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Wheat Stocks At Nine-Year High

The International Grains Council has trimmed its forecast for the 2010 global wheat crop by one million tonnes but still saw stocks climbing to a nine-year high in 2010-11 despite record consumption. The IGC put the global wheat crop in 2010 at 658 million tonnes with consumption in 2010-11 seen rising by two per cent
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Rice Production Plan Could Be Controversial

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“If you grew a quarter section of this stuff, on a hot day in July the area for miles would smell like a Polish sausage factory.” Scientists at the Cereal Research Centre in Winnipeg are refusing to comment on reports that they have developed a winter-hardy variety of rice suitable for production on the Canadian
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Rice Market Skewed By Government Moves

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Unpredictable government intervention in the rice sector is adding to volatility in a thinly traded market and could lead to new price swings in what is a staple food in much of the world. Rice is a politically sensitive crop as a daily essential in much of Asia and Africa, and a price spike in
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Wild Plants Sought For Climate Traits

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Farm experts plan to track down wild relatives of crops such as rice or wheat with traits that make them able to resist global warming in a project costing perhaps $50 million, a leading expert said March 9. “The wild relatives of cultivated crops … are largely uncollected or conserved in gene banks,” said Cary
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Bt Corn Growers Must Comply

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Canada’s corn growers are “slipping significantly” in following the requirements for a non-Bt refuge when planting Bt corn, a pest management stakeholders’ group says. The Canadian Corn Pest Coalition, which includes academics, extension and research staff, regulators, corn growers’ associations and the seed industry, warned last week that refuge compliance dropped to 61 per cent
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Goss’s Wilt Now In Manitoba

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“For known cases of Goss’s we do have products that will perform and don’t exhibit the symptomology of the disease.” – WI LT BILLINGS Manitoba farmers normally have few disease worries with corn, but not anymore. Last year Goss’s Wilt, a new bacterial disease to Manitoba with the potential to substantially reduce yields and quality,
Cereals, Crops

DuPont Collaborates On Biotech Maize For Africa

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DuPont said on Feb. 17 that its agricultural unit had formed an alliance in sub-Saharan Africa to collaborate on development of higher-yielding maize varieties that need less fertilizer. DuPont’s Pioneer Hi-Bred unit will contribute gene technology in work led by the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) and funded with $19.5 million in grants
Cereals, Crops

Pick Corn Hybrids That Will Mature Here In A Normal Year

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A high-yielding corn crop isn’t worth much if it doesn’t mature before the first killing fall frost. That’s why days to maturity should be the first criterion when picking a hybrid, followed closely by potential yield, according to Pam de Rocquigny, a feed grains specialist with Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives. “Yield is what
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Quality Woes, Competition To Hurt U. S. Corn Exports

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Corn exports from the United States, the world’s top seller of the grain, will struggle to hit the government target amid worries about U. S. corn quality and competition from other feed grain suppliers. The 2009 U. S. corn harvest was the longest in decades due to rainy, cool weather that cut the quality of
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FAO Sees Less Wheat, More Coarse Grains

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World wheat output could fall by five per cent in 2010 after two bumper crop years, but coarse grain output may rise, the United Nations’ food agency said. Wheat-planted areas in the United States dropped to the lowest level in almost a century because of bad weather and falling prices, the UN Food and Agriculture

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