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Crops, Oilseeds

Argentina Revisits Export Tax Scheme

Argentina may revive a controversial tax system on grain exports, a local newspaper reported April 10, in a move that could raise tensions with farmers in one of the world’s main suppliers of grains. A similar plan to raise taxes on soy exports in 2008 sparked nationwide farmer protests that rattled global commodity markets and
Beef cattle, Forages, Livestock, News

Cold Weather Makes Cattle “Greener”

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Cattle emit less methane in the winter than in summer, a recent study has discovered. And now that the results have been sent to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, scientists will use it to develop a more accurate picture of the true contribution of ruminants to global warming. Previously, the IPCC had not taken
Cereals, Opinion

Letters – for Apr. 14, 2011

Open letter to Brian Otto, president of Western Barley Growers Association: I dissected the results of the CWB elections and found a very different result and meaning than the outcome your ads proclaim. Upon looking at who originally voted in the first round and then calculating where they went on the second ballot, it became
Cereals, Grain Markets, Oilseeds

Waters Remain Muddied For Seeding Predictions

Canola futures on the ICE Futures Canada trading platform were mixed during the week ended April 8, with old-crop months down and new-crop contracts posting advances. The sell-off of the nearby May and July canola futures reflected the ample old-crop supply situation and the absence of demand from the domestic and export sectors. Talk surfaced
Crops, Oilseeds

New Grassy Weed Product

Farmers of North America has unleashed its own entry in the cat-themed grassy weed herbicide market for wheat and barley growers. Saskatoon-based FNA, which brokers deals for lower-cost imports of ag inputs on members’ behalf in the West, Ontario and Quebec, said Wednesday its product HellCat will be available for its members this spring. FNA
Crops, Forages, Livestock, News

Pasture Days Insurance Enters Second Year

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Wet weather limited Dane Guignion’s ability to harvest hay last summer – and the time his cattle spent grazing on pasture. Guignion had crop insurance contracts for both hay production and days on pasture. He didn’t get paid for the first one. He did for the second. The reason? The hay was there but Guignion
Opinion

Don’t Overlook Feed Value Of DDGs

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Ethanol producers often get much of the blame for driving the price of corn to its current multi-year high levels due to that industry’s strong usage of corn to make fuel. But critics overlook the growing production and distribution of Dried Distillers Grains (DDGs), a byproduct of ethanol output used in animal feeds as an
Cereals, Crops, Forages

Two Growers Needed To Try Something New

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Ever wonder what would happen if you just dumped a shotgun blast of legume, cereal and brassica seeds into the seeder and drilled it in? Two or more growers in the southwest and southeast corners of the province are needed to do just that, as MAFRI’s polycrop trial enters its second year. “The multicropping thing,
Grain Markets, Oilseeds

Trading Refocuses On Market Fundamentals

Canola contracts traded on the ICE Futures Canada plat form chopped around within a narrow range during the week ended March 25, but the bias was to the upside in the end. The market took a much-needed breather after seeing some volatile price swings over the past month. With consolidation the order of the day,

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