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Crop Report – for Apr. 22, 2010

By Manitoba Agriculture April 22, 2010

SOUTHWEST Weather conditions have allowed fields to dry up quickly in the southwest region, permitting some producers to start seeding over the past weekend. Seeding operations are expected to continue into this week. Seeding in the region is approximately one to two weeks earlier than normal. Producers have also been fertilizing winter wheat, fall rye

Crops

Canadian Hemp Acres On The Rise

By Phil Franz-Warkentin April 15, 2010

Canadian farmers are expected to grow more hemp this year. Demand for both the seed and fibre is increasing, and the crop can offer good returns to producers, according to an industry official. “This year there is a lot of optimism in the market,” said Kim Shukla, executive director of the Canadian Hemp Trade Alliance,

Crops

New Market For Hemp Straw, Fibre

By Daniel Winters April 15, 2010

“What I found surprised me. Canada had little hemp-fibre processing capacity.” – ROBERT JIN Plans to build the first hemp fibre-processing plant in North America were announced at a press conference in Gilbert Plains April 6. Work on the $10-million facility, to be built by Plains Industrial Hemp Processing Ltd., will start this summer, according

News, Oilseeds

China Rapeseed Production Falls

April 15, 2010

The most serious drought in decades in China’s southern provinces of Yunnan and Guizhou is expected to cut their rapeseed output by 500,000 tonnes, or about half of last year’s total output, an official think-tank reported on March 23. In 2009, the two areas produced one million tonnes of the oilseed, used to produce edible

Livestock

Drying Corn Can Lock Away Its Feed Energy

By Jim Romahn April 15, 2010

One of the risks involved with using Ontario’s 2009 corn crop for poultry is the amount of drying required. It might have destroyed enzymes, and some protein and energy might be bonded to each other and not available to poultry. That’s according to Dr. Mike Leslie, poultry nutritionist for Masterfeeds, at a producer update meeting

Crops, Oilseeds

Argentine Soybean Crop Gets Bigger

April 8, 2010

“A record oilseed crop will be produced in Argentina this year…” Argentina’s 2010 soybean crop is likely to rise to 53.3 million tonnes from 32 million tonnes in 2009, Hamburg-based oilseeds analysts Oil World forecast on March 30. This was up by 1.3 million tonnes from Oil World’s previous estimate on March 2. It also

Cereals, Grain Markets, Oilseeds

Speculation Reigns Ahead Of U. S. Estimates

By Phil Franz-Warkentin April 1, 2010

For three-times-daily market reports from Resource News International, visit “ICE Futures Canada updates” at www.manitobacooperator.ca ICE Futures Canada canola contracts moved higher during the week ended March 26, although activity was choppy and relatively range-bound. Much of the strength in canola could be seen as a reaction to the weaker Canadian dollar, which was down

Livestock

Prairie Hay To Saudi Arabia?

April 1, 2010

Saudi Arabia’s plan to phase out production of water-intensive crops including animal fodder has opened the doors for multimillion dollar deals with firms in the United States and Canada, traders said Mar. 29. Saudi-based Al-Khumasia Company, plans to launch its $40 million crushing and packaging feed mill in July, Meshaal Al-Wetaid, its assistant general manager

Cereals, Grain Markets, Oilseeds

States’ Soggy Spring Supportive

By Phil Franz-Warkentin March 25, 2010

For three-times-daily market reports from Resource News International, visit “ICE Futures Canada updates” at www.manitobacooperator.ca ICE Futures Canada’s canola futures bounced around during the week ended March 19, setting fresh contract lows in the nearby months before eventually recovering to post modest advances in the most actively traded nearby contracts. However, the new crop months

Crops, Oilseeds

Fertilizer Producers Still See Strong U. S. Spring

By Ernest Scheyder March 25, 2010

Major fertilizer producers still expect a strong U. S. spring planting season, a development that would be a boon for the industry after a lacklustre fall. Wet weather and a very late harvest kept many farmers from putting down fertilizer before snow fell this past fall and winter. That hurt fourth-quarter earnings in the fertilizer

Daily Network News

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Canadian alpacas impress American judge at Agribition

U.S. grains: Chicago grains firm as traders gauge China purchases

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