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An innovative way to encourage agricultural development

By Paul Hagerman July 20, 2012

Canadian Foodgrains Bank is always looking for creative ways to fight hunger. That’s why the organization welcomes a new idea announced by the G20 at its recent meeting in Mexico that offers rewards for companies that can solve certain food-related problems. Called AgResults, the new program offers incentives to the private sector to pursue new

Crops, News, Weather

U.S. corn farmers nervous over dry forecast

By Karl Plume July 20, 2012

Some farmers in the eastern U.S. Corn Belt have been buying back contracts of corn sold to their local elevators for post-harvest delivery as a deepening drought raised concern that there may be no grain to deliver. Volumes of buybacks have been minimal thus far, but grain merchants expect there will be more as weather

Livestock Markets, News, Oilseeds, Opinion

China’s agricultural future: Adopt developed technologies

By Daryll E. Ray, Harwood D. Schaffer July 1, 2012

China is a grudging importer of corn and pork, preferring instead to increase domestic production  

As the most populous nation on Earth, China has intermittently been seen as the solution to the problem created by the ability of U.S. farmers to produce more than they can sell at a profitable price. Sometimes the discussion is focused on cotton; at other times it is corn or soybeans. Today, it is pork

Cereals, Crops, News, Oilseeds, Opinion

Waste not, want not

By Laura Rance-Unger June 16, 2012

Every year we hear the stories — the farmer who lost a bin full of canola to spoilage, or the one who lost his sunflowers — and the bin — after the crop overheated and caught fire. Or the farmer who opened his grain bag to find an infested, rotting mess after birds or rodents

International news, News

Agricultural research funds escape austerity cuts

By Nigel Hunt June 8, 2012

Reuters / Public spending on agricultural research is on the rise, despite austerity drives in many countries, as price spikes and problems linked with climate change propel food security towards the top of government agendas, the head of a leading research body said. “People have realized that feeding the world without destroying the environment is

Hogs, International news, Livestock, News

China faces tight pork supply on disease, high costs

By Naveen Thukral June 8, 2012

China is likely to face tighter pork supply in the second half of the year as a disease among piglets reduces the number of animals for slaughter and higher feed grain costs force small farmers in the world’s most populous nation to curb production. A squeeze in China’s pork supply during the high-consumption winter months

Hogs, Livestock, Livestock Markets, News

“Spectacularly strong” demand fuels record year for pork exports

By Dwayne Klassen May 3, 2012

Exports of fresh, chilled and frozen pork set a record in 2011, but will likely dip this year. “Demand for Canadian pork products from China, South Korea and Russia were spectacularly strong in 2011,” said Martin Rice, executive director of the Canadian Pork Council. The final tally came to 1.15 million tonnes, surpassing the previous

News

Global food prices on the rise again

May 3, 2012

reuters / Global food prices are rising again, pushed higher by costlier oil, strong demand from Asia and bad weather in parts of Europe, South America and the United States, the World Bank said April 25. The latest World Bank food price index showed the cost of food rose eight per cent between December and

Crops, News, Oilseeds

China farmers switch to corn from soy

By Reuters April 30, 2012

Chinese farmers are set to expand corn acreage more than two per cent this year to reach its largest spread ever, despite a growth rate flat with last year, as record domestic prices and grain subsidies by Beijing cut into soy acreages. The lower soy acreage will ensure imports by China, the world’s top buyer

Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets, News

Iran poised to buy feed grains

April 30, 2012

hamburg / london / reuters / Iran’s government is expected to start buying hundreds of thousands of tonnes of feed grains to help its farmers deal with a shortage of feed for livestock. Western sanctions have made it increasingly difficult for private-sector grain importers to arrange payments because they are frozen out of the global

Daily Network News

Lending policy still focused on primary producers: FCC

Brazil to reap record soy crop in 2025/2026, increase exports

Argentina’s “mega” wheat crop to hit record level, exchange says

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