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Flood, Cold Spring Threatens U.S. Crop Output

Nearly 3.6 million acres of farmland in the Mississippi River Valley, including 40 per cent of U.S. rice area, have been affected by spring flooding. The figure was larger than earlier reports of three million acres of flooded farmland and amounts to 1.1 per cent of land usually planted in the two dozen principal U.S.
Country Crossroads, Poultry

Manitoba’s Wild Turkeys

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Over the years attempts have been made to introduce or reintroduce a number of birds into southern Manitoba. Some of these – pheasants and chucker partridges, for example – have been unsuccessful, mainly due to our harsh winters. But one success story is that of the eastern wild turkey whose spread throughout the province is
Crops

Syngenta To Go Ahead With Ethanol-Specific Corn

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Amonth after receivi ng regulatory approva l , Swiss agricultural company Syngenta is starting to sign up U.S. farmers to grow its new biotech corn seed aimed at ethanol production, but expects to enrol fewer than 20,000 acres in a contracted growing arrangement this spring, a top company executive said Mar. 16. Syngenta is meeting
Hogs, News, Poultry

Hog Producers Ring Alarm Over Possible Feed Shortages

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North America’s pork producers have issued a dire warning about a looming continental feed grain shortage that may jeopardize meat supplies and animal welfare in the coming year. Leaders of the Canadian Pork Council, the U.S. National Pork Producers Council and the Confederacion de Porcicultores Mexicanos last week issued an urgent call for government action
News

Mexico Allows GM Corn Trials To Proceed

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Mexico has approved the first pilot program to plant genetically modified corn, a sensitive topic in the country that touts itself as the birthplace of corn and where small farmers worry the high-tech grain may contaminate native varieties. The Agriculture Ministry granted a permit March 8 to global biotech seed maker Monsanto to plant no
Crops

Goss’s Wilt Firmly Established In Manitoba

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The corn disease Goss’s Wilt is established in Manitoba and farmers will have to learn to manage it, says Wilt Billing, Pioneer Hi-Bred’s area agronomist for Manitoba. “Once a field has the disease, it has the disease,” Billing told farmers during the Manitoba Special Crops Symposium Feb. 10 in Winnipeg. “It’s not going away.” Yield
Crops

Bt Corn Refuge Recommendations Could Get Easier

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The long-tern effectiveness of Bt corn in protecting crops from destructive insects hinges on preventing the bugs from developing resistance to Bt, a built-in insecticide. To avoid resistance farmers must plant the proper refugia of non-Bt corn with their Bt crop. And that’s going to get easier to do, John Gavloski, an extension entomologist with
Opinion

Forecast For March: Very, Very Hot

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After hiring into the market newsletter biz 30 years ago, my new bosses informed me that I’d sink or swim on how well I learned either fundamental or technical market analysis. I had two weeks to master one. Since fundamental analysis centres on farm and ranch facts and figures and technical analysis relies on charts
Crops

Mexico Corn Crop Hit By Frost

State agriculture officials said early estimates show 100 per cent of Sinaloa’s five-million- tonne corn crop was damaged by recent frosts, representing 20 per cent of Mexico’s national harvest. The federal Agriculture Ministry said it was still evaluating damages and it is too early to give an exact forecast of losses. An emergency replanting program
Cereals, Crops

U.S. Producers Boost Major Crop Acreage

U.S. farmers will increase plantings of the eight major crops this year by four per cent as high commodity prices encourage growers to replenish low stockpiles, the government said Feb. 14. The U.S. Agriculture Department said farmers will sow 255.3 million acres this year, up 10.1 million acres from 2010, with all major crops seeing

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