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Rolling in corn stover

Corn Guide: Corn baling works, and shrewd business management could create a huge opportunity for corn producers

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Reading Time: 7 minutes This year’s push for a corn stover-processing facility to be built somewhere in southern Ontario isn’t exactly new. Many similar proposals have been voiced in the past decade. This time, though, there’s a difference. What sets this venture apart is that the combination of economic benefits for the region and agronomic benefits for growers may […] Read more
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Corn, Crops, Markets, Soybeans

CBOT soybeans poised to drop below US$10

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Reading Time: 2 minutes CNS Canada — The Chicago Board of Trade soybean futures market has dropped sharply during the week ended Wednesday, and is poised to fall even further. “For March soybeans, I think it could potentially trade back to the US$9.45-$9.50 per bushel area,” said Terry Reilly of Futures International in Chicago (all figures US$). A bearish […] Read more
Corn, Crops, Markets, Reuters, Soybeans

Brazil says key soy road won’t be paved until 2016

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Brasilia | Reuters –– An important road for soy and corn shipments linking to ports in northern Brazil will not be paved until 2016, the country’s transport minister said on Tuesday. President Dilma Rousseff said last year that the highway, known as BR-163, would be ready by mid-2015 as the government tries to relieve crowded […] Read more
U.S. farmland rents soften with grain prices
Corn, Crops

U.S. farmland rents soften with grain prices

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Reuters — U.S. farmland rents for 2015 are on track to be down 5 to 10 per cent from the top fees of a year ago due to lower grain prices, but landowners remain stubborn about deeper cuts and some are adding clauses to boost revenue if grain prices bounce back. More than half the […] Read more
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Corn, Crops

New record corn yield — 503 bushels

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Randy Dowdy of Valdosta, Georgia has been declared winner of the U.S. National Corn Growers Association 2014 National Corn Yield Contest with an all-time record of 503 bushels per acre. The 18 winners in six production categories had verified yields averaging more than 383.6 bushels per acre, compared to the projected national average of 173.4 […] Read more
Corn, Crops, Markets, Reuters, Soybeans

China approves Viptera corn, two types of soybeans

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters –– A top Chinese government official said the country has approved imports of genetically modified Agrisure Viptera corn and two varieties of biotech soybeans after years of review, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said Wednesday. Chinese Vice-Premier Wang Yang said imports of Viptera corn, known as MIR 162, had been approved by […] Read more
Corn, Crops, Markets, Reuters

China approves Syngenta’s Viptera corn: reports

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Chicago | Reuters — Chinese authorities have informed some agriculture industry officials that the government has approved U.S. imports of a type of genetically modified corn that has sparked lawsuits against seed maker Syngenta, according to reports from Agri-Pulse and Bloomberg. Syngenta will make an announcement about Chinese government approval of Agrisure Viptera corn, known […] Read more
corn crop with fungicide resistance
Corn, Soybeans

On the sidelines

Disease resistance isn’t a big corn or soybean issue today, but...

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Reading Time: 6 minutes With so many stories about resistance hitting the farm news in the last five years, any new stories about chemical resistance on the farm now tend to generate one of two reactions: disinterest (approaching boredom) or a touch of hypersensitivity. Neither is the best reaction, especially with all the new learnings about the possibilities of […] Read more
Corn, Crops, Markets, Reuters

Syngenta sees China approving contentious GM corn soon

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — Syngenta expects to win Chinese government approval soon for imports of a type of genetically modified corn at the center of lawsuits over U.S. grain shipments rejected by Beijing, a company spokesman said Friday. Syngenta, one of the world’s largest seed companies, will make an announcement when it receives official documentation […] Read more
Corn, Crops, Markets, Reuters

U.S. distillers’ grain prices rise on domestic demand, China hopes

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — The price of corn-based distillers’ dried grain (DDG), a byproduct of ethanol refining, has jumped 25 per cent in the past month as demand rose from domestic livestock feed mixers as well as exporters on hopes China will return to the market after halting imports this summer, traders and analysts said […] Read more

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