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Wheat under irrigation on Ravenshoe Station near Hay, New South Wales. (Arthur Mostead photo courtesy Murray Darling Basin Authority/MDBA.gov.au)
Crops, Reuters, Weather

Drought exposes cracks in Australia’s acclaimed water market

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Sydney | Reuters — A pioneering Australian scheme to improve the management of water in the world’s driest inhabited continent is facing its first real test as an intensifying El Nino threatens crops and builds tensions between farmers and environmentalists. The three-year old management plan for the Murray-Darling basin, an area twice the size of […] Read more
U.S. consumers’ demand for organic foods, such as this California lettuce, has risen steadily in the past decade — particularly in California, which alone accounted for 41 per cent of U.S. organic sales in 2014. (Eric Brennan photo courtesy ARS/USDA)
General, Markets, Reuters

Sales from organic U.S. farms reached $5.5B last year

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — Sales from organic U.S. farms reached US$5.5 billion last year, a 72 per cent increase from 2008, the U.S. Agriculture Department said in a report on Thursday that highlighted the consumer trend toward such products. The USDA data, compiled through farmer surveys, showed that milk was the top organic commodity in […] Read more
(Monsanto.com)
Corn, Crops, Markets, Reuters

France bolsters ban on genetically modified crops

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Paris | Reuters — France is to use a new European opt-out scheme to ensure a ban on the cultivation of genetically modified crops in the country remains in place, it said on Thursday. The European Union’s largest grain grower and exporter has asked the European Commission for France to be excluded from some GM […] Read more
(Dave Bedard photo)
Crops, Markets

StatsCan raises wheat, canola estimates with new model

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Reading Time: 2 minutes CNS Canada — Wheat and canola production are expected to be higher than in previous estimates, but still lower than in 2014, according to a new Statistics Canada model for field crop production estimates. The model-based report, released Thursday, pegs this year’s spring wheat production at 18.4 million tonnes, higher than previously forecast in the […] Read more
(Dave Bedard photo)
Canola, Crops, Markets

ICE weekly outlook: Growers hanging onto supplies

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Reading Time: 2 minutes CNS Canada — ICE Futures Canada canola contracts chalked up gains for the week ended Wednesday, as farmers hung onto supplies in the quest to draw out better prices. The January canola contract was the most consistent mover, finishing higher for the seventh consecutive session on Wednesday. Either “producers are not selling it or the […] Read more
Post-secondary students interested in Federated Co-operatives’ ag acholarship program now have until Oct. 15 to apply. (CoopAg.ca)
General

Co-op moves up timetable for scholarship program

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Prairie students planning careers in agriculture or agribusiness now have an earlier deadline to seek funding support through the Co-op Excellence in Ag program. Excellence in Ag, Federated Co-operatives’ (FCL) multi-year scholarship and summer internship program, previously had a Jan. 31 deadline, but for the 2016 round, the application deadline will be Oct. 15 this […] Read more
(Photo courtesy Canada Beef Inc.)
Crops, Weather

Alta. harvest turns up stagey crops

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Reading Time: 2 minutes CNS Canada –– Alberta farmers who could have used wet conditions earlier this year now have rain slowing their harvest progress. However, the biggest issue producers in the province face is field variability, according to Harry Brook, a crop specialist with Alberta Agriculture and Forestry in Stettler. “It truly is a mess out there — […] Read more
Legumex to sell processing plants, wind down company
Canola, Crops, Markets, Pulses, Reuters

Legumex to sell processing plants, wind down company

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Winnipeg | Reuters –– Prairie special crops firm Legumex Walker said Monday it has agreed to sell its pulse and special crop processing plants and expects to sell its U.S. canola-crushing facility, allowing it to wind down the company. Winnipeg-based Legumex plans to sell its special crops division, which includes 14 plants in Canada, the […] Read more
(Photo courtesy ARS/USDA)
Canola, Crops, Fruit/Vegetables, Reuters, Spring Wheat

U.S. court finds EPA wrong to approve sulfoxaflor over bee risks

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Reuters — A U.S. appeals court ruled on Thursday that federal regulators erred in allowing an insecticide developed by Dow AgroSciences onto the market, canceling its approval and giving environmentalists a major victory. The ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in San Francisco, is significant for commercial beekeepers and others […] Read more
Average sea surface temperature anomalies for the period from Aug. 9 to Sept. 5. (CPC)
Crops, Reuters, Weather

El Nino to strengthen in winter, gradually weaken in spring

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Reading Time: < 1 minute New York | Reuters — A U.S. government weather forecaster on Thursday said El Nino conditions would gradually weaken through the Northern Hemisphere spring after peaking in late fall or early winter. The National Weather Service’s Climate Prediction Center said the likelihood that El Nino conditions would persist through the Northern Hemisphere winter was about […] Read more

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