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Bernie Peet Peet On Pigs

January 28, 2010

With relatively high feed costs compared to major pig-producing regions like North America and Brazil, the Australian pork industry has recently been placing strong emphasis on making better use of feed ingredients and increasing the efficiency of nutrient utilization. Addressing delegates at the Banff Pork Seminar, Dr. Roger Campbell, CEO of the Australian Pork Co-operative

Hogs, Livestock

New Genetic Testing Technology Revolutionizing Swine Breeding

December 24, 2009

bernie peet Peet on Pigs “The genome of the pig has millions of such SNP locations, so SNPs are a rich resource for use as genetic markers.” Bernie Peet is president of Pork Chain Consulting Ltd. of Lacombe, Alberta, and editor of Western Hog Journal. His columns will run every second week in the Manitoba

Cereals, Crops, News

MSGA Honours U Of M Plant Breeder Anita Brûlé-Babel

By Allan Dawson December 17, 2009

University of Manitoba plant breeder Anita Brlé-Babel has received an Honorary Life Membership award from the Manitoba Seed Growers’ Association (MSGA). The award, presented Dec. 9 at the MSGA annual banquet in Winnipeg, is in recognition of Brlé-Babel’s significant contributions to the pedigreed seed industry. Brlé-Babel specializes in wheat breeding and genetics and teaches several

Cereals, Crops, Opinion

A Powerful Legacy

By Laura Rance-Unger September 24, 2009

World attention was focused last week to the passing of Norman Borlaug, the American scientist known as the Father of the Green Revolution and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for his efforts to end world hunger. Borlaug died at the age of 95, still passionately committed to the role science can and

Cereals, Crops, News

New Winter Wheat Varieties Coming Soon

By Pam De Rocquigny September 10, 2009

Long-Term Yield Data & Variety Description Table Site Years Tested Resistance to: Relative Winter Hardiness CDC Falcon 100 60 0 26 VG G G F CDC Raptor 98 55 + 4 29 VG VG G G Radiant~ 96 37 + 7 30 VG VP VP VG CDC Ptarmigan 104 20 + 3 34 F P

Cereals, Crops

New Software Speeds Plant Breeding Efficiency

By Western Grains Research Foundation August 20, 2009

Two Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) scientists have developed software that allows researchers to make genetic comparisons on varieties with the click of a mouse. Software developments and a gene-mapping database funded by the Western Grains Research Foundation Endowment Fund are expected to vastly decrease the amount of time spent sorting through data to make

Oilseeds, Opinion

Corporate Co-Operation

By Laura Rance-Unger August 6, 2009

Hardly a week has passed this summer without an announcement of another collaborative effort between the major players in plant breeding. Monsanto’s collaboration with Dow AgroSciences to bring SmartStax, the agriculture industry’s first eight-gene stack, to the market is only the latest of a string of similar announcements in recent years. Monsanto has also just

News

Controversy Over New SmartStax Corn

By Alex Binkley August 6, 2009

A new genetically engineered corn var iety has been approved by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency after reviewing the combination of previously approved traits blended into the plant through cross breeding. Krista Thomas, acting national manager of the Plant Biosafety Office, said in an interview July 28 the SmartStax corn variety from Monsanto and Dow

Cereals, Crops, Oilseeds, Opinion

Improving Wheat’s Profitability

By Laura Rance-Unger July 23, 2009

Monsanto was back in the news last week with its announcement that it is re-entering the wheat-breeding business with the purchase of a Montana-based company that specializes in germplasm. The objective is to develop genetically modified wheats that have better drought tolerance, improved nitrogen efficiency and ultimately higher yields. Monsanto’s competitors, Syngenta AG, BASF and

Cereals, Crops

Devastating New Stem Rust Advances Beyond Africa

By Ron Friesen April 9, 2009

“It’s probably not a matter of if but when.” –TOM FETCH, AAFC “Behold, seven heads of grain came up on one stalk, healthy and good. And behold, seven heads of grain, thin and blasted with the east wind, sprang up after them. And the thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven healthy and full

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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