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Canada Crop Stockpiles Shrink After Smaller Crops

By Rod Nickel February 10, 2011

Stockpiles of wheat and canola in Canada, a leading exporter, shrank slightly more than expected at Dec. 31 from a year earlier due to smaller crops, Statistics Canada said Feb. 4, underscoring tight global supplies that have pushed up food prices and sparked protests. Stocks of all wheat in grain bins and country elevators were

Cereals, News

Food Costs At Records, UN Warns Of Volatile Era

By Svetlana Kovalyova February 10, 2011

Record-high global food prices showed no sign of relenting following a rash of catastrophic weather, highlighted by a major U.S. snowstorm and a cyclone in Australia, which could put yet more pressure on prices and spark further unrest around the world. The closely watched UN Food and Agriculture Organization Food Price Index touched its highest

Cereals, Crops

Growers Favour Barley Over Wheat

By Brent Harder February 10, 2011

With wheat showi ng strong returns across Western Canada, it appears producers are showing more interest in wheat than barley “Wheat is garnering a significant portion of the acre increase, barley a little less so at the moment,” said Bruce Burnett, director of weather and market analysis with the Canadian Wheat Board in Winnipeg. Bill

Cereals, Crops

CGC Tracking Shifts In Fusarium Head Blight

By Allan Dawson February 10, 2011

Toxin levels in fusariuminfected Manitoba wheat have been increasing rapidly relative to the number of fusarium-damaged kernels (FDK). But this crop year, the levels of the toxin DON (deoxynivalenol) are closer to the old one-to-one ratio with FDK, says Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) agronomist Mike Grenier. “The DON levels aren’t as high (relative to FDK)

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

Crops, Forages

USDA Partially Deregulating Biotech Sugar Beets

By Carey Gillam February 10, 2011

U.S. agricultural regulators Feb. 4 said despite a court ban, they would allow commercial planting of genetically modified sugar beets under closely controlled conditions while they complete a full environmental impact statement. The move marks the second-such boost by the United States for contested biotech crops in a week, and underscores U.S. determination to expand

Cereals, Crops, Oilseeds

More Canola Acres Expected

By Dwayne Klassen February 10, 2011

Agriculture and Agri- Food Canada is expecting the area seeded by Canadian farmers to canola in the spring of 2011 will be up from the level seen at the same time in 2010, according to its first acreage outlook released Jan. 28. The market analysis branch of Agriculture Canada cautioned, however, that the actual area

Country Crossroads

For The Love Of Chocolate

By Lorraine Stevenson February 10, 2011

With Valentine’s Day just four days from now, you can’t go anywhere without seeing the association between chocolate and love. How did a mid-winter celebration of love from the Middle Ages become linked with a New World food ingredient? It happened over a period of centuries as Europeans familiarized with the South American drink so

Beef cattle, Livestock

Beef Plant Gains Russia Access

February 10, 2011

Russia has allowed beef imports from Cargill’s plant in Guelph, Ontario, as the world’s No. 2 beef importer gradually lifts restrictions it has had in place on Canadian plants since a 2003 discovery of BSE, or mad cow disease in Western Canada. Access to Russia will mean an additional $2 million in annual sales for

Beef cattle, Hogs, Livestock

Meat Council Supports Border Deal

February 10, 2011

The Canadian Meat Council says it supports the recently announced shared vision for perimeter security and economic competitiveness between Canada and the U.S. “We have a long history of working very closely with our colleagues from the United States. Our industry is truly a North American one with many of our members operating farms and

Daily Network News

Canadian aquaculture should be classed as agriculture, industry groups say

CBOT Weekly: April supply and demand report a ‘nothing burger’

Canada blocks meats, dairy from Greece over foot-and-mouth disease

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