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Fish Farms To Double Southeast Asia Soy Demand

September 22, 2011

Soybean imports to Southeast Asia could double over the next 10 years, buoyed by demand from fish farms looking to feed China, the U.S. Soybean Export Council said Sept. 19. China, with the world s largest population, was the largest consumer of seafood last year, after Japan, a research report said. China consumed about 694

Cereals, News

In Brief… – for Sep. 22, 2011

By Reuters September 22, 2011

Sask. harvest ahead of normal:Saskatchewan farmers had harvested 60 per cent of the overall 2011 crop as of Sept. 12, moving ahead of the five-year average of 47 per cent after a week of favourable weather, the provincial government said last Thursday in a weekly report. Harvest progress was the most advanced for this time

Cereals, Crops, News

Ukraine AgMin Sees Bumper Wheat, Maize Exports

By Pavel Polityuk September 22, 2011

Ukraine plans to boost its grain harvest to 51 million tonnes in 2011 from 39.2 million a year ago and hopes to double exports to 24 million tonnes in the 2011-12 season, Ukraine s Agriculture Minister Mykola Prysyazhnyuk said on Sept. 7. Prysyazhnyuk told Reuters the former Soviet republic had harvested 22.2 million tonnes of

News, Oilseeds

Pioneer Plans To Raise Corn, Soy Seed Prices

By Ernest Scheyder September 22, 2011

Pioneer s seed unit plans to raise prices in the mid-single- digit range next year as it takes U.S. corn and soybean market share from Monsanto and other rivals. The price increase would be in line with a similar move the company undertook for the 2011 North American planting season and comes as corn prices

Cereals, Crops, Opinion

There Are Other Issues Than The CWB

By John Morriss September 15, 2011

Though you d hardly know it, the Canadian grain industry is facing issues other than the Canadian Wheat Board. For example, just what are the long-term prospects for Prairie wheat and barley exports, wheat board or not? That came to mind last week while reading Reuters reports on production and export activity out of the

News

WTO Should Seek Smaller-Scale Doha Deal

By Rod Nickel September 15, 2011

The long-running Doha round of talks will fail to reach a deal to broadly liberalize global trade this year, and should instead seek a smal ler-scale agreement in the near term, Australia s trade minister said last Friday. The Cairns Group of 19 agricultural exporters, including Australia, Canada, Brazil and Argentina, met in Saskatoon last

Cereals, Dairy cattle, News

Australian Trade Minister Supports End To Single Desk

By Allan Dawson September 15, 2011

Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz has a new high-profile ally in his quest to end the Canadian Wheat Board s (CWB) single desk Australian trade minister Craig Emerson. The Australian Wheat Board s export monopoly ended in 2008 and Emerson said it has been a great success. The Australian experience has been unambiguously good, he said

Cereals, Crops

Dry Iraq Tries New Drought Resistant Grains

By Khalid Al-ansary September 1, 2011

Iraq this year plans to start sowing a new generation of grain seeds it hopes will be more resistant to drought and soil salinity and could help bolster its wheat crop in a couple of years, an agriculture official said. The Iraqi government’s meteorological department last week said it expected three years of drought, and

Country Crossroads

Recipe Swap – for Sep. 1, 2011

By Lorraine Stevenson September 1, 2011

Sendyourrecipesorreciperequeststo: ManitobaCo-operatorRecipe Swap Box 1794, Carman, Man. R0G 0J0 or email [email protected] What if you held a fall supper and urged everyone to head out for a walk afterward? For starters, visitors to town would get a closer look at your fine community. Everyone would walk off a few calories piled on at dinner too.

News, Oilseeds

Dow Introduces Triple-Resistant Soybean

By Carey Gillam September 1, 2011

Dow AgroSciences is launching a genetically altered soybean seed aimed as a direct assault on the dominance of global seed leader Monsanto. Dow submitted a regulatory package on Aug. 19 seeking government approval for a glyphosate-tolerant soybean that the company says would be the “first-ever, three-gene,” herbicide-tolerant soybean. The new soybean will be tolerant of

Daily Network News

‘Like gold’: Europe’s barley prices climb as buyers chase supply

Ag in Motion wins business tourism award

U.S. livestock: ‘Relentless’ fund selling knocks down CME cattle futures

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