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Corn, Crops, Soybeans

Ontario won’t widen comment window on neonics: GFO

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Reading Time: < 1 minute The public comment period on Ontario’s planned regulations for neonicotinoid seed treatments will close Thursday as scheduled, despite requests from the province’s grain grower group for an extension. The province has “refused” to extend the public comment period on the use of the insecticide group in seed treatments, Grain Farmers of Ontario said in a […] Read more
Samples are taken from a load of corn at IGPC’s Aylmer, Ont. ethanol plant. (IGPC.ca)
Corn, Crops, Markets

Ont. co-op swaps corn supply line for ethanol plant

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Corrected, April 30, 2015 — Farmer co-operative IGPC plans to switch to Thompsons from Cargill as the main corn supplier for its southwestern Ontario ethanol processing plant, starting this fall. Thompsons Ltd. will start buying corn immediately for deliveries from Oct. 1 onward to the Aylmer, Ont. ethanol plant, IGPC (Integrated Grain Processors Co-operative) said in a […] Read more
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Demand for silage corn hybrids gets a new look

New research pinpoints the link between population in the field and quality in the barn

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Reading Time: 6 minutes The past 15 to 20 years have seen a tremendous evolution in corn breeding and trait development, from Bt and corn rootworm hybrids to stacked trait technologies, not to mention the adoption of multi-purpose hybrids. In that same time frame, however, there’s been a display of defiance from producers who demand a dedicated silage hybrid […] Read more
Corn, Crops, Machinery, Markets, Soybeans

Brazil farm belt roads blocked in new trucker strike

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Sao Paulo | Reuters — Truckers in Brazil resumed roadblocks across the country’s main farm belt early on Thursday, after failing to reach common ground in talks with the government and freight companies in recent weeks regarding pay and fuel prices. Highway police on Thursday evening estimated that protesters had blocked roads at 17 points […] Read more
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Corn, Crops, Markets, Reuters, Spring Wheat, Winter Wheat

Daily price limits revised for CBOT grains futures

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Chicago | Reuters — Daily price limits for Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) corn and wheat futures will rise starting in May, while soybean limits will not change following a semi-annual review, CBOT parent CME Group said Thursday. Under exchange rules, the CBOT resets daily limits for grains and oilseeds in May and November of […] Read more
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Canola, Corn, Crops, Markets, Reuters, Soybeans

U.S. regulators may recommend testing food for glyphosate residues

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Reuters — U.S. regulators may start testing food products for residues of the world’s most widely used herbicide, the Environmental Protection Agency told Reuters on Friday, as public concern rises over possible links to disease. Glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup herbicide, has come under intense scrutiny since a research unit of the World Health […] Read more
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Corn, Crops, Weather

Man. corn planting seen starting last week of April

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Reading Time: < 1 minute CNS Canada –– The dry bias to this year’s spring, along with recent warm temperatures, leads one Manitoba agronomist to conclude corn will soon be going into the ground. “By the last week in April… unless some weather shift happens,” said Morgan Cott, agronomist for the Manitoba Corn Growers Association. Excess moisture shortened last year’s […] Read more

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