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Like most American belts, the Corn Belt has expanded too

By Julie Ingwersen March 25, 2013

North Dakota corn acreage has doubled since 2006 and quadrupled since 2001 Reuters / A combination of a long-term warming trend, improved varieties and soaring profits has sparked a “corn boom” in the Northern Plains that might one day turn North and South Dakota into the new Iowa, analysts say. “All you need to do

Weather

Winter’s still hanging on

By Daniel Bezte March 16, 2013

Spring is typically the toughest time of the year to forecast the weather as the atmosphere becomes a battleground between winter and summer air masses. This year seems to be particularly tough on the weather models as they routinely make dramatic changes to their forecasts every six to 12 hours. This is exactly what happened

Crops, International news, News

Professor decries local-food movement and praises the ‘10,000-mile diet’

By Victoria Paterson March 16, 2013

Local food is mostly a fad that won’t last because it’s inferior to the “10,000-mile diet.” That was the message University of Toronto geography professor,a Pierre Desrochers delivered at the recent Alberta Beef Industry Conference in Banff. “It really has become a way to protest against ‘the man,’” Desrochers said. “Backwards is the new forward.”

Crops, Grain Markets, News, Opinion

Analysis: Are we near peak biofuels?

By Gerard Wynn March 16, 2013

It is now clear, depending on where the boundary is set in life-cycle estimates of carbon emissions,  that some biofuels offer limited or no benefits compared with conventional gasoline

London / Reuters / A stalled biofuel industry will need to produce far more efficient fuels to avoid setting off another bout of arguments over its contribution to boosting energy security and cutting carbon emissions. Biofuels had a difficult 2012. In the United States, Energy Information Administration data show production through November fell compared with

Crops, News

Think-tank sees U.S. ethanol output slump in 2012-13

By Reuters March 16, 2013

U.S. ethanol makers will produce 12.6 billion gallons of ethanol this marketing year, well below the federal target for use of the renewable fuel, because of high corn prices due to drought, said the influential think-tank Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute March 8. “Production recovers in 2013-14 because of lower corn prices and the

Beef cattle, Livestock

Cow-calf producers’ survival is still about production costs

By Kris Ringwall March 16, 2013

The times are good for prices, but cattle producers have a lot on their minds these days. Calving has started on many ranches, and the complicated production scenarios already are constantly churning for producers. Unfortunately, the dollars associated with many production scenarios often are in place well before adequate financial evaluations are done. The critical

Beef cattle, Livestock

Survival comes before expansion in the beef cattle business

By Kris Ringwall March 16, 2013

What would you say if someone told you that 40 per cent of the cow-calf producers are struggling to justify being in the beef business? After all, the cattle business is a great business and currently humming along through great times. If that is true, why is the industry not expanding? Good question and certainly

Weather

Are we in for a mid-month cold snap?

By Daniel Bezte March 7, 2013

Well, it looks like the models were a little off with the storm system that affected southern Manitoba during the start of this week. While initially the models had this low staying weak and tracking through southern regions, the low was able to tap into some deep moisture from the south which allowed it to

Beef cattle, Livestock, Livestock Markets, Weather

U.S. plains feedlot cattle suffer in blizzard

By Sam Nelson March 7, 2013

Reuters / Cattle in the vast U.S. High Plains region were stressed by this week’s severe blizzard, leading to big weight losses and boosting Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) live cattle futures prices, feeders and livestock experts said on Feb. 27. The storm dumped up to 20 inches of wet snow in some areas, accompanied by

News

EU member states say biofuels limit needs more thought

By Barbara Lewis, Charlie Dunmore March 8, 2013

Reuters / Limits must be imposed on the use of biofuels made from food crops, leading EU member states France and Britain said Feb. 22, while questioning the detail of a EU Commission proposal for a five per cent cap. Concern that some biofuels create more problems than they solve led to a major policy

Daily Network News

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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