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U. S. Grain Elevators Brace For Huge Harvest – for Sep. 16, 2010

By Christine Stebbins September 16, 2010

U. S. grain handlers, already burdened with big wheat inventories, are bracing for a mammoth corn and soybean harvest across America’s heartland. Merchants will have to find room for 17 billion bushels of corn and soybeans – the largest U. S. harvest in history. A recent spike in U. S. exports after drought-stricken Russia announced

News

In Brief… – for Aug. 5, 2010

By Reuters August 5, 2010

Drought cuts production: Russia may harvest less than 80 million tonnes of grain this year as severe drought has hit many key grain-growing regions, Deputy Economy Minister Andrei Klepach said July 26. “(The) previous official grain crop forecast was 80 million to 85 million tonnes. Now we believe the outcome of the year may be

Cereals, News, Oilseeds

In Brief… – for Jul. 29, 2010

By Reuters July 29, 2010

Soybean breeder honoured: Veteran Ontario soybean breeder Norman Bradner was awarded the 2010 Canadian Plant Breeding and Genetics award at the recent Canadian Seed Trade Association annual meeting in Kelowna. The award is peer nominated and selected recognition of an outstanding contribution to the advancement of plant agriculture. In addition to being a prolific varietal

Opinion

This Is Efficiency?

By Laura Rance-Unger May 20, 2010

We’ve all heard tales of the inefficiencies that have plagued centrally planned economies in far off places. The compounding effects – sluggish supply chains, lower productivity, missed delivery targets and people who could be working standing around with nothing to do – eventually drag the economy so deeply into an abyss, it takes a revolution

Cereals, Crops, News

U. S. Wheat Farmers Struggle With Low-Protein Crop

By Julie Ingwersen September 24, 2009

Farmers in the northern U. S. Plains are harvesting a bin-busting spring wheat crop, but much of it has a lower-than-normal protein content, which lowers its value, industry experts said. “We have one of the lowest average protein contents that we’ve had in the spring wheat crop in years,” said Mike Krueger, president of the

Country Crossroads

Railway Gone, But Station Lives On

By Allan Dawson September 17, 2009

The grain elevator and the railway are gone, but the railway station, which is now a museum and national historic site, still stands in this farming community 120 years after it was built. With the help of a $9,000 grant from the federal government and the ongoing efforts of the Miami Railway Station Museum Association,

Hogs, News

Agriculture Hall Of Fame – for Aug. 20, 2009

August 20, 2009

John Murray Cormack was born and raised on a family farm at Rossburn, Manitoba. He obtained a BSA from the University of Manitoba, an MSc from the University of Nebraska and a PhD from Iowa State University. Murray and Cather ine (nee Crookshank) raised four sons: Ron, Ken, Neil and David. From 1957 to 1959,

News

Manitoba’s Ag Museum Opens Rural Transportation Display

By Allan Dawson June 4, 2009

Agriculture built modern Manitoba, but it was transportation – moving settlers in and their grain out – that allowed it to happen. That part of the province’s history is now on display at the Manitoba Agricultural Museum through a new exhibit that explores the evolution of transportation and its economic, social and political impact on

Cereals, Opinion

Letters – for May. 14, 2009

May 14, 2009

Open market would not change wheat acreage Would wheat acreage in Western Canada really soar if there were an open market for Prairie wheat? The Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association (WCWGA) says so, and points to Ontario as evidence. In fact, the general upward trend in Ontario’s wheat acreage began decades before the end of

Opinion

Viterra Strategy Short-Sighted

May 14, 2009

We sympathize with the community of Arborg and commend its attempt to save that great facility, the grain elevator. From every angle its demolition is a shame. For what benefits the farmer usually has a ripple effect right back up to the top, in this case Viterra. Fortunately not all multinationals

Daily Network News

Canada’s inflation in October eases to 2.2 per cent on lower gasoline, food prices

U.S. livestock: Cattle, hog futures rise on first WASDE since September

U.S. export sales include only small soybean business to China

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