cereals in
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Ethanol Seen Taking Third Of U. S. Gasoline Market

The United States could replace nearly a third of gasoline consumption with ethanol mainly made from plant waste and special energy crops in about 20 years, according to a study released Feb. 10. Some 75 billion gallons of ethanol per year could be made from non-food cellulosic feedstocks, like wood waste and fast-growing grasses, and
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Resurgent Grains May Stoke U. S. Food Prices

ANALYSIS BY SAM NELSON A resurgent U. S. grain market, stoked by drought in South America, spells more financial troubles for struggling meat producers and higher food prices for consumers already pinched by the recession. The worst drought in decades in Argentina, and in neighbouring Brazil, is helping to rally prices of corn and soybeans
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U. S., Argentina set for corn export battle

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“Our export estimations will probably have to be adjusted down, considering the effect that the drought is likely to have on production.” – Patricia Bergero, Rosario Grain Exchange The recent surge in U. S. corn sales could end soon as Argentina, the world’s second-largest exporter behind the United States, emerges with a new crop and
Cereals, Grain Markets, Oilseeds

Canola Use At Record Pace, Supply Declining

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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 oilseed futures at ICE Futures Canada in Winnipeg closed the week ended Feb. 6 higher, with gains in the U. S. futures markets supporting prices. Canola rallied, as China picked up at least five cargoes and was
Crops, Oilseeds

New hybrid trait development process

BASF, the world’s leading chemical company, and Cibus, a leading plant trait development technology company, say they have reached a significant research milestone for developing Clearfield Production System plants in Brassica winter oilseed rape and in spring canola. Cibus’s patented Rapid Trait Development System (RTDSTM) was used to enhance the tolerance levels of spring canola

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