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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
Cereals, Crops

Japan postpones changes on wheat imports

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Japan is postponing a plan to make its rigid wheat import system more flexible by at least several months after flour millers and other users protested that they are not in a position to take on more risk of price fluctuations. A more flexible system could lead to more imports through a simultaneous buy and
Cereals, Grain Markets, Oilseeds

Could Canola Acres Be A Record?

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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 f u t u re s at ICE Futures Canada in Winnipeg closed the week ended Jan. 30 lower, with canola posting only moderate losses. The fact that Asian demand has been sidelined by the Chinese
News, Oilseeds

Argentina declares drought emergency

Argentina’s President Cristina Fernandez has declared an agricultural emergency in areas affected by the worst drought to hit the country in four decades. The state of emergency will allow farmers in affected areas to defer some tax payments for one year, Fernandez said Jan. 26. Argentina, a leading world producer of soy, corn, wheat and
Cereals, News

CWB chief predicts stable prices in 2009

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World wheat, durum and malting barley prices will stabilize over the next 12 months and be “reasonably high” through 2009, according to Ian White, president and CEO of the Canadian Wheat Board. “Volatility should be reduced by increased stocks in the world, but any significant production or supply side shocks to the system… will reflect
News, Oilseeds, Poultry

U. S. farmers remain hopeful even as profits erode

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“With that kind of volatility you just lose track of fundamentals.” –Illinois farmer Garry Niemeyer Iowa farmer Gordon Wassenaar says he is optimistic about 2009, displaying a sometimes puzzling “glass half full” mentality needed in a profession in which Mother Nature can wipe out months of work overnight. He and other U. S. farmers notched
Cereals, Crops, News, Oilseeds

Australia set for big jump in oilseeds output

Australia’s 2008-09 soybean harvest will be the largest in two decades while its canola harvest will rise by half, the Australian Oilseeds Federation said in a crop report Jan. 20. The federation forecast the 2008-09 soybean harvest to rise to 128,220 tonnes from 34,730 tonnes the previous harvest, when drought cut plantings. AOF said there
Cereals, Grain Markets, Oilseeds

Canola looks good for 2009-10, but not as good as 2008-09

DON BOUSQUET It’s Your Business 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 Jan. 23 mixed, with canola pressured down by increased farmer selling, a firmer Canadian dollar and weakness in the Chicago
Cereals, Grain Markets, Oilseeds

Canola hits $10 in old and new crop

DON BOUSQUET It’s Your Business 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 Jan. 9 mixed. Canola rallied to two-month highs; strength in the Chicago soy complex, export demand as China and Pakistan
Crops, Oilseeds

Soybean crop surprisingly good in 2008

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It was a year in which almost everything that could go wrong did for Manitoba soybean producers. But in the end, things turned out surprisingly well. “We were very happy with the yields,” said Bruce Brolley, a Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives pulse crop specialist. You wouldn’t have known it from producers attending St.

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