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Cereals, Crops

Durum Displaces Barley In Feed Rations

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Feed barley values in the Lethbridge region have moved lower over the past few weeks, but are now stabilizing as farmer selling backs away. In an interview Feb. 19, Jim Beusekom, a Lethbridgebased feed grains broker with Market Place Commodities Ltd., said feed barley prices have stabilized at the bottom end of their trading range,
News, Oilseeds

Harvest Problems With Argentine Soy

Heavy rain last week in Argentina improved the condition of some 2009-10 soybeans, but flooded fields mean other crops will be lost, the Agriculture Ministry said in a crop report Feb. 19. Argentina is the world’s No. 3 soy exporter and the top global supplier of its oil and meal. The Buenos Aires Grains Exchange
Livestock, News

China Cracks Down On Feed Additives

China will require tighter controls over animal feed and feed additives after widespread cases of illegal feed additives have led to human poisonings in the last few years. A new regulation would require producers of animal feed and feed additives to renew their licences every five years and set up quality control facilities, according to
Crops, Forages, Livestock

Rich Horse Owners Want Only The Best

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They may have enviable riding weather in the Deep South, but it’s no place to try and put up hay. In Kentucky, home of the famed derby, they get 46 inches of rain in an average year. And in Florida, where horse racing and stud farms are a big industry, it rains a little nearly
Livestock, Oilseeds

Expect More U. S.-China Farm Trade Tension

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Chinese farm exports are set to become a greater source of trade tension as China boosts its production and becomes a bigger player in world markets for labor-intensive crops, a U. S. agricultural economist said Feb. 19. Importers around the globe have already launched more than 30 farm trade cases against China in recent years,
News, Oilseeds

Harvest Of Large Brazil Soy Crop Slowed By Rain

Brazilian soy farmers have gathered about 18 per cent of the 2009-10 crop, analysts Celeres said on Monday, Feb. 22, more than usual due to an early harvest, but less than hoped for because of delays caused by heavy rains. “The harvest is advancing, but at a slower pace than hoped due to the greater
Crops, Forages, Opinion

Catering To Affluence

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We often fail to recognize just how rich and spoiled we’ve become. The upward affluence trajectory, happening in much of the world, is having a profound impact on what people want from agriculture. Futurist Lowell Catlett from New Mexico State University recently told the Managing Excellence in Agriculture conference in Saskatoon, that recessions happen from
Cereals, News

Ethanol Byproduct Cuts Into Barley Bids

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Imported Dried Distillers Grains with Solubles (DDGS) is increasingly displacing barley in the western Canadian feedlot sector, industry sources say. The loss in barley’s cash value was seen continuing given that DDGS have now become part of a scheduled program by the feedlot industry. “The need to cover barley needs by end-users has been slowing
Cereals, Grain Markets, Oilseeds

The Year Of The Tiger

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For three-times-daily market reports from Resource News International, visit “ICE Futures Canada updates” at www.manitobacooperator.ca Editor’s note: Don Bousquet’s “It’s Your Business” column is not available this week. ICE Futures Canada’s canola contracts trended higher for most of the week ended Feb. 12, before dropping on Friday to end slightly lower. Profit-taking ahead of the
Crops, Oilseeds

Manitoba Soybean Plantings Look Strong For 2010

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“The weather won’t scare guys off.” – dennis lange, parent seeds Volat i le markets and a near crop disaster last fall are unlikely to dampen Manitoba farmers’ enthusiasm for soybeans this year. Manitoba’s 2010 soybean acreage could be similar to the record area planted in 2009, industry officials predict. Soybean growers barely managed to

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