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Deere Eyes $500-Million Investment In Russia Farm Boom

By Robin Paxton May 13, 2010

Deere and Co. , the world’s largest farm equipment maker, is on track to spend $500 million building new plants in Russia and offering credit lines and other services to farmers within the next six years. Deere chairman and chief executive Samuel Allen said April 27 that Russia, the European Union, South America and Asia

Livestock, News

In Brief… – for May. 6, 2010

May 6, 2010

Safety lapse: Four children were injured April 28 after they were thrown from an ATV they were riding on a public road in the Rural Municipality of La Broquerie. The 13-year-old male driver and two of his passengers, aged one and two, were taken to Winnipeg Health Sciences Centre. A 10-year-old female passenger was treated

Grain Markets

Agriculture A Good Buy When Volcanoes Erupt

May 6, 2010

LONDON/REUTERS Agricultural commodities were left in the dust as base metal prices boomed last year, but now represent the better investment, commodities bull Jim Rogers told Reuters April 29. “I’d rather buy agriculture, which didn’t move up, and I don’t want to buy base metals because they did go up,” he told Reuters in a

News

Israel To Help African Farmers Fight Desert

By David Lewis May 6, 2010

Having “conquered the desert” at home, Israel is ready to share technology and skills with African countries struggling to sustain agricultural output due to increasingly unreliable rains, an Israeli minister said. Shalom Simhon, Israel’s minister of agriculture and rural development, said sharing know-how, especially in irrigation and water management, was his focus on a tour

News

Scientist Rewarded For Grassroots Agronomy

By Jeff Franks April 29, 2010

Asinging scientist who says the key to Cuba’s agricultural future lies in its agrarian past has become the first Cuban to win a U. S.-based Goldman Environmental Prize, the world’s biggest award for grassroots environmentalism. Humberto Rios, 46, was announced as a prizewinner on April 19 in San Francisco along with five other activists from

Cereals, News, Oilseeds

U. S. Crop Program May Reshape Farmland Values

April 29, 2010

U. S. farmer choices between two crop subsidy programs in 2010 will affect farm profits and even farmland values, according to a report published by the Kansas City Federal Reserve. The multi-year U. S. Farm Bill passed in 2008 allows farmers to receive price support payments for grain, cotton and other row crops through a

Crops, Oilseeds

EU Report Reveals Damage From Biodiesel

By Pete Harrison April 29, 2010

Biofuels such as biodiesel from soybeans can create up to four times more climate-warming emissions than standard diesel or petrol, according to an EU document released under freedom of information laws. The European Union has set itself a goal of obtaining 10 per cent of its road fuels from renewable sources, mostly biofuels, by the

News, Weather

India Needs Better Monsoon Forecasting

By Ratnajyoti Dutta April 22, 2010

Predicting monsoon rains, vital for India’s farm output and economic growth, remains a challenge for the country as its forecasting skills are inadequate, scientists and weather officials said April 13. “Monsoon is still a mystery phenomenon. It poses a great challenge in forecasting,” Ajit Tyagi, director general of the India Meteorological Department, told the South

Cereals, Crops, News, Oilseeds

Can It Be Too Early?

By Allan Dawson April 15, 2010

After a couple of late springs, western Canadian farmers are poised to start seeding early thanks to above-normal temperatures that star ted in March. Earlier-seeded crops usually yield better and with farmers planting more acres, many are anxious to get rolling. But before Manitoba farmers hit the fields, they need to think about the potential

News, Oilseeds

In Brief… – for Apr. 15, 2010

April 15, 2010

Canola crush plant eyed: The R. M. of Woodlands’ community development corporation (CDC) has confirmed ongoing discussions with an unnamed company interested in crushing canola at its new industrial park, just outside Warren. All that’s publicly known so far is that planned infrastructure for the park is meant to “immediately serve a canola-crushing plant and

Daily Network News

U.S. grains: Soybeans mixed on doubts over Chinese demand

Tyson Foods to close U.S. beef plant as cattle supplies dwindle

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures dip as Brazilian beef tariffs lifted

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