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Africa Needs “Green Revolution” For Food Security

June 3, 2010

Sub-Saharan Africa needs a “Green Revolution” investing in agricultural technology to boost food security after decades of underinvestment, a United Nations agency said May 19. The UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) said in a report that technology and innovation must be targeted at the needs of Africa’s millions of smallholder farmers and reflect

Cereals, Crops, News

Iraq To Double Wheat Production

By Khalid Al-ansary June 3, 2010

Iraq expects to double its wheat production this year to around 2.5 million tonnes, meeting half its consumption needs, thanks to good rains, a deputy agriculture minister said May 19. Iraq’s agriculture sector, hurt by decades of war, sanctions and neglect, has suffered severe drought in the last two years, hitting wheat and rice production

Crops, Livestock

Experts Pinpoint Rice Gene That Controls Yield

By Tan Ee Lyn May 27, 2010

Researchers in Japan and China have identified in separate studies a gene in rice that appears to control grain yield, they reported May 25. Some experts say crop yields need to double by 2050 to feed the world’s growing population and enhancing crop production is viewed as an important solution. Led by Motoyuki Ashikari at

News

Thailand’s Sacred Oxen Forecast Bountiful Crops

May 20, 2010

Sacred Thai oxen predicted good fortunes for the coming year on May 13 with abundant rains and healthy crops, in stark contrast to other forecasts calling for crops to shrink during a ravaging drought. The ancient plowing ceremony in Buddhist Thailand, overseen by Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn, marks the end of the dry season and

Livestock

Drying Corn Can Lock Away Its Feed Energy

By Jim Romahn April 15, 2010

One of the risks involved with using Ontario’s 2009 corn crop for poultry is the amount of drying required. It might have destroyed enzymes, and some protein and energy might be bonded to each other and not available to poultry. That’s according to Dr. Mike Leslie, poultry nutritionist for Masterfeeds, at a producer update meeting

Cereals, Livestock, News

Rice Production Plan Could Be Controversial

By Avril Premiere April 1, 2010

“If you grew a quarter section of this stuff, on a hot day in July the area for miles would smell like a Polish sausage factory.” Scientists at the Cereal Research Centre in Winnipeg are refusing to comment on reports that they have developed a winter-hardy variety of rice suitable for production on the Canadian

Crops

EU To Keep Grain Mountain

By Michael Hogan March 25, 2010

The European Union will be compelled to retain its growing mountain of 4.2 million tonnes of unwanted grain as no disposal outlets are feasible in an era when subsidized sales on world markets are no option, analysts said March 19. This may mean the EU faces a storage bill of up to 74 million euros

Cereals, Crops, News

Algeria’s Grain Output Drive Starts To Pay Off

By Lamine Chikhi March 25, 2010

Algeria is moving to slash grain imports in coming years as the government enacts urgent reforms to stop farm yields tumbling in times of drought. The authorities were shocked into action in 2008 when the national grain harvest slumped to 2.1 million tonnes and the government scrambled for foreign cereals to feed the population of

News

Rice Market Skewed By Government Moves

By Gus Trompiz March 25, 2010

Unpredictable government intervention in the rice sector is adding to volatility in a thinly traded market and could lead to new price swings in what is a staple food in much of the world. Rice is a politically sensitive crop as a daily essential in much of Asia and Africa, and a price spike in

Cereals, Crops

Russia Plans To Expand Wheat Exports

By Naveen Thukral March 18, 2010

“We will be selling Russian wheat directly to flour mills in Asia and we are not going to go through third-party trading companies.” Russian wheat exports to Asia are likely to jump sixfold, to around three million tonnes by 2011, as the country mounts its first aggressive marketing campaign to sell grain in the region,

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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