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Cereals, Crops, International news, News

Dry Australia cuts wheat forecast

September 22, 2012

sydney / reuters / Australia has cut its forecast for wheat production in the 2012-13 crop-marketing year by about seven per cent from its previous forecast to 22.5 million tonnes. And it’s warning yields may fall further if rains don’t arrive soon in some areas. Australia had a record 29.5-million-tonne wheat harvest last year, but

Beef cattle, Opinion

Beef sector needs a better marketing strategy if it is to meet its export potential

September 22, 2012

(CAPI) Canada’s beef sector needs a robust, long-term strategy – and a sustained commitment to execute the strategy – if it wishes to secure its place as a competitive force in domestic and global markets. For this report, the Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute (CAPI) undertook a comprehensive study of Canada’s beef sector. The feedback indicates

Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets, Oilseeds

Prairie weather not done with markets just yet

By Phil Franz-Warkentin September 22, 2012

ICE Futures Canada canola contracts posted solid gains during the week ended Sept. 14, as production concerns in parts of the Prairies, and expectations that supplies may not be enough to meet the demand going forward, provided support. Canola ended the week with new contract highs in many months, and the bullish technical signals could

Cereals, Crops, International news, News, Oilseeds

Food price shocks a serious threat, UN says

By Reuters September 22, 2012

World leaders must take swift, co-ordinated action to ensure that food price shocks do not turn into a catastrophe that could hurt tens of millions of people in coming months, the United Nations’ food agencies said in a statement on Sept. 4. Global alarm over the potential for a food crisis of the kind seen

Crops, News

Biggest U.S. farm lender says it will stand by drought-hit customers

By Christine Stebbins September 22, 2012

Reuters – The Farm Credit System, the largest single lender to U.S. agriculture, said on Sept. 12 it would meet the borrowing needs of rural America and stand by its customers challenged by the worst drought in more than half a century. “The Farm Credit System remains well positioned to meet the borrowing needs of

Cereals, Crops

Harvest most popular CWRS wheat in Manitoba

By Allan Dawson September 22, 2012

The high-yielding, fusarium-susceptible variety captured the highest percentage of provincial acres this year, but newcomer Carberry is rising with a bullet

Just like the classic Neil Young album of the same name, Harvest is topping the charts. In this case, it’s the Canada Western Red Spring acreage chart in Manitoba. “It’s been quietly beavering away out there with not too many people paying attention,” said Stephen Fox, the Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada scientist who bred the

Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets, News, Oilseeds

U.S. drought lifts PRO values

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff September 22, 2012

Values in CWB’s 2012-13 harvest pool return outlook (PRO) have risen on the expected demand for Canada’s wheat, barley and canola in the wake of the U.S. Corn Belt’s drought. CWB’s second round of new-crop PROs, issued Sept. 14, sees wheat and durum values up by $11 per tonne, malting barley up $10 and canola

Crops, News, Oilseeds

USDA says drought losses not as bad as first feared

September 22, 2012

washington / reuters / The searing U.S. drought has done less damage than feared to the nation’s corn crop, and worldwide supplies of wheat, corn and soybeans are fairly stable despite harsh weather in North America and Europe, according to the USDA. The U.S. corn crop would be the smallest in six years and the

International news, News

Land battles inflame Kenya

September 22, 2012

nairobi / reuters / A government minister has pleaded innocent to charges of inciting violence in which over 100 people have been shot, hacked and burnt to death in strife over land and water in Kenya’s coastal region. The scale and sudden intensity of the unrest over the past month has led many Kenyans to

Cereals, Crops, Forages, Oilseeds

Harvest continues, but it’s getting dry out there

By Manitoba Agriculture September 22, 2012

Weekly Provincial Summary Warm, dry conditions across most of Manitoba allowed for excellent harvest progress. Most areas of Manitoba reported frost events throughout the week; few reports of crop damage were received. The exception is the Interlake Region where some acres were impacted and crop assessments are underway. Strong winds in some areas of Manitoba

Daily Network News

Russian grain ship believed sunk in Ukrainian drone attack found, towed to shore, TASS says

Striking JBS workers to return to Colorado plant on promise of talks

Canadian finance minister talks supply chain integrity, pork tariffs with Chinese vice premier

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Dry Australia cuts wheat forecast

Beef sector needs a better marketing strategy if it is to meet its export potential

Prairie weather not done with markets just yet

Food price shocks a serious threat, UN says

Biggest U.S. farm lender says it will stand by drought-hit customers

Harvest most popular CWRS wheat in Manitoba

U.S. drought lifts PRO values

USDA says drought losses not as bad as first feared

Land battles inflame Kenya

Harvest continues, but it’s getting dry out there

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