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Canadian Farmers Optimistic As Prices Rise

By Rod Nickel January 20, 2011

Canadian farmers are the most optimistic they’ve been in four years, according to a survey by the country’s top farm lender, as grain and oilseed prices trade around 2-1/2-year highs. Seventy-six per cent of the 4,900 farmers and farm business owners that Farm Credit Canada surveyed last autumn said they expect their farm or business

Cereals, News

In Brief… – for Jan. 13, 2011

By Reuters January 13, 2011

Dangerous beetle found in L.A.:U.S. customs officials last week said they had found a beetle considered one of the world’s most dangerous agricultural pests in a shipment of rice arriving at Los Angeles International Airport. Officials found an adult khapra beetle, eight larvae and a shed skin in a shipment of Indian rice from Saudi

Grain Markets

Rice Prices Stay Relatively Low

January 13, 2011

SINGAPORE/REUTERS Ample rice supplies from top exporters Thailand and Vietnam should keep prices in check through the first quarter, sparing Asia’s staple food from the rally in other commodity prices. Benchmark Thai rice dropped 13 per cent in 2010, while U.S. wheat futures climbed around 50 per cent as adverse weather hit key producing regions.

Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets

Australia Wheat Quality Slumps In Bittersweet Harvest

By Bruce Hextall January 4, 2011

Up to half of Australia’s current wheat harvest could be downgraded to animal feed or low-grade milling grain, raising concerns for a severe global shortage of higher-quality wheat and marring the nation’s biggest crop in eight years. Crop analysts and farmers told Reuters that up to 50 per cent of the 2010-11 crop would be

Cereals, Crops

Weather Curbs High-Protein Wheat Supply

By Naveen Thukral December 9, 2010

Unusual harvest rains could turn nearly nine-tenths of Australia’s high-protein milling wheat into poorer-quality feed wheat, further strengthening premiums between the two that are already the highest in at least 15 years. The impact will be felt globally, as Australia was expected to produce a bumper crop to offset a supply squeeze in high-quality wheat

Cereals, Crops, News

Rains Plague Australian Harvest

December 9, 2010

Australia’s eastern states face at least another week of wet weather after rains stalled the country’s wheat harvest and raised concerns about the crop’s quality, the country’s weather bureau said Dec. 6. The Australian Bureau of Meteorology was forecasting more rainfall across eastern state grain regions through the week as farmers struggle to get harvesting

Opinion

Facing Up To Climate Change

December 2, 2010

Avery Simundsson of Arborg was first runner-up in the senior division of the Canadian Young Speakers for Agriculture held at the recent Royal Agricultural Winter Fair. Simundsson, 21, is an engineering student at the University of Manitoba. The following is an excerpt from her speech on the topic of “What is the biggest challenge in

Cereals, News, Oilseeds

In Brief… – for Dec. 2, 2010

By Reuters December 2, 2010

Volatile markets: Wheat values generally dropped $1 to $4 per tonne in the November CWB Pool Return Outlook (PRO). The exception is No. 1 CWRS 14.5, No. 1 CWSWS and feed wheat, which have all increased slightly from October. Durum is up between $1 and $6 per tonne. Malting barley is down $7. The board

Cereals, News

World Farming To Get Climate Adaptation Aid

By Laurie Goering November 25, 2010

Development agencies worldwide are joining forces to spend $200 million in a 10-year program to help the agriculture sector prepare for climate change and cut greenhouse gas emissions, farm research groups said Nov. 17. The funding will go to research on how to feed a growing, more affluent world population in the face of expectations

Crops

Vietnam Aims To Boost Rice Crop For Food Security

By Ho Binh Minh November 25, 2010

Vietnam vowed to maintain current rice crop areas and boost yields to ensure supplies remain adequate in the face of demand pressures from a fast-growing population as well as the effects of climate change. The government’s pledge of security of food supplies touched a key agenda topic at two conferences that opened in Hanoi recently,

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle, hog futures rise on first WASDE since September

U.S. export sales include only small soybean business to China

U.S. corn and soybean yields revised down by USDA

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