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Arborg Farmer Developing Rice Of The Prairies With Oat Variety

By Lorraine Stevenson April 2, 2009

“People are going to say ‘what is it?’ That’s going to be the biggest hurdle.” Hulless oats are good feed for pigs and poultry. They help racehorses run better too. But do they taste good? The pig, chicken or horse will never tell, but judges at a food competition later this month might. They’ll be

News, Oilseeds

Argentine Farmers End Strike, Vow To Fight Soy Tax

By Nicolas Misculin April 2, 2009

Argentine farmers wrapped up a week-long strike March 27, vowing to lobby Congress to cut the soy export taxes that have fuelled a bitter year-long conflict with the government. Farmers in the agricultural powerhouse halted sales of soybeans, other crops and livestock for seven days, bringing local grains and cattle markets to a standstill and

Forages, Livestock, News

Index – for Apr. 2, 2009

April 2, 2009

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News, Oilseeds

EU New Market For Canada Canola

By Rod Nickel March 26, 2009

Europe’s acceptance of genetically modified canola seed represents an important new market for Canadian farmers, but purchases from the world’s largest exporter of canola seed are unlikely any time soon. The European Commission ruled March 10 to allow import of a type of canola, which German seed developer Bayer CropScience created by modifying the canola

News, Oilseeds

Biggest Brazil Soy State Loses Taste For GMO Seed

By Inae Riveras March 26, 2009

Farmers in Brazil’s Mato Grosso, the country’s top soy state, are shunning once-heralded, genetically modified soy varieties in favour of conventional seeds after the hi-tech type showed poor yields. “We’re seeing less and less planting of GMO soy around here. It doesn’t give consistent performance,” said Jeferson Bif, who grows soy and corn on a

Opinion

Feed millers go above and beyond safety regs

March 26, 2009

The March 12 Manitoba Co-operator features an article in which Richard Holley of the University of Manitoba suggests that there are insufficient regulatory and manufacturing controls in Canada to prevent the widespread inclusion of pathogens in animal feed (“Stop recycling pathogens in animal feed,” March 12, page 27). He is quoted as saying that “there’s

News, Oilseeds

Japan To Double Non-GM Soy Reserve

March 26, 2009

Japan will spend $3 million to double reserves of non-genetically modified soybeans to 7,200 tonnes in the year starting in April, the Ministry of Agriculture said March 17. The ministry’s increased purchase of more costly non-GM soybean for usage in traditional food such as tofu means its spending would rise to 291 million yen ($2.96

Cereals, Grain Markets, Oilseeds

U. S. Creates Over $1 Trillion, Sends Markets Higher

By Don Bousquet March 26, 2009

For three-times-daily market reports from Don Bousquet and RNI, visit “ICE Futures Canada updates” at www.manitobacooperator.ca Grain and oilseed futures at ICE Futures Canada in Winnipeg c losed the week ended March 20 higher, with strength in the Chicago markets giving good support to prices. Canola was boosted by a disciplined slow approach to farmer

Livestock

U. S. To Delay Stricter BSE Feed Ban For 60 Days

March 26, 2009

The Food and Drug Administration will delay for 60 days a stricter rule on livestock feed ingredients aimed at preventing BSE, an agency spokeswoman said March 18. The rule was scheduled to take effect on April 27. The spokeswoman said the delay would allow “a little more time” for compliance. When the rule was unveiled

Livestock, News

Correction

March 19, 2009

John Kellar, the former associate director for animal disease control at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, is not a codefendant in the BSE-related class-action lawsuit filed by Niagara Falls cattle producer Bill Sauer (“BSE-affected producers get their day in court,” Co-operator, March 12, page 33). The class action’s particulars allege Kellar committed “misfeasance in public office,”

Daily Network News

Feed Grains Weekly: Good export demand pushing up domestic prices

Beef DNA testing now available in Canada

Domestic abuse survivors may need extra support when livestock is involved, experts say

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Arborg Farmer Developing Rice Of The Prairies With Oat Variety

Argentine Farmers End Strike, Vow To Fight Soy Tax

Index – for Apr. 2, 2009

EU New Market For Canada Canola

Biggest Brazil Soy State Loses Taste For GMO Seed

Feed millers go above and beyond safety regs

Japan To Double Non-GM Soy Reserve

U. S. Creates Over $1 Trillion, Sends Markets Higher

U. S. To Delay Stricter BSE Feed Ban For 60 Days

Correction

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