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Goss’s Wilt Firmly Established In Manitoba

By Allan Dawson February 24, 2011

The corn disease Goss’s Wilt is established in Manitoba and farmers will have to learn to manage it, says Wilt Billing, Pioneer Hi-Bred’s area agronomist for Manitoba. “Once a field has the disease, it has the disease,” Billing told farmers during the Manitoba Special Crops Symposium Feb. 10 in Winnipeg. “It’s not going away.” Yield

Opinion

Forecast For March: Very, Very Hot

By Alan Guebert February 17, 2011

After hiring into the market newsletter biz 30 years ago, my new bosses informed me that I’d sink or swim on how well I learned either fundamental or technical market analysis. I had two weeks to master one. Since fundamental analysis centres on farm and ranch facts and figures and technical analysis relies on charts

Crops

What Are Field Ruts Doing To Your Corn Yield?

By Jodi Dejong-hughes February 3, 2011

Three of the past five falls have been wet enough to cause field equipment to create significant ruts across the fields. Growers are asking, “What is the carry-over effect of ruts on crop growth and yield?” To find the answer, I performed GPS analysis on seven pairs of ruts and neighbouring non-rutted area in four

Grain Markets

Rice Prices Stay Relatively Low

January 13, 2011

SINGAPORE/REUTERS Ample rice supplies from top exporters Thailand and Vietnam should keep prices in check through the first quarter, sparing Asia’s staple food from the rally in other commodity prices. Benchmark Thai rice dropped 13 per cent in 2010, while U.S. wheat futures climbed around 50 per cent as adverse weather hit key producing regions.

Crops

DuPont Says New Corn Seed Yields Better In Droughts

By Carey Gillam January 13, 2011

DuPont said on Jan. 5 it was launching a new corn seed that would yield better in “water-limited” environments, as growers around the world seek ways to maximize production during droughts. DuPont, which owns Pioneer Hi-Bred, one of the world’s largest agricultural seed companies, is introducing a limited quantity of the corn hybrids for planting

Cereals, Crops, News

Kenyans Turn To Potatoes And Fish

January 13, 2011

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

Cereals, Grain Markets, Oilseeds

Firm Demand, Tight Supply Support Canola

By Phil Franz-Warkentin December 16, 2010

The ICE Futures Canada canola market hit some fresh contract highs during the week ended Dec. 10, but also ran into profit-taking that limited the upside. While market participants were still digesting the larger-than-expected production numbers put out by Statistics Canada on Dec. 3, those supplies are also being met with some pretty solid demand

Cereals, News, Oilseeds

In Brief… – for Dec. 2, 2010

By Reuters December 2, 2010

Volatile markets: Wheat values generally dropped $1 to $4 per tonne in the November CWB Pool Return Outlook (PRO). The exception is No. 1 CWRS 14.5, No. 1 CWSWS and feed wheat, which have all increased slightly from October. Durum is up between $1 and $6 per tonne. Malting barley is down $7. The board

Cereals, Crops, News

Russia Needs 80-Million-Tonne Crop

By Aleksandras Budrys November 25, 2010

Russia will need to reap at least 80 million tonnes of grain in the 2011-12 crop year to cover domestic needs, Arkday Zlochevsky, president of powerful grain lobby the Russian Grain Union, said Nov. 18. Russia, formerly the world’s third-largest wheat exporter, was hit by its worst drought in over a century this summer. As

Cereals, News

World Farming To Get Climate Adaptation Aid

By Laurie Goering November 25, 2010

Development agencies worldwide are joining forces to spend $200 million in a 10-year program to help the agriculture sector prepare for climate change and cut greenhouse gas emissions, farm research groups said Nov. 17. The funding will go to research on how to feed a growing, more affluent world population in the face of expectations

Daily Network News

USDA confirms bird flu case in Wisconsin dairy herd as new wildlife spillover

Prairie Wheat Weekly: Modest increases for cash prices

Huge crops in South America says analyst

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