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Livestock Producers Alerted To Hedge Meal

David drozd So y b e a n meal prices have rallied $42 per ton over the past five weeks. On June 9, technical analysis signalled traders and livestock producers alike to expect prices to turn back up. Technical analysis is the study of market movement. Its strength and popularity comes from the explicit assumption
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Farmers Warned About Rising Interest Rates

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The Bank of Montreal is telling Canada’s farmers to do a better job of managing their debt or risk instability from higher interest rates. BMO cites George Brinkman, an authority on farm viability, as warning about “an unsettling outlook” from high levels of farm debt made worse by rising interest rates over the next three
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Get Paid ASAP

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The Canadian Grain Commission (CGC) tries to ensure grain companies have enough security posted to cover farmers against payment defaults, but sometimes the security falls short. That’s why the CGC urges farmers to get paid right away. Farmers can make a claim against a company’s security if they are not paid within 90 days from
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Technical Signals A Warning To Investors

David drozd On Thursd a y, May 6, 2010 the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) suffered a severe 1,000-point drop that sent shock waves around the world. To this day, investors from far and wide have been trying to understand why. Ludicrous rumours surfaced – one being that someone had accidently entered an order to
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Manitoba Women’s Institute Making A Difference

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“You brought forward issues that helped shape the world. You were the kind of organization that governments listened to.” – MINISTER OF FINANCE ROSANN WOWCHUK The tiny white spruce trees handed out at the Manitoba Women’s Institute convention last week are a fitting reminder of MWI’s contributions “for home and country” over the past century.
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Agriculture A Good Buy When Volcanoes Erupt

LONDON/REUTERS Agricultural commodities were left in the dust as base metal prices boomed last year, but now represent the better investment, commodities bull Jim Rogers told Reuters April 29. “I’d rather buy agriculture, which didn’t move up, and I don’t want to buy base metals because they did go up,” he told Reuters in a
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So What? Now What?

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Managing the risk in your business is becoming increasingly important. Typically, people tend to associate risk with negative outcomes. But there can be an upside to risk as well, risk that correlates to opportunity. For some, the past couple of years have realized perhaps even windfall-like profits with an expectation that, due to a shift
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Province Wary About Hog Loan Payment Extension

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“We can pay this in the long run. But the long run has to be at least 10 years.” – ANDREW DICKSON, MPC The Manitoba government is close to easing repayment conditions for special loans to financially strapped hog farmers but it may not be the kind of relief producers want. The province may temporarily
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Agriculture Budget Feels The Axe

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Manitoba Finance Minister Rosann Wowchuk has slashed agriculture spending as part of an effort to shore up funding for other key government programs in the year ahead. Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives will spend $215.5 million in the coming fiscal year, 4.2 per cent less than in 2009-10, according to provincial spending estimates. Only
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Two-Month Reversal Warns Of Euro’s Impending Collapse

David drozd If you don’t think the failing euro doesn’t affect your bottom line, think again. Since the end of November 2009, the euro has lost about 12.5 per cent of its value relative to the U. S. dollar index and 15 per cent to the Canadian dollar – and this devaluation caused North American

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