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Speculation Reigns Ahead Of U. S. Estimates

By Phil Franz-Warkentin April 1, 2010

For three-times-daily market reports from Resource News International, visit “ICE Futures Canada updates” at www.manitobacooperator.ca ICE Futures Canada canola contracts moved higher during the week ended March 26, although activity was choppy and relatively range-bound. Much of the strength in canola could be seen as a reaction to the weaker Canadian dollar, which was down

Crops

Best Of Both Worlds

By Daniel Winters April 1, 2010

“Often row crops that we grow just suffer too much growth and yield depression when they are seeded in zero-till conditions.” – JOHN HEARD It’s hard to beat warm, black soil for spring seeding. But under the zero-tillage doctrine, which places great importance on the moisture retention and soil preservation advantages of retained trash cover,

Cereals, Crops

Grain Values Drop In PROs

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff April 1, 2010

Burdensome” supplies have pressured wheat, durum and barley values in the Canadian Wheat Board’s latest pool return outlooks (PROs) for both the 2010-11 and 2009-10 crop years. The CWB on March 25 marked down its March 2010-11 PROs for milling wheat values by $14-$16 per tonne from February values, with No. 1 Canada Western Red

Cereals, Grain Markets, Oilseeds

States’ Soggy Spring Supportive

By Phil Franz-Warkentin March 25, 2010

For three-times-daily market reports from Resource News International, visit “ICE Futures Canada updates” at www.manitobacooperator.ca ICE Futures Canada’s canola futures bounced around during the week ended March 19, setting fresh contract lows in the nearby months before eventually recovering to post modest advances in the most actively traded nearby contracts. However, the new crop months

Cereals, Crops, Oilseeds

Canola And Peas “Love” Each Other

By Daniel Winters March 25, 2010

Results from intercropping trials are showing that planting two crops together offers higher yields than monocultures. It’s old hat for organic farmers, who have been seeding cover and relay crops since the days when Grandpa seeded peas and oats together, harvested them with a horse-drawn binder, and pitched the sheaves off a hayrack to his

Cereals, Crops, News

U. S. Wheat Exports To Fade As Russia Flexes Muscle

By Karl Plume March 25, 2010

“(Russia is) essentially taking bushel for bushel market share away from the U. S. while we are focused on burning our food (as biofuel).” – BILL LAPP, ADVANCED ECONOMIC SOLUTIONS U. S. wheat production and slumping exports will continue to fade in coming years due to increasing competition in the global marketplace from lower-cost producers

Cereals, Crops

Russia Plans To Expand Wheat Exports

By Naveen Thukral March 18, 2010

“We will be selling Russian wheat directly to flour mills in Asia and we are not going to go through third-party trading companies.” Russian wheat exports to Asia are likely to jump sixfold, to around three million tonnes by 2011, as the country mounts its first aggressive marketing campaign to sell grain in the region,

Cereals, Crops, News, Oilseeds

U. S. Grain Stockpiles Swell As Sales Slow

By Charles Abbott March 18, 2010

U. S. corn and wheat stockpiles will swell to their largest size in years as corn exports slow and Americans use less flour, the government said on March 10 in a report likely to influence planting this spring. Record crops, despite last year’s rain, flooding and snow, are still in the marketing stream. The supplies

Cereals, Grain Markets, Oilseeds

Western Barley Interest Dwindling

By Phil Franz-Warkentin March 18, 2010

For three-times-daily market reports from Resource News International, visit “ICE Futures Canada updates” at www.manitobacooperator.ca ICE Futures Canada canola contracts moved lower during the week ended March 12, with some of the contracts hitting fresh contract lows. While there were some attempts at short-covering rallies, the bearish influences were much more persuasive. Spillover selling from

Cereals, News, Oilseeds

Arctic Seed Vault Sets Record, Over 500,000 Samples

By Alister Doyle March 18, 2010

A“doomsday” vault storing crop seeds in an Arctic deep freeze is surpassing 500,000 samples to become the most diverse collection of food seeds in history, managers said on Thursday. Set up on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard two years ago, the vault aims to store seeds of all food crops deep beneath permafrost to wi

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