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Cereals, Crops

Canada Offers Wheat, Japan Buys As Planned

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Japan bought food wheat from Canada at a regular tender on Feb. 3 and a Canadian Wheat Board memo shows it managed to find scarce high-protein supplies despite a global shortage of top-quality wheat. The wheat board sold Japan’s Ministry of Agriculture 37,110 tonnes of top-grade spring wheat for shipping March 12 to April 11,
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In Brief… – for Feb. 3, 2011

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Food comic contest:Food Secure Canada has launched a comic book competition for students from Kindergarten to Grade 12 that illustrates one of the three good food themes: healthy, sustainable and fair. Winners receive prize packages and the top 10 entries from three age categories will be featured inCanada’s Good Food Hero Comic Book,which will be
Crops, Forages

Manitoba Growers Edgy About GM Alfalfa Release In U.S.

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Manitoba forage seed producers are dismayed, but not surprised that American regulators have released Roundup Ready alfalfa in the U.S. without restrictions. “Whoever thought that Roundup Ready wasn’t going to come to the market was living in a dream world,” said Adam Gregory, an alfalfa seed producer from Fisher Branch. The U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Biofuel Jatropha Doesn’t Measure Up

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Jatropha, a biofuel-producing plant once touted as a wonder crop, is turning out to be much less dependable than first thought, both environmentalists and industry players say. Some biofuel producers found themselves agreeing with many of the criticisms detailed in a report launched by campaign group Friends of the Earth this week “Jatropha: money doesn’t
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Most EU States Back Trace GM In Food Imports

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Amajority of European Union countries want to allow tiny traces of genetically modified (GM) material in food imports for human consumption, according to an internal EU briefing paper seen by Reuters Jan. 21. In October, the European Commission proposed new rules that would allow up to 0.1 per cent of unapproved GM material in imports
Livestock, Oilseeds

China-U. S. Soybean Deal Largest Ever

China wrapped up its biggest ever one-off U.S. soybean purchase on Jan. 21 in a $6.7-billion deal equivalent to nearly half of last year’s total trade, surprising dealers who had expected a more symbolic volume. With a second tranche of deals to buy 8.45 million tonnes, Chinese firms travelling as part of President Hu Jintao’s
Cereals, Crops, News

Kazakh Grain Crop To Recover After Export Dip

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Kazakhstan, expecting a return to average crop volumes this year, has reduced its grain export forecast to seven million tonnes in the current marketing year after its drought-affected harvest fell below expectations in 2010. The world’s seventh-largest wheat exporter is forecasting a 2011 harvest of between 15 million and 16 million tonnes, helped by plentiful
Crops

Bankers Say Spinoff Could Put Mosaic In Play

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Agribusiness giant Cargill Inc. plans to spin off its $24-billion majority stake in Mosaic Co., a move that could eventually lead to a takeover of Mosaic, the world’s second-largest fertilizer producer. The distribution of the 64 per cent stake in Mosaic will allow Cargill to maintain its private company status while enabling Cargill family trusts
Cereals, News

Grain Rally Less Speculative Than In 2008: Ritz

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The recent rally in grain and oilseed prices is based more on concerns about crop levels than on speculation by investors, Canada’s agriculture minister said Jan. 17. Prices of crops such as wheat, corn, soybeans and canola are at their highest levels in more than 2-1/2 years amid flooding in Australia and dryness in Argentina.
Country Crossroads

Swap Your Steak For Bugs And Worms, Scientist Urges

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Mealworm quiche, grasshopper springrolls and cuisine made from other creepy crawlies is the answer to the global food crisis, shrinking land and water resources and climate-changing carbon emissions, Dutch scientist Arnold van Huis says. The professor at Wageningen University in the Netherlands said insects have more protein than cattle per bite, cost less to raise,

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