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Don’t Let Winter Blues Get You Down

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I hope you made it through Blue Monday last week. What I mean is, I hope you weren’t paying any attention to it. The first Monday of the third week of January (the date is debated) has been dubbed The Most Depressing Day of the Year. What it is, actually, is just another myth that
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DUC, Bayer, Support Winter Wheat Research

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Canada’s top winter wheat breeder has been awarded a $600,000 grant to continue his work – even though he’s winding down his breeding program. But University of Saskatchewan plant scientist Brian Fowler says new winter wheat cultivars from his breeding program will continue to appear for years to come. For example, a new cultivar named
Cereals, Grain Markets, Oilseeds

Don’t Cry For Argentina Just Yet

ICE Futures Canada canola contracts climbed to fresh contract highs during the week ended Jan. 14, but ran into speculative profit-taking and farmer hedges to the upside, which tempered the advances. While corrections are to be expected, the general consensus amongst analysts seems to be for more strength in canola heading into spring, especially as
Cereals, Crops

New Herbicide Aimed Against Group 2 Resistance

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Cereal growers in Western Canada looking for control of Group 2-resistant weeds including kochia, chickweed and cleavers, now have a new weed-resistance management tool. Optica Trio is a Group 4 herbicide combining three active ingredients in one package to control broad-leaf weeds in wheat (spring, durum and winter), barley and oats. “Optica Trio is a
Cereals, Crops

The Ultimate Hit List — The Top 100 Food Crops

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Picking the world’s most important food crops is no small feat, given tastes differ around the world and there are many ways to measure value. But Ernest Small had one fundamental criteria in mind when he wroteTop 100 Food Plants: The World’s Most Important Culinary Crops. “Obviously, we can rank them on a dollar-value basis,
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Market Attention Turns To Spring Seeding Plans

ICE Futures Canada canola contracts bounced around in a narrow range during the first trading week of the new year, but finished a little weaker than they were to end 2010 as some profit-taking came forward to weigh on values. In the U.S., soybeans, corn and wheat also saw a similar pattern to start the
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Soybean Acres Poised To Jump In 2011

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Brace yourself for a possible big leap in Manitoba soybean acres in 2011. Soybean plantings could jump by 40 per cent or more this year, following a record crop in 2010 despite adverse growing conditions, producers at St. Jean Farm Days were told. Strong prices and the arrival of new varieties are fuelling the potential
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Kenyans Turn To Potatoes And Fish

Kenyans have changed their eating habits and consume more food other than the usual maize staple, driving up food security in the country, a senior Ministry of Agriculture official said. Key staple foods such as maize and wheat have previously been hit hard by high prices following shortages after bad weather conditions or diseases. “We
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Analysis: Wheat Class War To Erupt In 2011

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The price of every class of wheat pushed strongly higher in 2010 as production problems beset nearly all the world’s major wheat growers to offer a uniformly supportive backdrop for the global wheat market. But with wheat prices now at multi-year highs around the world, end-users are starting to seek out substitutes for expensive feed

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