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Watch For Mycotoxins In This Season’s Grain

November 25, 2010

Bernie Peet is president of Pork Chain Consulting Ltd. of Lacombe, Alber ta, and editor of Western Hog Journal. His columns will run every second week in the Manitoba Co-operator. This year’s cool, wet weather not only delayed harvest, but also produced higher-than-normal incidence of fusarium mould in grain. Producers are being warned that high

Cereals, Crops, News, Pulses

A – for Nov. 25, 2010

By Rod Nickel November 25, 2010

price spike in grains will reverse some acreage gains by legumes in Western Canada next year, but over the long term, the shift to crops like lentils will persist, a leading legume exporter says. Rising demand for protein in developing countries underpins the outlook for legumes, as for grains and fertilizer. But lentils, chickpeas and

Cereals, Oilseeds, Opinion, Pulses

Grain-Grading Pain

By Kevin Hursh November 11, 2010

It’s a difficult year to be a grain buyer. Due to bleaching, sprouting, disease and frost, grades are all over the map and a lot of the grading factors are open to human interpretation. The grading standards sound objective. For instance, No. 1 canola may contain up to two per cent distinctly green seeds and

Grain Markets

Grain And Oilseed Ending Stocks Down

By Dwayne Klassen October 28, 2010

Ending stocks of Canada’s grain and oilseed crops at the termination of the 2010-11 crop year will be slightly lower than what was projected in late August and well below the level forecast for 2009-10, according to updated supply and demand tables from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s market analysis division released on Oct. 15. Ending

Crops, Oilseeds

Deadline Extended For Harvest Samples

By Canadian Grain Commission October 21, 2010

Due to this year’s delayed harvest, the Canadian Grain Commission is extending its deadline for the Harvest Sample Program to Dec. 1, from Nov. 1. “This year, the weather was a challenge for producers across Canada. An extra four weeks gives producers time to send their samples and get a free grade despite a late

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

News

Noxious Weed Or Crop Of The Future? – for Jul. 29, 2010

By Laura Rance-Unger July 29, 2010

If he wasn’t so busy trying to help farmers snuff it out, University of Arkansas weed scientist Ken Smith says he would be studying Palmer amaranth out of pure interest. Some of the very things that make amaranth – known as pigweed – such a formidable weed also flag its potential as a food crop.

Cereals, Opinion

Demand A Costing Review Of Railway Grain Transportation

By Ron Bonnett July 1, 2010

Disbelief. Followed by frustration and, we hope, the desire to do something about it. That is response many western grain farmers are likely to feel upon receiving news that they may have greatly overpaid the railway companies to ship their product. Railway earnings for handling grain are the focus of a new study by respected

Cereals, Oilseeds, Opinion

CWB voter eligibility changes justified

June 3, 2010

We welcome readers’comments on issues that have been covered in the Manitoba Co-operator. In most cases we cannot accept “open” letters or copies of letters which have been sent to several publications. Letters are subject to editing for length or taste. We suggest a maximum of about 300 words. When your Conservative government introduced legislation

Grain Markets

Distillers Grains Making Inroads In Feed Market

By Michael Hirtzer May 20, 2010

– Daniel O’Brien “The question is, how much distillers grain is being used? The answer is, Every bit of it.” U. S. livestock and poultry producers will boost use of distillers grains during the next five years and decrease the amount of corn they feed their animals, an agriculture economist said May 12 at a

Daily Network News

JBS profit falls amid still-challenging US market environment

U.S. grains: Soy hits 17-month high, corn to four-month top as trade braces for U.S. data

Federal budget shows remaining disconnect between agriculture, policymakers, panelists say

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