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High Prices Don’t Discourage Set-Aside Enrolment – for Sep. 23, 2010

By Charles Abbott September 23, 2010

Despite a late-summer surge in wheat prices, landowners offered to enroll 1.5 per cent of U. S. cropland in a federal program that pays them an annual rent for taking fragile land out of production. Some 4.3 million acres (1.7 million hectares) will be accepted of 4.8 million acres offered for the Conservation Reserve, said

Beef cattle, Livestock

Senators Say USDA Update Allows Livestock Premiums – for Aug. 19, 2010

August 19, 2010

WASHINGTON/REUTERS Meat packers will be able to pay premiums to livestock producers under marketing rules proposed by the Agriculture Department, said 21 U. S. senators, rebutting a prime objection to the proposal. Some farm groups say the June 18 proposal could bar farmers from earning additional pay for their livestock by meeting meat quality or

Livestock

Vilsack Promises To Hear Concerns Of Dairy Farmers

By Andy Szal July 1, 2010

U. S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack told struggling U. S. dairy producers on June 25 the government is looking to expand marketing opportunities for the industry, which has seen its ranks nearly cut in half during the last decade. Vilsack, speaking at the third of five “town hall” events on anti-trust issues in agriculture that

Grain Markets, Poultry

USDA Unveils New Rules For Livestock Sales

June 24, 2010

WASHINGTON/REUTERS U. S. cattle, hog and poultry producers will gain additional protection against unfair sales practices in a livestock-marketing rule unveiled June 18 by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. Among other steps, the rule would bar meat packers from offering better prices to large feeders than smaller operators without good reason and give poultry producers more

Crops, Oilseeds

New Soybean Could Cut Into High-Stability Canola Oil Markets

By Allan Dawson June 3, 2010

“The story of canola is it has always been able to keep one step ahead of soybeans.” – David Dzisiak High-oleic canola oil, most of it from Canada, has dominated the growing North American demand for healthier, non-trans fat, deep-frying oils, but American soybeans are fighting back. Last month the United States Department of Agriculture

Crops, Livestock

B. C. Cattle Found With Brucellosis

June 3, 2010

The Canadian government’s food regulator has placed animals on two farms under quarantine in the Pacific Coast province of British Columbia after U. S. testing found three cows were carrying brucellosis, a contagious bacterial disease that can cause abortions, weakened offspring an infertility in animals. Three beef cows from the farms were found carrying the

Livestock

Canada Farm Income Falls Slightly In 2009

May 27, 2010

Canadian farmers’ net income slipped slightly in 2009 as sales revenue for livestock fell faster than declining farm expenses, Statistics Canada said on May 25. Realized net farm income – the difference between a farmer’s cash receipts and operating expenses minus depreciation plus income in kind – eased 0.3 per cent to $3.6 billion ($3.3

News

Will Farmers Get “Generic” GM Crops?

By Allan Dawson May 13, 2010

WASHINGTON, D. C. Generic drugs keep drug prices down, could the same work for genetically modified crops when their patents expire? It’s an idea Tom Vilsack, the United States’ secretary of agriculture, wants to explore. “We have a generic drug industry in this country, the question is how do we create that kind of industry

Cereals, Forages, News

U. S. Supreme Court Hears GM Alfalfa Arguments

By Allan Dawson May 6, 2010

WASHINGTON, D. C. The U. S. Supreme Court was asked last week to rule on whether the courts have the authority to block genetically modified crops due to environmental concerns. The case involving Monsanto’s genetically modified Roundup Ready alfalfa heard here April 27 marks the first time the controversies over commercializing new technology have reached

News

Funds To Help Flooded Interlake Farmers

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff May 6, 2010

Farmers adversely affected by flooding in the Interlake over the past two years will receive more than $2.5 million from the federal-provincial AgriRecovery program to help them get started this spring, a joint Canada-Manitoba release says. Crop producers in the rural municipalities of Grahamdale, Siglunes, Eriksdale, Fisher, Bifrost, Coldwell, Armstrong, Gimli, and St. Laurent, the

Daily Network News

Women who fed a nation

U.S. grains: Soybeans rise on China demand hopes; corn and wheat rebound

U.S. livestock: Hogs rebound, cattle hit upward limits

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