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Joint Ventures Easier Without Land Ownership

March 10, 2011

In addition to being good for your farm business, separating land ownership from your farming business also makes it easier to develop joint ventures with other farmers or businesses, says Merle Good, a farm business specialist with Alberta Agriculture. Good himself has been part of a joint venture with two fellow timothy producers in his

Livestock, News

Pickled Stover Works For Cattle Feed

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff March 3, 2011

New research has shown that a substantial portion of the grain in cattle feed can be effectively replaced with corn stover – the plant’s stalks, cobs and leaves – when these harvest residues are treated with a common food ingredient known as hydrated lime, or pickling lime. The alternative feeding strategy, which could improve feeders’

Crops, Oilseeds

High Grain Prices Won’t Last Forever

By Allan Dawson February 17, 2011

High grain prices make farmers happy, but they make market analyst Chuck Penner nervous. It’s not that Penner, with LeftField Commodity Research, doesn’t like high prices. His apprehension comes from knowing sometime those prices will fall. When prices last spiked in 2007-08 at close to these levels, they went a bit higher and then fell

Crops, Oilseeds

World’s Worst Soybean Disease Hasn’t Arrived Here Yet

By Gord Gilmour February 17, 2011

Soybean cyst nematode is the worst of the lot when it comes to crop diseases that thrive in soybean crops. It infects the roots of soybean and eventually becomes a cyst. It can cause a variety of symptoms including chlorosis of the laves and stems, root necrosis, loss in seed yield and general suppression of

Cereals, Grain Markets, Oilseeds

StatsCan Canola Data Shows Less Supply, More Demand

By Dwayne Klassen February 10, 2011

Canola futures on the ICE Futures Canada trading platform posted some significant advances during the week ended Feb. 4, with new contract highs established in a number of months. Strong domestic processor demand for canola, along with continued strong export interest, helped to stimulate some of the strength. Adding to the upward price momentum were

Cereals, Crops, Oilseeds

Wheat Growing Makes Comeback In Minnesota

By Doug Holen February 10, 2011

Fields of barley, oats, rye, triticale, and winter and spring wheat could be seen from Rochester to Grand Forks until the early 1990s, when they all but disappeared from southern and central Minnesota. What once was old is new again. In the past six to seven years, the University of Minnesota has heard an increasing

News

China Expected To Import More Corn

February 10, 2011

Following its first large purchase of U.S. corn in more than four years in 2010, China may need to import as much as nine million tonnes of corn this year, an official with the U.S. Grains Council said on Feb. 3. “Estimates given to us were that China is short 10 million to 15 million

Cereals, News, Oilseeds

In Brief… – for Feb. 10, 2011

By Reuters February 10, 2011

Demand exceeds production:Global soyoil consumption is likely to rise above production in the current season with Chinese and European demand remaining strong, Hamburg-based oilseeds analysts Oil Worldforecast Feb. 2.Oil World forecasts global Oct. 2010-Sept. 2011 soyoil production at 41.91 million tonnes, below estimated consumption of 41.98 million tonnes. “World consumption of soyoil continues to grow

Cereals, Grain Markets, Oilseeds

Fundamentals Still Lean Toward $700-Per-Tonne Canola

February 3, 2011

Nearby canola futures on the ICE Futures Canada trading platform experienced a minor setback during the week ended Jan. 28 while the more-deferred contracts continued to trek upward. Much of the price weakness in canola was reflective of profit-taking, especially as new highs were established. Declines in Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) soybean and soyoil

News

Bioproducts Become Part Of The Rural Economy

By Ron Friesen January 27, 2011

Mark Myrowich describes his product as a big sandwich, with nets instead of bread and straw instead of meat, rolled up like a carpet and delivered to construction sites for erosion control. This strange-sounding item is one of many the Manitoba government plans to support with $20 million over the next 10 years as part

Daily Network News

Deere forecasts weak annual profit on tariff hit

Prairie Wheat Weekly: Spring prices vary as durum nudges up

Prairie forecast: Winter temperatures moving in

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