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Canadian grain farmers enjoying good times

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It’s a great time to be a farmer in Western Canada, but don’t expect the good times to last forever, grain industry officials said during the Fields on Wheels conference in Winnipeg Nov. 9. “This is truly a time of opportunity,” said Richard Wansbutter, Viterra’s vice-president of government and commercial relations. “I really think these
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The cross with ancient species is considered a first

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Reuters / Scientists in Australia have crossed a popular, commercial variety of wheat with an ancient species, producing a hardy, high-yielding plant that is tolerant of salty soil. The researchers, who published their work March 12 in the journal Nature Biotechnology, hope the new strain will help address food shortages in arid and semi-arid places
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France Kicks Off Wheat Research Group

Wheat researchers gathered in Paris Sept. 15 to launch a global research program in what G20 president France says will support efforts to feed a growing world population. France hopes the initiative will select priority research areas by next year, but support for the initiative is uncertain, with only 10 countries signed up so far
Cereals, Crops, Opinion

Advice From A Failing Competitor

As noted in this space April 14, Vince Peterson, vice-president of U.S. Wheat Associates, was recently in Winnipeg to say that genetically modified wheat is inevitable. The theory is that higher yields are needed for a hungry world, and to make wheat competitive with corn and soybeans. USWA wants all exporters to agree to simultaneous
Cereals, Crops, Opinion

A Boost For Wheat Research

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It’s nice to see headlines about the need for more investment into wheat research these days, even if some of the stories swirling around that topic are a mite confused. Last week started with news reports in mainstream dailies across Canada citing a leaked memo from the National Research Council and reporting that genetically modified
Cereals, Crops

Monsanto Monitoring Attitudes On GM Wheat

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The roadblock to rolling out genetically modified wheat isn’t consumer resistance in Europe or Japan, it’s ambivalence among Canadian farmers, according to Monsanto Canada president Derek Penner. “My attitude is there hasn’t been much shift towards GMO wheat (in Canada),” Penner told reporters Nov. 23 at the opening of Monsanto’s new Canada Breeding Centre at
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Monsanto Sees “Right Time” For GMO Wheat Varieties

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Monsanto Co. could start field testing genetically modified wheat within one to two years, but remains cautious about future commercialization, according to one of the company’s top wheat technology executives. Six years after shelving a biotech wheat product in the face of stiff market resistance, Monsanto still sees a need for circumspection, but believes building
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Syngenta Invests In Canadian Wheat – for Sep. 2, 2010

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Syngenta, one of the world’s biggest seed and pesticide companies, is stepping up its commitment to developing new wheat varieties for Western Canada. Syngenta Canada announced July 27 it had appointed Jim Bagshaw as national seed-marketing manager for cereals, a newly created position. “Globally, Syngenta has always been a world leader in the development of
Cereals, Crops, Opinion

The Russian Bear Is Back

JOHN MORRISS EDITORIAL DIRECTOR The former Soviet Union may not have been a model of economic efficiency, but there was one thing that it did very well, and that was import grain. In the grain trade heyday of the 1980s, the Soviets would import up to 50 million tonnes a year and distribute it far

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