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Hunger is exclusion. Exclusion from the land, from jobs, wages, income, life and citizenship. When a person gets to the point of having nothing to eat, it is because all the rest has been denied. I keep Josue de Castro s words pinned near my desk, lest I be tempted to believe I m really
Cereals, Crops, Forages, Oilseeds

Harvest Smoothly Heads Into The Home Stretch

crop report Southwest Region Little to no rainfall in the southwest region brought harvest to 95 per cent complete; only a few fields of late-seeded canola and cereal crops remain. Most canola that remains unharvested has high green seed counts due to the frost. Producers are waiting for a rain to help reduce green seed
Cereals, Hogs, Livestock

Using DDGS Effectively To Reduce Feed Costs

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Over the last decade, the availability of dried distillers grains with solubles, or DDGS, has increased rapidly, while the price of cereal grains has escalated. This is forcing the livestock industry to take a hard look at how to utilize the byproducts of industrial processes that use not only grains, but also oilseeds and pulses.
Cereals, Grain Markets, Oilseeds

Highs Likely In For Canola Market As Harvest Ends

column Phil-Franz Warkentin CNSC The ICE Futures Canada canola market saw some wide price swings during the week ended Sept. 30, finishing with declines after testing downside resistance on a number of occasions. On the whole, the bearish factors in the market outweigh anything supportive, but a short-covering bounce does remain a possibility going forward.
Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets

Big U.S. Wheat, Corn Stocks Send Prices Tumbling Anew

washington/reuters U.S. corn and wheat stocks were much larger than expected at the end of the summer, providing a larger buffer against this year s reduced harvest and driving some grain prices to their lowest levels this year. In a sign that near-record grain prices curbed demand far more than analysts had anticipated, inventories of
Cereals, Crops, Oilseeds

Dry Weather Remains A Concern

REUTERS / The U.S. Department of Agriculture in its weekly crop progress report on Sept. 26 said 15 per cent of the U.S. corn crop had been harvested, up from 10 per cent a week ago and slightly behind the five-year average of 16 per cent. Sixty-three per cent of the corn crop was mature
Cereals, News

In Brief… – for Sep. 29, 2011

Cargill expands West Fargo plant:Cargill will spend an estimated $50 million rebuilding and expanding its oilseed-processing plant in West Fargo, the company has announced. The existing facility has served us well since we built it 30 years ago, and we are now looking at rebuilding it to meet the needs of our customers for the
Cereals, Crops, News

Argentina Farmers Eye End To Unpopular Quota System

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Argentina s grains industry is debating a proposal to overhaul local corn and wheat markets so exporters pay farmers higher prices a reform the government could very well adopt. The state intervenes in corn and wheat trade now with incremental export quotas and subsidies to local millers, which are aimed at guaranteeing affordable food supplies
Cereals, Crops, News

Drought Keeps Stranglehold On U.S. Plains Wheat

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Drought cont inues to plague the U.S. Plains hard red winter wheat region and there is no relief in sight from the dryness until at least October, an agricultural meteorologist said Sept. 23. It remains quite dry and it will remain that way for at least three weeks, on into October, said Don Keeney, meteorologist
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Get Big, Or Get Small

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In 1999, the Peters family reached a crossroads, with Walter and Erna eyeing retirement, and son Marlin and wife Deb looking to make a start in farming. But taking over a 1,000-acre grain farm wasn t an appealing prospect. We were kind of at the point where the equipment was aging, and something needed to

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