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There’s plenty of material available after a grain corn harvest, but collecting it can be tough on machinery.

Can cornfield leftovers help fill the gap on feed?

Corn stover harvest is normally an American pastime, but one Manitoba couple says the process can work here and might help fill feed supplies for anyone coming up short going into next winter

By Alexis Stockford July 20, 2018

Pasture conditions and a less-than-ideal first cut already have some producers weighing options on feed, but one Manitoba farmer says the answer might lie in the corn stover. Alfred Billingham, along with his wife, Judy, says they’ve filled in their feed supplies with baled corn stover for years, a practice more popular in the longer

Livestock

ADM to buy French animal feed business Neovia

By GFM Network News, Sybille De La Hamaide, Tom Polansek July 2, 2018

Paris/Chicago | Reuters — Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) is in exclusive talks to take over French animal feed business Neovia for 1.5 billion euros (C$2.3 billion) as part of the U.S. farm giant’s strategy to expand in the fast-growing animal nutrition sector. Neovia is majority owned by French cooperative group InVivo. Investment group Eurazeo

The Andersons’ ethanol plant at Denison, Iowa. (AndersonsEthanol.com)

Crops

U.S. ethanol makers snap up cheap sorghum after China tariffs

By GFM Network News, Michael Hirtzer, Tom Polansek May 2, 2018

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. ethanol makers have joined global livestock producers to snap up discounted American sorghum supplies after buyers in China backed out of deals due to stiff anti-dumping tariffs on the grain imposed by Beijing in a mounting trade dispute. Sorghum is used to feed animals and represents a fraction of the

Livestock

Herbicides may restrict crop use as livestock feed

Drought is causing some producers to eye grain crops as livestock fodder

By NDSU Release August 29, 2017

Some producers are turning to small-grain crops as feed for their livestock because this year’s drought is causing a severe shortage of grass and hay. However, herbicides applied to those small-grain crops may make them unusable as livestock feed. “Most herbicides have grazing and feeding restrictions stated on the label that limit the use of

Crops, Markets, Pulses

Most Canadian chickpeas headed for feed market

By GFM Network News, Phil Franz-Warkentin November 23, 2016

CNS Canada — Low yields and poor quality have caused Canadian chickpea price quotes to shoot higher. Very little of the crop actually falls under the top grades, however, leaving the bulk of the marketing to take place in the feed sector. “The chickpea harvest has been an unmitigated disaster,” said Colin Young of Midwest

Livestock, News

Test feed grains for best results

The weather this growing season is translating into feed grain quality issues

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff September 26, 2016

One of Western Canada’s leading grain quality testers says early harvest samples are showing a high risk this year for potential feed quality issues. Canadian Bio-Systems, of Calgary, is advising livestock operations and feed mills to take steps to safeguard feed quality and livestock performance. “The risk of feed grain quality issues that can affect

As soybean acres continue to expand across Western Canada, the concept of creating a local processing plant lingers.

Crops, Local news

Keeping soybeans at home to be fed

KAP members support a crushing plant, and a study for the MPGA says it’s worthwhile

By Jennifer Paige July 28, 2016

Many of Manitoba’s hog barns are surrounded by soybean fields, but the soymeal inside them may have come from hundreds of miles away in the U.S. That prompted Keystone Agricultural Producers members at their recent summer advisory meeting here to support the Brandon Chamber of Commerce’s efforts to encourage industry to construct a soybean-processing plant

Crops, Markets

Philippines rush new GMO rules to avert import disruption

By GFM Network News January 22, 2016

Manila | Reuters — The Philippines is set to issue new rules next month on GMO imports, seeking to avert food supply disruptions when a court-ordered stoppage kicks in as import permits for livestock feed expire this year, government officials said. In a landmark ruling in December, the country’s Supreme Court struck down a 2002 government

Our History

Crow debate continues, livestock producers get $20-million payment

Our History: December 1989

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff December 10, 2015

This ad from our Dec. 14, 1989 issue reminds of how mobile communication worked before cellphones. Don Mazankowski, the agriculture minister on the new Joe Clark government, had organized a major “Growing together” conference which attracted 2,000 delegates to Ottawa. It got off to a bad start — the same day Agriculture Canada forecast a

A pack of macaroons containing dehydrated insects at the Micronutris plant in Saint Orens de Gameville in southwestern France in February 2014. The company processed insects live, dehydrated or in a flour-like powder for use in pastries.

Did you know?, Livestock

Flies, worms, crickets crawl onto EU policy-makers’ menu

Insects are more likely to serve as an animal feed than as food

By Barbara Lewis October 26, 2015

Houseflies, crickets and silkworms can be safe, nutritious and more environmentally friendly alternatives to chicken, beef or pork, research carried out for the European Commission finds. Still, they are less likely to be found on European restaurant menus than in animal feed, carefully controlled to prevent the kind of prions, or abnormal proteins, blamed for

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures turn lower

U.S. grains: Soy futures dip as traders await China sales; corn, wheat sag

Seeds Canada announces Dan Wright as new CEO

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