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Canadian pasta makers accuse Turkey of dumping

To add insult to injury, much of the offending product is made with Canadian durum

By Allan Dawson February 11, 2016

Turkey is buying Canadian durum, using subsidies to make it into pasta and dumping it back into Canada, the Canadian Pasta Manufacturers say. Pasta imports from Turkey more than doubled in 2015 compared to 2014, while its value tripled, Don Jarvis, president of the Canadian Pasta Manufacturers Association (CPMA), said in an interview from his

Measuring seeding rate by the bushel can lead to wide variations in yield.

Cereals, Crops

Determining the best seeding rate for hard red spring wheat

An NDSU researcher finds that different varieties also have different tillering capacities

By Angela Lovell February 3, 2016

The old rule of thumb about seeding 1.5 bushels of wheat per acre just doesn’t apply anymore, says a researcher with North Dakota State University. Variety, seeding date and even latitude make a difference, Grant Mehring told the Manitoba Agronomists Conference in Winnipeg last December. He described his extensive, three-year research trials on seeding rates

Sunset in Egypt on the Nile River south of Luxor. (CIA.gov)

Crops, Markets

Egypt’s ergot saga leaves wheat traders in limbo

By GFM Network News, Maha El Dahan January 27, 2016

Reuters — One Egyptian official’s tough stance on wheat imports carrying a fungus that wreaked havoc in the Middle Ages is baffling global grain traders and putting a spotlight on policy-making disarray in the world’s biggest purchaser of the commodity. Alarm bells began ringing in Egypt when a 63,000-tonne wheat shipment from France arrived in

Opinion

Editorial: Paying for improved varieties

By Laura Rance-Unger January 22, 2016

Having witnessed the Canadian government’s softening commitment in recent years to research that develops improved varieties for farmers, we’ve been reluctant to let taxpayers off the hook. Historically, publicly funded research has been the cornerstone of Canada’s reputation as one of the world’s best when it comes to producing cereal crops. Over the past century,

Crops, News

How should farmers collect money for cereal varietal development — checkoffs, end point royalties or both?

Some farmers benefit from research without supporting it

By Allan Dawson January 22, 2016

For every dollar invested in wheat varietal development there’s a $20 return, says a study conducted several years ago by University of Saskatchewan agricultural economist Richard Gray and his colleagues. So why aren’t farmers investing more? “Because checkoffs are refundable. They can free ride. Full stop,” Gray said in an interview Jan. 14. Those who

Comment, Crops

Producer investment drives wheat and barley success

The WGRF is celebrating 35 years of supporting research

By Western Grains Research Foundation January 19, 2016

If you like the fact you have a lot of wheat and barley varieties to choose from when you plan out a cropping season, give yourself a pat on the back – you helped make it happen. Since 1995, the WGRF has invested over $90 million in wheat and barley variety development through partnerships with

A polar bear sculpture made of ice stands outside the Global Seed Vault in Longyearbyen at the facility’s opening in February 2008. The vault has been built in a mountainside cavern on Spitsbergen Island around 1,000 km (600 miles) from the North Pole to store the world’s crop seeds in case of disaster.

Did you know?, News

Doomsday Arctic seed vault to receive two deposits in 2016

The vault built to protect the world's seed supplied is built into the side of a Norwegian mountain

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff January 18, 2016

Two new consignments of crop seeds will be deposited this year in the “doomsday vault” built in an Arctic mountainside to safeguard global supplies. The vault — which opened on the Svalbard archipelago between Norway and the North Pole in 2008 — is designed to protect crop seeds such as beans, rice and wheat against

Our History

Replacing the Manitoba Farm Bureau, and rust problems in winter wheat

Our History: January 1984

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff January 14, 2016

Our lead story in the Jan. 5 issue was that a series of 25 meetings had been arranged to discuss the idea of a new general farm organization to replace the Manitoba Farm Bureau, which had collapsed over differences over how to pay the Crow freight rate benefit. Spokesmen for farm organizations worried that poor

(Michael Thompson photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Crops, Markets

U.S. wheat up with short-covering, but more downside possible

By GFM Network News, Phil Franz-Warkentin January 8, 2016

CNS Canada — U.S. wheat futures hit contract lows over the past week, before seeing a short-covering correction in recent days. However, with ample world supplies and poor export demand, the path of least resistance likely remains lower, according to market participants. The fundamentals are pretty bearish for wheat, but the market structure is looking

Crops

Genetic codebreaking on wheat years ahead of schedule

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff January 6, 2016

Sequencing the infamously complex genome for bread wheat — a game-changing task for wheat breeding that’s been estimated to take four or five more years — may now just take another couple of years, following a milestone announced Wednesday. The International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium (IWGSC), a team co-led by Canadian researchers, announced Wednesday it

Daily Network News

Russian grain ship believed sunk in Ukrainian drone attack found, towed to shore, TASS says

Striking JBS workers to return to Colorado plant on promise of talks

Canadian finance minister talks supply chain integrity, pork tariffs with Chinese vice premier

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