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Syngenta To Go Ahead With Ethanol-Specific Corn

By Carey Gillam March 24, 2011

Amonth after receivi ng regulatory approva l , Swiss agricultural company Syngenta is starting to sign up U.S. farmers to grow its new biotech corn seed aimed at ethanol production, but expects to enrol fewer than 20,000 acres in a contracted growing arrangement this spring, a top company executive said Mar. 16. Syngenta is meeting

Hogs, News, Poultry

Hog Producers Ring Alarm Over Possible Feed Shortages

By Ron Friesen March 24, 2011

North America’s pork producers have issued a dire warning about a looming continental feed grain shortage that may jeopardize meat supplies and animal welfare in the coming year. Leaders of the Canadian Pork Council, the U.S. National Pork Producers Council and the Confederacion de Porcicultores Mexicanos last week issued an urgent call for government action

Livestock, Poultry

NFL Lockout Would Be Bad News For Chicken Wings

By Jessica Wohl March 24, 2011

An extended NFL lockout would be devastating to the chicken wing industry, which has already seen prices drop precipitously this year, the chief executive of Sanderson Farms said. “It would kill wings, it would be terrible on wings,” Joe Sanderson said at the Reuters Global Food and Agriculture Summit Mar. 14. Chicken wings are popular

News

Food Safety Offenders To Be Revealed

By Alex Binkley March 24, 2011

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency will start posting the names of importers and domestic food companies that run afoul of food safety laws. “This is a fair and balanced way to protect consumers,” Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz told a media briefing at a small community grocery store. “While consumers have a high degree of confidence

Cereals, Grain Markets, Oilseeds

Economic Uncertainty Sends Speculators Packing

March 17, 2011

Canola futures on the ICE Futures Canada trading platform suffered a major price setback during the week ended March 11, with much of the downward price slide associated with the unloading of positions by speculative accounts. None of the liquidation orders were based on fundamentals; rather, individuals were unnerved by ongoing tensions in the Middle

Crops

Federal Funds For Potato Exports

By Alex Binkley March 17, 2011

Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz presented $743,000 to the Canadian Horticulture Council last week to help it find new international markets for top-quality Canadian spuds. He said demand for Canadian potatoes is surging and the growers want to make the most of the opportunity that’s been presented them. The funding is modelled after assistance the minister

Crops

Researchers Seek Causes Of Honeybee Colony Collapse

By Zach Howard March 17, 2011

Birds do it, fleas do it but when bees do it, it is worth some $200 billion to the world economy. That’s why scientists are seeking a way to stem mass deaths of the world’s primary pollinator – the honeybee – which affect more than 30 per cent of bee colonies in the United States

News

As Land Runs Out, U.S. Corn Yield Growth Must Quicken

By Carey Gillam March 17, 2011

For decades, U.S. farmers have helped feed the world by sowing some of the most versatile cropland, adjusting each year to grow a bit more of this and less of that, to replenish those crops in greatest shortage. This year, however, even with farmers planting nearly every acre of arable land, it will not be

Opinion

Mother Hubbard’s Empty CCC Cupboard

March 10, 2011

On a sunny, sub-zero day 20 or so years ago, the great-grandson of a Kansas homesteader related one of the most important lessons passed on to him by his family’s boom-bust-boom generations of dryland farming. “My grandfather,” he offered, “taught us that it’s not the choices you make in the bad times that usually cause

Cereals, Grain Markets, Oilseeds

Prediction Of Record Canola Acres Meets Resistance

March 10, 2011

Canola futures on the ICE Futures Canada trading platform experienced a bit of a roller-coaster ride during the week ended March 5, as values pushed down one day and then moved up the next. On the week, canola values pushed upward thanks to steady domestic crusher demand, the surfacing of some fresh export demand and

Daily Network News

Canadian agriculture must be seen as growth sector: Blois

Chicken, eggs benefit from demand for economical protein

Spain detects first swine fever cases outside initial Barcelona outbreak zone

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