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Canola Drops On Fund Profit-Taking

By Phil Franz-Warkentin June 30, 2011

ICE Futures Canada canola contracts dropped sharply during the week ended June 24, hitting their lowest levels in over a month as a broad-based fund sell-off weighed on prices. An unexpectedly bearish Statistics Canada acreage report also accounted for some of the selling, although most participants were downplaying the large StatsCan acreage number, given the

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One More Seeding Option

By Allan Dawson June 23, 2011

The crop insurance deadlines for annual crops have passed, but farmers still have an opportunity to generate a salable crop from those unseeded acres – while controlling weeds and soaking up some of that excess moisture. Extension agronomists and cattle producers are urging crop farmers with unseeded acres to grow greenfeed. With so many pastures

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U.S. Crop Futures A Victim Of Growers’ Success

By Commodity News Service June 23, 2011

Canola futures on the ICE Futures Canada trading platform experienced a setback in value during the week ended June 17. The significant downturn in CBOT (Chicago Board of Trade) soybean and soyoil futures helped to facilitate the losses in canola, with the steady liquidation of positions by speculators and, to some extent, commodity fund accounts

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Scientists Race To Avoid A Bitter Climate Change Harvest

By David Fogarty June 23, 2011

Charlie Bragg gazes across his lush fields where fat lambs are grazing, his reservoirs filled with water, and issues a sigh of relief. Things are normal this year and that’s a bit unusual of late. His 7,000-acre farm near the Australian town of Cootamundra is testament to the plight facing farmers around the globe: increasingly

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Crop Report – for Jun. 23, 2011

By Manitoba Agriculture June 23, 2011

SOUTHWEST Another week of wet weather limited any progress in seeding. The region received about 30 to 120 mm of rain with Wednesday reporting the largest rain event. All runways and ditches were running and many roads were once again closed in several municipalities. In areas south of Highway 1 overall seeding progress remains at

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Dry Conditions On Both Sides Of The Atlantic

By Marie Maitre June 16, 2011

Drought from Paris, France to Paris, Texas has farmers and grain dealers looking upwards – to the skies for signs of rain. U.S. wheat prices are on their way to their biggest weekly gain and European benchmark wheat futures have jumped just under 30 per cent in the past nine weeks as wheat belts on

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Tissue Testing Now Available

By Reuters June 16, 2011

Farmers Edge, an independent precision agriculture consulting firm based in Winnipeg has expanded its laboratory services to include in-season tissue-testing services. “Farmers Edge Laboratories is now the only agriculture lab in Manitoba offering a full complement of in-season soil and tissue testing, giving growers the expedited results they need to make timely cropping decisions,” says

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World’s Skies Rain Bulls And Bears

By Phil Franz-Warkentin June 9, 2011

ICE Futures Canada canola contracts bounced around within a rather narrow range during the week ended June 3, seeing some consolidation after climbing to their highest levels in months the previous week. Both the old-crop July and the new-crop November contract ran into stiff chart resistance at the $600-per-tonne level, which may have factored into

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U.S. Corn Farmers At Crunch Time On Planting

By Christine Stebbins June 9, 2011

U.S. farmers who lag planting corn due to a soggy spring will still opt to seed corn rather than take an insurance payout or plant soy if their farms usually run high yields, a University of Illinois economist said June 3. “Farms with higher expected yields will find planting corn more attractive than taking the

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Seed Maker Pioneer Races For Crops As Climate Changes

By Christine Stebbins June 9, 2011

Achanging climate that many scientists fear will hurt global crop production means seed makers must work harder to meet food needs as world population grows by 30 per cent by 2050, a top world seed executive said. “Agriculture production is moving to the North because those climates are becoming warmer. Some of those environments are

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Canola Drops On Fund Profit-Taking

One More Seeding Option

U.S. Crop Futures A Victim Of Growers’ Success

Scientists Race To Avoid A Bitter Climate Change Harvest

Crop Report – for Jun. 23, 2011

Dry Conditions On Both Sides Of The Atlantic

Tissue Testing Now Available

World’s Skies Rain Bulls And Bears

U.S. Corn Farmers At Crunch Time On Planting

Seed Maker Pioneer Races For Crops As Climate Changes

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