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Corn Prices Driven Higher By Record Speculative Longs

Co r n prices have rallied $2.50 per bushel, since the market stopped going down on June 29, 2010. Some of the buying is a result of hedgers locking in prices before the market goes higher. But to a larger degree, it is the large speculative buy orders that have driven prices to $5.73 per
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Ranchers Back In The Black?

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The first big sale of the annual fall calf run saw buyers offering the best prices seen in years, which may signal that the bottom of the cattle market has been reached. It’s just one sale, however, and represents little more than a snapshot of day-to-day conditions, but Michael Buchen, a MAFRI cattle market specialist,
Opinion

Buy Local — But Ignore The “Locavores” Nonsense

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You can’t open the food section of your newspaper these days without another sermon on the virtues of eating local. The eulogy takes as self-evident the moral superiority of the gospel of locavorism: relocalizing the food supply promotes sustainability because it reduces the fossil fuel needed to deliver the food. Buying local makes a good
Livestock

Hay Made (And Grass Grazed) While Sun Shines

Ca t t l e marketings by producers in Manitoba varied widely across the province during the week ended Oct. 1, with deliveries associated with the weather conditions. Prices for the cattle marketed generally held steady. “Marketings really came down to the area of the province and whether conditions were conducive for harvest operations,” said
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Thousands Visit Farms On Open Farm Day

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Tita Evangelista was astonished to discover there’s something else she might want to have for dinner some time: Manitobaraised bison. “The bison! I didn’t know you could eat that,” laughed the Winnipeg woman, who immigrated three years ago from the Philippines. She was one of a throng of Manitobans who took a trip on September
Livestock

Sales Slower As Harvest Weather Improves

Ad e c e n t week of weather had an effect on volumes of cattle at Manitoba auction markets during the week ending Sept. 24. Henry Penner of Grunthal Auction Mart said it had 580 head come through the gates at its sale Sept. 22, over 200 fewer than the previous week. “We had
Beef cattle, Livestock, Oilseeds

Omega-3 Beef Trial Falls Short

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Beef researchers hoping to emulate omega-3 enriched pork, poultry and eggs by adding flax to cattle diets are finding it’s easier said than done. In order for beef marketers to slap a Health Canadaapproved label on beef touting it as a source of the “good” fat that helps prevent heart disease and stroke, the meat
Livestock

Autumn Bites Into Burger Demand – for Sep. 23, 2010

Co o l e r temperatures and fewer daylight hours are a sure sign that fall is here, and the changing of seasons had an effect at Manitoba auction marts for the week ending Sept. 17. Robin Hill, manager of Heartland Livestock Services at Virden, said butcher cow and bull prices at its Sept. 15

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