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Crops, Markets

Post-CWB review flags grain trade ‘inefficiency’

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Reading Time: < 1 minute WITHDRAWN, April 15, 2016: A historian’s review of the Prairie grain trade, commissioned by supporters of the former single marketing desk for wheat and barley, suggests history is repeating itself at grain growers’ expense — but the data on which the review is based is now being questioned. The Canadian Wheat Board Alliance on Wednesday released a […] Read more
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Crops, Reuters

Germany backs EU plan to approve glyphosate

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Berlin | Reuters –– Germany plans to back an European Union proposal that would allow the continued use of glyphosate in herbicides, according to a letter from the agriculture ministry. Glyphosate is used in many herbicides including Monsanto’s Roundup, but has provoked a dispute between EU and U.N. agencies over whether it might cause cancers. […] Read more
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Crops, Reuters

EU food safety experts warn on crop insecticide

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Brussels | Reuters –– Dimethoate, an insecticide widely used to protect crops such as cherries, could be harmful to humans, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), which advises EU policymakers, said Tuesday. The report follows a request from France, which is calling for a Europe-wide ban of the substance made by companies including BASF and […] Read more
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Crops, Markets

Farmland fundamentals potentially bearish: FCC

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Having tracked more double-digit percentage increases in Canadian farmland prices through 2015, Canada’s federal farm lender sees factors lining up for those values to retreat. Farm Credit Canada’s latest Farmland Values Report, released Monday, logged a 10.1 per cent increase in average farmland values in Canada in 2015, down from a 14.3 per cent rise in […] Read more
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Crops, Machinery, Reuters

CP scraps plans to buy Norfolk Southern

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Reuters — Canadian Pacific Railway said on Monday it had scrapped efforts to buy Norfolk Southern, almost six months after it launched its unsolicited US$28 billion bid for the fourth-largest U.S. railroad operator. The announcement comes days after the U.S. Justice Department urged the Surface Transportation Board to reject a voting trust arrangement CP had […] Read more
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Crops, Markets, Reuters

EU deal yet to bear fruit for Ukrainian exporters

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Reading Time: 5 minutes Gorodok | Reuters — Ukraine’s Association Agreement with the European Union was meant to lure the bread basket of the former Soviet Union away from its longstanding ties with Russia by offering better access to the EU market. But debate about it was the spark that lit the Maidan street protests in 2013 and a […] Read more
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Crops, Machinery, Reuters

U.S. Justice Dept. urges rejection of CP voting trust

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Reuters — The U.S. Justice Department on Friday urged a regulator to reject a voting trust Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) has proposed as part of its takeover bid for U.S. railway Norfolk Southern, saying it could hurt competition and would violate rules. In mid-November, CP disclosed a $28 billion offer for the Virginia-based company, which […] Read more
Brandon, Manitoba farmer Adam Gurr used a three-year on-farm trial to develop a new approach to canola-seeding rates.
Canola, Crops

10 steps to better on-farm experiments

Do you have a nagging agronomy question you want answered? Follow these steps to set up an on-farm trial and put that question to the test

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Reading Time: 6 minutes Adam Gurr wanted to know if he could cut his canola-seeding rate and not sacrifice yield or extend maturity. So the Brandon, Man. farmer set up a three-year trial to answer the question. Gurr compared his usual seeding rate to one that was 20 per cent less and one that was 50 per cent less. […] Read more
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Crops, Reuters

Chinese citizens protest ChemChina-Syngenta deal

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Beijing | Reuters — Around 400 Chinese citizens have signed a letter to protest the purchase of Swiss-based seeds and pesticides company Syngenta by state-owned ChemChina, saying the deal would eventually lead to genetically modified crops being sown across swathes of the country. Critics of genetically modified organisms argue the technology poses risks to public […] Read more

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