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Opinion: Here we go again

By John Morriss November 16, 2015

First, the bad news. Farmers around the world did a great job last year. The good news? Farmers around the world did a great job last year. Such is the unfortunate reality of the grain market. As speakers at last week’s Cereals North America conference in Winnipeg said, the world is “awash with grain,” which

Our History

A new herbicide called Roundup, and a strike sets back grain exports

Our History: June 1979

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff June 25, 2015

This ad in our June 14, 1979 issue told farmers about some uses for a new herbicide called Roundup, which was handy as a spot or patch treatment for quackgrass and other perennials. The crop report for the week ending June 12 said seeding was 75 per cent complete for the province overall, but only

Crops, Markets

Reactions mixed on U.S. biofuel policy role in Canadian market

By GFM Network News, Jade Markus June 13, 2015

CNS Canada — The climate of the Canadian renewable fuel market could shift when the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency finalizes its new targets, some industry professionals say. Revised biofuel targets recently proposed by the EPA would reduce standards put in place in 2007. The changes would adjust Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) regulations by reducing volume

Crops, Markets

Expansion in U.S. ethanol on hold after blending targets slashed

By GFM Network News, Michael Hirtzer June 2, 2015

Chicago | Reuters –– Expansion in the U.S. ethanol industry, stuck in neutral for more than a year as the government debated biofuel blending requirements, is now likely to come to a screeching halt. With the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency last week essentially maintaining the so-called blend wall that mandates nearly every gallon of gasoline

Crops, Markets

U.S. seeks middle ground on biofuel targets, pleasing few

By Chris Prentice, GFM Network News May 29, 2015

New York | Reuters — U.S. regulators on Friday unveiled much-delayed biofuel targets that sought to strike a middle ground for the nation’s contentious renewable fuels policy but still met with threats of legal action from two of the biggest industries, oil and corn. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) decided to raise its previous target

Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: Corn rebounds on short-covering, bullish ethanol data

By GFM Network News, Karl Plume May 28, 2015

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn futures on Thursday rebounded from a seven-month low after three days of declines in a short-covering bounce and following a government report showing higher ethanol output and lower stocks of the corn-based biofuel. Wheat futures were mixed as a weaker dollar and concerns about the outlook for crops in

Samples are taken from a load of corn at IGPC’s Aylmer, Ont. ethanol plant. (IGPC.ca)

Crops, Markets

Ont. co-op swaps corn supply line for ethanol plant

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff April 29, 2015

Corrected, April 30, 2015 — Farmer co-operative IGPC plans to switch to Thompsons from Cargill as the main corn supplier for its southwestern Ontario ethanol processing plant, starting this fall. Thompsons Ltd. will start buying corn immediately for deliveries from Oct. 1 onward to the Aylmer, Ont. ethanol plant, IGPC (Integrated Grain Processors Co-operative) said in a

Crops, Opinion

Editorial: Black swan?

By John Morriss April 13, 2015

Among the many topics in the science news releases last week was one from the University of East Anglia in the U.K. “A new study pinpoints five strains of yeast capable of turning agricultural byproducts, such as straw, sawdust and corncobs, into bioethanol — a well-known alcohol-based biofuel,” the release said. We’ve seen similar news

Crops, Markets

U.S. EPA to propose biofuels standards this spring

By GFM Network News, Reuters February 19, 2015

Grapevine, Tex. | Reuters — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency plans to put out a proposal that will address Renewable Fuels Standards for 2014, 2015 and 2016 this spring, an agency official at an industry conference in Grapevine, Tex., said Thursday. The agency will address all three years at once and plans to look at

Crops, Markets

Refiners urge EU to rethink renewables policy after oil collapse

By GFM Network News, Reuters January 19, 2015

Antwerp | Reuters –– European oil refiners urged the European Union on Monday to review laws calling for increased biodiesel content in road fuel because the cost of such renewables will counter the recent plunge in crude prices and weigh on the refining sector. “Governments should not inflict extra burden on the public by increasing

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

Tag Archives Ethanol

Opinion: Here we go again

A new herbicide called Roundup, and a strike sets back grain exports

Reactions mixed on U.S. biofuel policy role in Canadian market

Expansion in U.S. ethanol on hold after blending targets slashed

U.S. seeks middle ground on biofuel targets, pleasing few

U.S. grains: Corn rebounds on short-covering, bullish ethanol data

Ont. co-op swaps corn supply line for ethanol plant

Editorial: Black swan?

U.S. EPA to propose biofuels standards this spring

Refiners urge EU to rethink renewables policy after oil collapse

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