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CNS Canada — Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS) wheat cash bids across Western Canada were steady to slightly lower during the week ended Friday, while Canada Prairie Spring Red (CPSR) bids posted small gains. Average CWRS prices were down by C$1-$4 per tonne across the three Prairie provinces, according to price quotes from a cross-section […] Read more
CWRS bids down, CPSR bids up across Prairies
U.S. grains: Corn, soybeans, wheat post monthly loss
Chicago | Reuters –– Chicago Board of Trade soybean futures edged higher on Monday on a round of end-of-month short covering while wheat was mixed and corn settled close to unchanged, traders said. Corn, soybeans and wheat posted monthly losses during August, the second straight month of declines for all three commodities. Expectations that a […] Read more
Latvia, Greece win opt-out from Monsanto GM crop
Brussels | Reuters — Monsanto said it would abide by Latvia’s and Greece’s requests under a new EU opt-out law to be excluded from its application to grow a genetically modified (GM) crop across the European Union, but accused them of ignoring science. Under a law signed in March individual countries can seek exclusion from […] Read more
U.S. grains: Wheat falls to three-month low on ample world supplies
Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Board of Trade wheat futures fell to a three-month low on Friday on signs that U.S. wheat is overpriced in a well-supplied global market, especially given strength in the U.S. dollar. Soybeans rose on worries about dry weather in parts of the Midwest and spillover support from a strong rally […] Read more
YOUTH AG-SUMMIT:’Thought leaders’ consider farming’s future
Sustainability, leadership and innovation in agriculture guided four days of learning, debating and discussion among young “thought leaders” from 33 countries at this week’s Youth Ag-Summit. The event, held in Canberra, Australia from Aug. 24 to 27, and organized by Bayer CropScience and the Australian youth organization Future Farmers Network, was set up to build […] Read more
Youth Ag-Summit: How Australian ag benefits from biotech
A speaker at the international Youth-Ag Summit in Canberra, Belinda Cay of the Grains Research and Development Corporation of Australia discusses how new crop varieties have improved yields on that continent, including on her own family’s farm.
Youth Ag-Summit: One representative’s perspective
Speaking to those attending the Youth Ag-Summit this week in Canberra, Grainews/Country Guide field editor Lisa Guenther finds a variety of points of view — some typical of certain Canadian ag sectors, others not so much.
Youth Ag-Summit: Granddaughter of the revolution
Grainews/Country Guide field editor Lisa Guenther meets with Norman Borlaug’s granddaughter Julie Borlaug. Norman Borlaug, who died in 2009, is credited with starting the “green revolution” of the 1960s. In this video, the younger Borlaug talks about the activities of the institute that now bears his name — and what she sees as the future […] Read more
Youth Ag-Summit: Mentoring future farmers
Grainews’ Lisa Guenther spoke to organizers at this week’s Youth Ag-Summit in Canberra, Australia about why mentoring future farmers is important — and what they expect the summit’s youth delegates to take away from the event.
‘Megatrends’ expected to move ag sector in future
CNS Canada — Health-conscious customers with money to spend will be looking to purchase more food over the next 20 years, while changing technologies and global economic uncertainty will bring their own challenges. That’s the outlook in a recent report out of Australia, highlighting five megatrends expected to impact the agricultural sector in the coming […] Read more