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Western Canadian flaxseed prices edge higher

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Western Canadian flaxseed cash bids have advanced in the past month, with fresh export demand along with tight supply concerns contributing to the firmness, said an industry participant. “The Chinese market has really helped out western Canadian flax prices this year,” said Chuck Penner, an analyst with Left Field Commodity Research in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The
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Lower flax acres likely for 2012

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Saskatoon / Flaxseed acres in Western Canada will see a further drop from the already record-low levels seeded in 2011 if new crop prices don’t see considerable improvement by spring planting time, said Larry Weber of Weber Commodities, in a presentation to SaskFlax at the annual Crop Week in Saskatoon, Jan. 9. Western Canadian farmers,
News, Oilseeds

Manitoba Seeing A Products Revolution

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It takes a lot of energy to keep the largest greenhouse in Manitoba warm through a bone-chilling winter, and until five years ago, that energy source was natural gas at Vanderveens Greenhouses in Carman. With gas prices spiking and the cost of heating hundreds of thousands of square feet of greenhouse rising with it, the
News, Oilseeds

Canada Working On Low-Level GM Presence Policy

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Just a trace of an unapproved genetically modified (GM) plant can close borders costing grain traders and farmers millions in lost sales, something Canada knows all too well. In 2009 flax exports to the European Union (EU) were disrupted after they were found to contain low levels of CDC Triffid, a GM flax approved in
Hogs, News, Oilseeds

In Brief… – for Sep. 1, 2011

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More soybeans:Global soybean stocks will exceed estimates and keep soybean supplies in the upcoming 2011-12 season sufficient despite a lower-than-forecast crop, oilseeds analysts Oil Worldsaid Aug. 23. “World ending stocks of the 2010-11 season will be higher than expected at a record 75.8 million tonnes (on Aug. 31), approximately 10 million tonnes above a year
Crops, Oilseeds

Flax Is The 97-Pound Weakling Of Crops

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Flax is a wimp. That’s why weed and disease control and fertility are key to getting a good yield, says Anastasia Kubinec, Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives’ (MAFRI) oilseeds specialist. “Flax hasn’t had the genetic improvement like canola,” she told those attending the 16th annual Crop Diagnostic School organized by MAFRI and University of
Crops, Oilseeds

Flax Could Build Better Cars Or Improve Health

Researchers at the University of Alberta have deciphered the genetic code for flax using a highly efficient sequencing procedure developed by the Beijing Genomics Institute. Canadian researchers now have the genetic information to accelerate improvements for flax and to identify ways to adapt this ancient plant to modern uses, said Mike Deyholos, project researcher with
Crops, Oilseeds

Flax Council Reminds To Test For Triffid

The Flax Council of Canada is encouraging growers to ensure that all planting seed has been tested for the presence of Triffid prior to seeding. “Continued testing at all levels of the value chain is essential to reduce the frequency and severity of Triffid events found in the Canadian flax crop to the point where
Crops, Oilseeds

Early Seeding Boosts Flax Yields

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Last year, Manitoba’s flax crop averaged a disappointing 19 bushels an acre, not far off the 10-year average of 20. But there are ways to boost flax yields, says Anastasia Kubinec, an oilseed specialist with Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives. A survey of farmers who grew above-average-yielding flax found they planted at least 40
Crops, Oilseeds

Flax Growers Vote To Scrap Checkoff Cap

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The Manitoba Flax Growers Association (MFGA) wants the $275 cap removed from its farmer checkoff of half a per cent of the value of flax when it’s sold. MFGA members voted in favour of removing the cap at their annual meeting here March 3. The MFGA will ask the Agricultural Producers’ Organization Cer tification Agency

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