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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,

Cereals, Crops, News

Australia Wheat Quality Hit By Rain, Harvest Slows

By Bruce Hextall November 25, 2010

Australia’s wheat harvest is being slowed by continuing rain across eastern states, raising concerns over crop quality in one of the world’s top exporters of the grain. Harvesting is already running up to three weeks behind normal in parts of eastern Australia. “The issue is when will the rain stop so the harvest can fire

Cereals, Crops

CWB Must Be A Strong Advocate For Farmers

By John Sandborn November 18, 2010

For over 30 years, I have produced wheat and canola near Benito, Man. This has made me a strong supporter of the single-desk marketing and farmer control of the Canadian Wheat Board. These are the reasons I am asking for your support in the Canadian Wheat Board directors’ elections. It matters who we elect and

Cereals, Oilseeds, Opinion, Pulses

Grain-Grading Pain

By Kevin Hursh November 11, 2010

It’s a difficult year to be a grain buyer. Due to bleaching, sprouting, disease and frost, grades are all over the map and a lot of the grading factors are open to human interpretation. The grading standards sound objective. For instance, No. 1 canola may contain up to two per cent distinctly green seeds and

News

African Agriculture Coming Of Age

November 4, 2010

Agrowing African food sector can yield private sector returns on the back of government support, said a report on Oct. 26, which also said that a global grain reserve may be needed to protect consumers from price spikes. Local initiatives aiming for an African equivalent of the Green Revolution, which swept developing countries in the

Crops

Bayer Settles U. S. Rice Contamination Case

By Carey Gillam October 28, 2010

Germany’s Bayer AG has agreed to settle a lawsuit brought by a group of Texas rice growers over claims the company’s experimental biotech rice contaminated the U. S. supply four years ago and decimated exports. Bayer said it had agreed to pay $290,000 to settle the case, involving eight plaintiffs from three farming operations. The

Crops

New Method Yields More Rice With Less Water

By Emily Stephenson October 28, 2010

Rice farmers could boost their yields by 50 per cent with a new method that uses less water, Oxfam America said Oct. 20 as climate change and drought threaten the staple crop. Growing rice – considered the major calorie source for about half the world’s population – is water intensive, accounting for as much as

Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets

Russia Grain Crop Down 33.2 Per Cent

October 14, 2010

MOSCOW/REUTERS Drought-devastated Russia harvested 60.96 million tonnes of grain by bunker weight as of Oct. 5, down 33.2 per cent from a year ago, according to Agriculture Ministry data seen by Reuters Oct. 11. Russia’s worst drought in more than a century sparked a rally in global grain markets, pushing wheat prices to their highest

Cereals, Crops, Opinion

How Governments Can Help

By Kevin Hursh September 30, 2010

The difficult, abnormally wet growing season is being capped with a harvest from hell. If governments are interested in lending some support, here’s an idea that has merit. This concept has been suggested by a number of farm groups. The way the fall is going, the idea is now especially relevant. Why not provide a

Oilseeds, Opinion

China Turns Into A Regular Corn Importer

By Niu Shuping September 30, 2010

China’s major foray into the global corn market this year could become routine as it strives to fend off the threat of animal feed price inflation, which Beijing worries could send household food bills soaring. With feed demand in the world’s second-biggest corn consumer rising by nearly eight per cent a year over the past

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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