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Don’t Overlook Feed Value Of DDGs

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Ethanol producers often get much of the blame for driving the price of corn to its current multi-year high levels due to that industry’s strong usage of corn to make fuel. But critics overlook the growing production and distribution of Dried Distillers Grains (DDGs), a byproduct of ethanol output used in animal feeds as an
Beef cattle, Livestock

U.S. Cattle Herd Expansion Underway

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U.S. ranchers have begun to rebuild shrinking herds in response to record-high cattle prices, but lenders remain cautious, the head of the country’s largest cattle group said. It is the first indication that the cattle herd was going through an expansion after the financial crisis of 2008 and the ensuing global recession hurt the livestock
Forages, Hogs, Livestock

Deadline Extended

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The deadline for the Canada-Manitoba Feed and Transportation Assistance Program (CM-FATAP) has been extended to March 31. The program helps livestock producers whose feed supplies were reduced due to excessive moisture last year with transportation costs to bring feed to their livestock or take the livestock to the feed. The program also provided money to
Livestock, Poultry

NFL Lockout Would Be Bad News For Chicken Wings

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An extended NFL lockout would be devastating to the chicken wing industry, which has already seen prices drop precipitously this year, the chief executive of Sanderson Farms said. “It would kill wings, it would be terrible on wings,” Joe Sanderson said at the Reuters Global Food and Agriculture Summit Mar. 14. Chicken wings are popular
Livestock

Information And Transparency Key To Market Stability

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France’s presidency of the Group of 20 nations should focus on promoting transparency on agricultural data worldwide, and not so much regulation, speakers said at the Reuters Global Food and Agriculture Summit. France has blamed financial speculation in commodity markets for the surge in prices for food staples, and has called a meeting of G20
Dairy cattle, News

Radiation In Japanese Food A Concern

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The World Health Organization said on Monday that radiation in food after an earthquake damaged a Japanese nuclear plant was more serious than previously thought, eclipsing signs of progress in a battle to avert a catastrophic meltdown in its reactors. Engineers managed to rig power cables to all six reactors at the Fukushima complex, 240
News

Tight Money May Mean Cuts To U.S. Farm Bill

Congress may push idle cropland back into production or get rid of a $5-billion- a-year subsidy to grain, cotton and soybean farmers when it overhauls U.S. farm law, a House committee chairman said Mar. 16. Lawmakers will have billions of dollars less to spend on the Farm Bill than in 2008, Agriculture Committee chairman Frank
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
Crops

Bee Deaths May Signal Wider Pollination Threat

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Mass deaths of bee colonies in many parts of the world may be part of a wider, hidden threat to wild insect pollinators vital to human food supplies, a UN study indicated March 10. Declines in flowering plants, a spread of parasites, use of pesticides or air pollution were among more than a dozen factors

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