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Preparing Food On A Budget

By Connie Burns March 25, 2010

Here are some tips to help you save on the family food budget: When making a meal, make extra amounts of the starch, protein source (meat/dry beans) or veggie and freeze these for later use. For example, while cooking rice for to-night’s stir-fry, cook up extra rice to be frozen for a soup later in

Crops

Agriculture Can Meet Long-Term Food Demand

By Gus Trompiz March 25, 2010

Agriculture has the scope to meet soaring global demand for food by exploiting potential for higher yields and expanded farmland in certain regions, a Societe Generale analyst told Reuters March 18. Achieving large gains in farm output would however take several years and this time lag could bring renewed tensions in food supply in the

Cereals, Crops, News

U. S. Wheat Exports To Fade As Russia Flexes Muscle

By Karl Plume March 25, 2010

“(Russia is) essentially taking bushel for bushel market share away from the U. S. while we are focused on burning our food (as biofuel).” – BILL LAPP, ADVANCED ECONOMIC SOLUTIONS U. S. wheat production and slumping exports will continue to fade in coming years due to increasing competition in the global marketplace from lower-cost producers

Cereals, Crops

Outgoing Director Cites Single-Desk Advantages

By Daniel Winters March 25, 2010

“They are still in a position where their ability to put legislation through on the wheat board is doubtful, but I don’t have any illusions that if they were in a majority situation they would move pretty swiftly on their commitments.” – BILL NICHOLSON Outgoing Canadian Wheat Board director Bill Nicholson predicts that the Conservatives

Beef cattle, Livestock

U. S. Cattle Herd Smallest In Seven Years

By Bob Burgdorfer March 25, 2010

The U. S. feedlot cattle supply is the smallest in seven years, the U. S. Agriculture Department reported March 19, confirming trade forecasts. Contraction of the U. S. cattle herd has helped lift cattle prices to their highest level since late 2008. The cattle supply has decreased because producers have lost money for nearly two

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

Livestock, Other livestock

Menu Foods Considers “For Sale” Sign

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff March 25, 2010

Toronto-based pet food maker Menu Foods is considering putting some or all of itself up for sale as the finale to its recovery. The income fund announced March 16 it’s retained BMO Capital Markets as its adviser in “evaluating alternatives to maximize unit-holder value,” which could include “a sale of all or a portion of

Cereals, News, Oilseeds

Atamanenko Proposal To Expand GE Crop Review Stalled

By Alex Binkley March 25, 2010

A proposal by NDP Agricultural Critic Alex Atamanenko to expand the assessment of new GE crop varieties to include their export market acceptability was stalled in the Commons March 17. He likely won’t learn the fate of his private member’s bill for some time, but Conservative MPs seem determined to talk it out when it

Cereals, News

CWB To Hustle Grain Out Of Red River Valley

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff March 25, 2010

With overland flooding again expected in the southern portion of Manitoba’s Red River Valley, the Canadian Wheat Board plans to make room at area elevators for affected farmers to bring in their accepted grain now. The CWB said March 12 it would put a program in place to help farmers who may have grain at

Cereals, Crops, Oilseeds

Canola And Peas “Love” Each Other

By Daniel Winters March 25, 2010

Results from intercropping trials are showing that planting two crops together offers higher yields than monocultures. It’s old hat for organic farmers, who have been seeding cover and relay crops since the days when Grandpa seeded peas and oats together, harvested them with a horse-drawn binder, and pitched the sheaves off a hayrack to his

Daily Network News

Moroccan fertilizer maker OCP expects output to drop 30 per cent in Q2, sources say

Feed Grain Weekly: Demand rises despite war uncertainty

How farmers can manage stress, anxiety during spring seeding

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