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The lowly potato gets a healthy makeover

A low-glycemic potato expands the menu for diabetics

By AAFC November 27, 2014

Scientist Benoît Bizimungu and his team at the Potato Research Centre in Fredericton, New Brunswick, and the Lethbridge Research Centre in Alberta have developed a low-glycemic potato. Low-glycemic-index foods digest slowly, without creating a big spike of sugar and insulin in the body. This helps to achieve sustainable weight loss and improvement in the management of

Crops, National news

AAFC proposing two-tier crop variety registration system

One category would require merit testing and the other would only require the registrant to demonstrate a variety was new, distinguishable, uniform and stable

By Allan Dawson November 24, 2014

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) is proposing to reduce Canada’s crop variety registration system from three tiers to two by 2016. One of the tiers would still include merit testing as part of the process for registering new wheats for western Canadian farmers, which is seen by many as an important tool in assuring wheat

Opinion

Editorial: The information age and agriculture’s footprint

University agronomist says estimates of how much food needed to feed world's population by 2050 are too low

By Laura Rance-Unger November 24, 2014

The latest global supply-and-demand outlooks make it a little difficult to get too excited over worries the world will run out of food any time soon. World grain prices are weakening under what are characterized as burdensome supplies of staple commodity crops. Most of the pundits are now predicting we’re in for a prolonged period

Cereals, Crops, National news, Oilseeds

FP Genetics unveils CWRS Certified Seed Profit Guarantee

The company is confident its new wheats will outperform bin-run varieties

By Allan Dawson November 4, 2014

FP Genetics is so confident one of its new Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS) wheats is more profitable than older varieties grown from bin-run seed, it’s guaranteeing it. “We’ve developed a program that allows a grower to upgrade their wheat genetics at no risk to them,” FP Genetics CEO Rod Merryweather said in a news

Amy and Donald Nikkel live with their two young children, Eli, age 2-1/2, and Alexis, five, on their small farm where they grow naked oats near
Lundar.

Cereals, Country Crossroads

Oats at a slower pace

Good food should be an excuse to slow down, say made-in-Manitoba cereal makers

By Lorraine Stevenson July 21, 2014

Some think boiling water for porridge takes too much time. The Nikkel household grows the oats and rolls them in their own mill first. Amy and Donald Nikkel, Interlake school teachers, set out five years ago to start farming at a pace and scale that made sense for their own busy lives. Today they are

Cereals, Grain Markets, Oilseeds, US Markets

U.S. Cash Grains-Soy bids mostly weak after farmer sales

By Reuters November 27, 2013

Nov 27 (Reuters) - Soybean cash basis bids were mostly steady to lower around the U.S. Midwest on Wednesday, pressured by a spike in farmer sales following a two-month high in futures prices at the Chicago Board of Trade, dealers said. * Bids eased at an elevator in Ohio, processor in Ohio and along Midwest

Cereals, Crops

Saudi millers wrap up program at Cigi

By Shannon VanRaes November 27, 2013

Agroup of millers is taking home a host of new skills, after trading sand dunes for snowbanks to study in Manitoba. Eleven wheat processors from Saudi Arabia have spent the last six months learning all aspects of milling and wheat processing at the Winnipeg-based Canadian International Grains Institute (Cigi). “For me I can relate what

Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets, Oilseeds, US Markets

GRAINS-Wheat up on anticipated Egypt demand, soy at 2-month high

By Reuters November 27, 2013

* Wheat up for 4 out of 5 sessions on demand hopes * Market eyes Egypt wheat tender, poor output in Argentina * Soybeans climb to 2-month high on strong demand (Adds details, quotes) By Naveen Thukral SINGAPORE, Nov 27 (Reuters) - Chicago wheat edged higher on Wednesday, rising for four out of five sessions,

Cereals, Grain Markets, Oilseeds, US Markets

GRAINS-Corn, wheat tumble; soybeans scramble to flat finish

By Reuters November 26, 2013

* Soybeans unchanged after three straight gains * U.S. corn harvest 95 percent complete * USDA reports fresh soybean sale, China cancellation (Adds closing U.S. prices) By Rod Nickel WINNIPEG, Manitoba, Nov 26 (Reuters) - Corn and wheat prices fell on Tuesday, as the huge U.S. corn harvest wrapped up and investors banked profits from

Cereals, Grain Markets, Oilseeds, US Markets

CIF Gulf Grain-Corn bids mostly steady, soy steady-firm

By Reuters November 26, 2013

Nov 25 (Reuters) - Basis bids for corn shipped by barge to the U.S. Gulf Coast were mostly steady early on Tuesday while soybean basis bids were steady to firm, underpinned by steady export demand, traders said. * CIF wheat basis bids were mostly steady to higher, with spot soft red winter wheat bids supported

Alberta Crop Report: Higher-than-average yields expected

U.S. livestock: Tight cattle supply helps CME futures rebound from collapse

U.S. grains: Soy futures post weekly loss on expectations for big U.S. crop

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Alberta Crop Report: Higher-than-average yields expected

U.S. livestock: Tight cattle supply helps CME futures rebound from collapse

U.S. grains: Soy futures post weekly loss on expectations for big U.S. crop

Tag Archives Staple foods — page 6

The lowly potato gets a healthy makeover

AAFC proposing two-tier crop variety registration system

Editorial: The information age and agriculture’s footprint

FP Genetics unveils CWRS Certified Seed Profit Guarantee

Oats at a slower pace

U.S. Cash Grains-Soy bids mostly weak after farmer sales

Saudi millers wrap up program at Cigi

GRAINS-Wheat up on anticipated Egypt demand, soy at 2-month high

GRAINS-Corn, wheat tumble; soybeans scramble to flat finish

CIF Gulf Grain-Corn bids mostly steady, soy steady-firm

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