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Cereals, Crops, Oilseeds

Soybean Acres Poised To Jump In 2011

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Brace yourself for a possible big leap in Manitoba soybean acres in 2011. Soybean plantings could jump by 40 per cent or more this year, following a record crop in 2010 despite adverse growing conditions, producers at St. Jean Farm Days were told. Strong prices and the arrival of new varieties are fuelling the potential
Cereals, News

In Brief… – for Nov. 18, 2010

Faster loading:Paterson GlobalFoods has announced construction of a new terminal in Gleichen, which it says will be the fastest-loading facility in Western Canada. The 28,000-tonne “Long Plain Terminal” will include the first grain loop track in Canada. It is designed to allow locomotives to remain connected to a train, providing for continuous and timely loading
Crops, Oilseeds

Monsanto Encourages U.S. Farmers To Use Additional Herbicides

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Monsanto will pay American farmers to use at least one herbicide in addition to glyphosate on Roundup Ready soybeans next year. It seems odd to promote a competitor’s product, but it’s part of Monsanto’s effort to prevent more weeds becoming resistant to glyphosate, Monsanto spokeswoman Janice Person said in an interview from St. Louis, Nov.
Crops, Oilseeds

Monsanto Drops Shared-Risk Program After 11 Seasons

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Monsanto’s sharedrisk program, which over the last 11 seasons refunded almost $40 million to western Canadian canola growers who lost Roundup Ready canola crops early in the growing season, has been scrapped. “The long and short of it, even though the grower wouldn’t see this, the cost of the program obviously outweighed the benefits,” said
Crops, Oilseeds

Dow AgroSciences Pumped About Its Pipeline

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Dow AgroSciences has taken Albert Einstein’s observation – “in the middle of difficulty lies opportunity” – to heart. Dow AgroSciences is pumped about the products it is developing to meeting growing world food demands from finite resources amidst a changing climate. There are 6.8 billion mouths to feed now; by 2050 there will be 9.3
Crops, Oilseeds

KAP Looking Into TUAs On Volunteer Canola Crops – for Aug. 12, 2010

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Should canola seed companies give farmers unable to seed wet fields this spring a break and forgo their contracts fees on volunteer crops? The Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP) is asking itself that question. Butch Harder, a Lowe Farm-area farmer and director of the Manitoba Canola Growers Association (MCGA), raised the issue here July 22 during
Crops, Oilseeds

KAP Looking Into TUAs On Volunteer Canola Crops – for Aug. 12, 2010

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Should canola seed companies give farmers unable to seed wet fields this spring a break and forgo their contracts fees on volunteer crops? The Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP) is asking itself that question. Butch Harder, a Lowe Farm-area farmer and director of the Manitoba Canola Growers Association (MCGA), raised the issue here July 22 during
Crops, Oilseeds

Blackleg Is Widespread – for Aug. 5, 2010

The Canola Council of Canada’s latest Canola Watch says the insect watch has entered a critical phase. There has been spraying for lygus, bertha army worm and diamondback moth larvae in some regions. The report said blackleg is widespread in southern Manitoba. Disease severity on infected plants is still low right now, but severity can
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Weed Control Will Never Be Simple Again – for Jul. 29, 2010

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Sid Fogg, a mixed grain and cotton farmer near the Arkansas-Tennessee border, said by the time he realized the patches of pigweed (Palmer amaranth) growing in his field were resistant, they had spread out of control. He tried using a higher rate of glyphosate, but it had no effect. So he switched to another herbicide,

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