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Fertilizer Pricing The Last Straw For Farmers

By Beverly Stow October 1, 2009

“Well, if they (farmers) won’t pay our prices, we’ll grow the grain in China or India.” In the late winter of 1975, our family was having lunch in a Brandon, Manitoba restaurant. At the table next to ours, three fertilizer executives (two local and one from the U. S.) were discussing product pricing and bemoaning

Cereals, Grain Markets

Ethanol Still Supporting Grain Markets

By Don Bousquet October 1, 2009

For three-times-daily market reports from Don Bousquet and RNI, visit “ICE Futures Canada updates” at www.manitobacooperator.ca Grain and oi l seed prices at ICE Futures Canada in Winnipeg closed the week ended Sept. 25 lower with modest losses in canola. Canola was pressured down by the advancing harvest, favourable weather, bearish technical signals, slower demand

Crops

U. S. Court Rules Against GM Sugar Beets

October 1, 2009

Afederal U. S. court has ruled in favour of critics of Monsanto Co.’s genetically engineered sugar beets, saying the U. S. government failed to adequately evaluate their environmental and economic risks. The U. S. District Court for the northern district of California ruled that the U. S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection

Livestock

Loonies Not Lucky For Livestock

September 10, 2009

Ca t t l e prices at the auction yards in Manitoba during the week ended Sept. 4 held relatively stable, although the continued appreciation of the Canadian dollar was viewed as a bearish price influence. Marketings of cattle were down a bit in comparison to the previous week’s level. Continued poor demand from U.

Cereals, Grain Markets, Oilseeds

Canola Crop To Shrink 25 Per Cent

By Don Bousquet August 27, 2009

For three-times-daily market reports from Don Bousquet and RNI, visit “ICE Futures Canada updates” at www.manitobacooperator.ca Grain and oilseed prices at ICE Futures Canada in Winnipeg closed the week ended Aug. 21 mixed with canola down modestly as the firm Canadian dollar, weak soyoil prices and bearish technical signals sent the market sharply lower. News

News

U. S. “Dead Zone” Smaller But More Severe

By Timothy Gardner August 6, 2009

The “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico, an area choked by low oxygen levels that threatens marine life, is smaller than expected this year but more deadly, the U. S. government said July 27. The zone, caused by a run-off of agricultural chemicals from farms along the Mississippi River, measured about 3,000 square miles

Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets, Oilseeds

Weather, Washington Weigh On Wheat

By Don Bousquet July 30, 2009

For three-times-daily market reports from Don Bousquet and RNI, visit “ICE Futures Canada updates” at www.manitobacooperator.ca Grain and oilseed prices at ICE Futures Canada in Winnipeg closed the week ended July 24 lower, with canola pushed to its lowest level since March on the improved crop condition and the amazing rally in the Canadian dollar.

Crops

Plant Breeder Hopes African Development Takes Root

By Roberta Rampton June 25, 2009

For Gebisa Ejeta, it was not enough that he developed new varieties of a food staple crop that resisted droughts and a devastating weed that sucked the life out of cereal crops in his native Ethiopia. Ejeta, who was awarded the 2009 World Food Prize on Thursday, was really driven to get the seeds he

Opinion

An Open Letter To The Prime Minister And All Federal Leaders

June 4, 2009

Canada’s independent ranchers and farmers – the backbone of our cattle and beef sectors – are receiving some of the lowest prices they’ve seen since the Great Depression. Adjusted for inflation, prices today are half of price averages from the 1970s, and ’80s. Today’s Depressionechoing prices are bankrupting long-standing cattle producers and forcing farm families

Livestock

NFU Backs U. S. Senate

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff June 4, 2009

The National Farmers Union wants Canada to follow the U. S. government’s lead and curtail captive supply in cattle markets. Captive supply is a technique wherein beef-packing companies use cattle they own, or cattle they control through contracts that do not contain fixed prices, to push down prices to independent sellers. Captive supplies allow packers

Daily Network News

National survey of farmer and rancher mental health launches

U.S. grains: Soybean futures rise as dollar hits four-year low

U.S. livestock: Cattle retreat, hogs rise

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