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Roundup Ready Alfalfa Nears Approval In U.S.

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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
News, Oilseeds

GM Crop Patents Near End, U.S. Farmers Ask What Next?

The biotechnology industry should develop a format to handle the looming expiration of patents on the first wave of genetically modified (GM) crops, to avoid seed shortages or trade disruptions, the largest U.S. farm group said. “There just needs to be a way to deal with it,” Rosemarie Watkins of the six-million-member American Farm Bureau
News, Oilseeds

Roundup Ready Soybeans Going Off Patent

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Monsanto’s Canadian patent on its current generation of Roundup Ready soybeans expires soon, but whether farmers get their hands on any so they can save their own seed, is an open question. Monsanto Canada spokeswoman Trish Jordan says Monsanto’s seed company DeKalb is switching to the new, patented Genuity Roundup Ready 2 Yield soybeans, which
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

USDA Issues Draft Plan

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has issued a draft proposal to again allow farmers to grow Monsanto Co.’s genetically modified sugar beets. A U.S. district court in California has ruled that the sugar beets cannot be produced until the USDA issues a full environmental impact study, which the department does not expect to complete until
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

Dow Pipeline Includes Two New Weed Killers

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Two new Dow AgroSciences herbicides, Tandem and OcTTain, are coming to Western Canada soon. Tandem, a new grass and broadleaf killer, will be available next spring; OcTTain, a broadleaf killer designed for the brown and dark-brown soil zones of the southern Prairies has been submitted to the Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) and is pending
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

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