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Manitoba Forage Seed Grower Joins Anti-Monsanto Legal Action

May 5, 2011

In the age of patent protection, there’s lots of precedent for corporate giants suing farmers – but few farmers willing to take on the corporations. Well, meet Paul Gregory. He is among 60 farmers, producer groups and seed companies suing Monsanto Co. by challenging its patents on genetically modified seed. Gregory, who owns Interlake Forage

Cereals, Crops, Opinion

Advice From A Failing Competitor

April 28, 2011

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

Crops

World Needs Modern Agricultural Technology

By Allan Dawson April 21, 2011

CropLife International executive director Denise Dewar promotes pesticides and genetically modified crops from her Washington, D.C. office, but as a young, idealistic student, she dreamed of saving the world from pesticides. “At that time I was being influenced by the environmentalists’ very negative anti-pesticides environment,” she told the Canada Grains Council’s annual meeting in Winnipeg

Cereals, News, Oilseeds

GM Wheat Is Coming –Eventually

By Allan Dawson April 14, 2011

The need to make more money growing wheat will see genetically modified varieties commercialized in seven to 10 years, according to a leading American wheat organization. “I think this is a matter of when we have GM wheat products in the market, and not so much an if at this point,” Vince Peterson, U.S. Wheat

Crops, Oilseeds

Flax Growers Vote To Scrap Checkoff Cap

By Allan Dawson March 17, 2011

The Manitoba Flax Growers Association (MFGA) wants the $275 cap removed from its farmer checkoff of half a per cent of the value of flax when it’s sold. MFGA members voted in favour of removing the cap at their annual meeting here March 3. The MFGA will ask the Agricultural Producers’ Organization Cer tification Agency

Crops, Oilseeds

Non-GM Glyphosate-Tolerant Flax Being Developed

March 10, 2011

Glyphosate-tolerant flax that hasn’t been “genetically modified” (GM) could be on the market by 2014, according to James A. Radtke, vice-president of product development for Cibus, an American plant trait development company. If the $6-million project between Cibus, the Flax Council of Canada, and Agriculture and Agri- Food Canada is a success, Canadian flax growers

Crops, Forages

Manitoba Growers Edgy About GM Alfalfa Release In U.S.

By Ron Friesen February 3, 2011

Manitoba forage seed producers are dismayed, but not surprised that American regulators have released Roundup Ready alfalfa in the U.S. without restrictions. “Whoever thought that Roundup Ready wasn’t going to come to the market was living in a dream world,” said Adam Gregory, an alfalfa seed producer from Fisher Branch. The U.S. Department of Agriculture

Cereals, Crops, News

DUC, Bayer, Support Winter Wheat Research

By Daniel Winters January 20, 2011

Canada’s top winter wheat breeder has been awarded a $600,000 grant to continue his work – even though he’s winding down his breeding program. But University of Saskatchewan plant scientist Brian Fowler says new winter wheat cultivars from his breeding program will continue to appear for years to come. For example, a new cultivar named

Crops, Forages

Roundup Ready Alfalfa Nears Approval In U.S.

By Ron Friesen January 20, 2011

The American government is imminently expected to approve the commercial release of Roundup Ready alfalfa in the U.S. – a move which deeply worries Manitoba forage seed producers. Growers fear it’s just a matter of time before genes from the GM variety enter Canada, cross-contaminate non-GM alfalfa and wreck forage seed sales to Europe, which

Opinion

Letters – for Dec. 16, 2010

December 16, 2010

“Silent” purchasing public speaks up Just a quick comment on the 10,000-plus signatures submitted by the Winnipeg Humane Society to Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives. I’ve seen several comments over the months on polls and surveys from various producer groups that say that it is only special-interest animal-welfare groups that really care about change.

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: CME cattle futures higher on year-end positioning

U.S. grains: Soybean futures fall, shrugging off China purchases

Growing pains: An Ontario city’s urban agriculture efforts show good policy requires real capacity

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