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Cereals, Crops, Pulses

Canadian Pulse Acres To Increase

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Western Canadian farmers will plant more peas, lentils and chickpeas in 2010, said an analyst with Informa Economics Canada in a presentation at the Canadian Wheat Board’s annual Grain World conference in Winnipeg, Feb. 22. While new-crop lentil bids are well below the levels seen over the past year, the crop still offers some of
Crops

Potato Market Outlook: Bad, Better, Then Outstanding

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A bear. Then two bulls. That’s how Idaho-based potato economist Joe Guenther sees the North American potato market shaping up in the short, medium and long term. It’s the current crop that’s still in the storage he’s most bearish on, Guenther told the recent Manitoba Potato Days meeting. Last year’s spud acres rose about one
Crops

New Strains Raise Long-Term Blight Risk

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Until the mid-1990s, Canadian potato growers’ late blight concerns were limited to a single genotype – the US-1 variant – and it was sensitive to the relatively cheap and widely available fungicide Ridomil, says AAFC plant pathologist Rick Peters. “That changed in 1994, with an influx of new strains,” says Peters. Suddenly growers found themselves
Crops

Proper Storage Takes Planning

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Apotato storage is a home, not a hospital.” That was the central theme of potato storage specialist Duane “Sarge” Preston’s recent presentation at Manitoba Potato Days. Preston, a now-retired extension specialist, told growers that getting conditions right before, during and just following harvest would trump anything they could do once the crop was put up
Crops

Wireworm Control A Looming Problem

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Wireworm control could become a troublesome issue for Canadian potato growers in the next couple of years, says a research scientist from AAFC’s Agassiz Research Centre in British Columbia. But Bob Vernon told the recent Manitoba Potato Days meeting that the best control tool on the market is about to disappear, which could leave Canadian
Crops

Shareholders Pressure Companies For Change

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“I think all agriculture products are going to face this challenge, not just potatoes.” – YVES LECLERC It all began with a filing at the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission. A group of unlikely McDonald’s Restaurant shareholders – including a college investment fund, an ethical investment adviser and a labour group registered a “shareholders’
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Bt Corn Growers Must Comply

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Canada’s corn growers are “slipping significantly” in following the requirements for a non-Bt refuge when planting Bt corn, a pest management stakeholders’ group says. The Canadian Corn Pest Coalition, which includes academics, extension and research staff, regulators, corn growers’ associations and the seed industry, warned last week that refuge compliance dropped to 61 per cent
Dairy cattle, Forages, Livestock

Moo-Re Fibre Please, Say Cows

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“Our concern is that in dairy rations, we have been feeding things that are too rich.” – DAN UNDERSANDER Everyone talks about the benefits of sowing alfalfa to boost pasture yields. But what about the upside to putting grass in a cow’s rumen? According to Dan Undersander, a forage agronomist from the University of Wisconsin,
Cereals, Opinion

Peak On Shaky Ground

JOHN MORRISS EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Apologies to anyone in the group who may think otherwise, but it’s probably fair to say that most of the people attending the recent Growing Local conference in Winnipeg would be favourable to the idea of collective marketing. They would tend to support measures to counterbalance the influence of large food-processing
Cereals, Livestock

U. S. Hog Prices Improving, But Not In Canada

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U. S. hog prices are expected to show some improvement over the next year, but that strength won’t be felt in Canada where foreign exchange rates will continue to hamper the industry, said market analyst Steve Dziver, of Phoenix Agri-Tec Inc. in a presentation at the Canadian Wheat Board’s annual Grain World conference in Winnipeg,

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