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Agrium to shed California UAN plant

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff April 24, 2015

Fertilizer and ag retail firm Agrium plans to sell off its fertilizer upgrading plant in northern California. The Calgary company announced Thursday it “intends to divest” the West Sacramento plant sometime this year. On average, over the past couple of years, the plant has produced about 200,000 tonnes of nitrogen solution products, Agrium said. Agrium […] Read more

Aerial view of Lac-Megantic after the July 2013 derailment and explosion that killed 47 people. (TSB.gc.ca)

Crops, Machinery, Reuters

Canada to set new speed limits on dangerous goods trains

By Reuters April 23, 2015

Updated April 25, 2015 — Ottawa | Reuters — Canada will immediately impose a new speed limit of 65 kilometres per hour for dangerous goods trains moving through urban areas with more than 100,000 people, Transport Minister Lisa Raitt said Thursday. This is one of many measures the Conservative government has introduced since the July […] Read more

Corn, Crops, Machinery, Markets, Soybeans

Brazil farm belt roads blocked in new trucker strike

By Gustavo Bonato April 23, 2015

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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Daily price limits revised for CBOT grains futures

By Reuters April 23, 2015

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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U.S. grains: Soybeans up on trucker strike worry

By Karl Plume April 23, 2015

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures snapped two sessions of declines and climbed to the highest in 2-1/2 weeks on concerns that labour strikes in South America could limit supplies to ports during the peak export season in Brazil and Argentina. Truckers in Brazil began to block roads across the country’s main farm belt […] Read more

Crops, Markets

Canola down, wheat up in StatsCan’s first acreage estimates

By Phil Franz-Warkentin April 23, 2015

CNS Canada –– Canadian farmers intend to seed a bit more wheat and a bit less canola this spring compared to a year ago, according to the first survey estimates from Statistics Canada. However, adjustments are likely in subsequent reports, while weather over the growing season will become more important in determining actual production. “There’s […] Read more

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Radish to the rescue

The last seven-inch rain reduced Elmy's cover crop options to one – Tillage Radish

By Debbie Furber April 22, 2015

Seven inches of rain in one shot late last June left Kevin Elmy with little choice but to throw out the notion of generating income off some of his land that year. Instead, he planted the waterlogged fields to Tillage Radish in hopes of at least conditioning the land. Elmy’s Friendly Acres Seed Farm near […] Read more

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DuPont to buy microbiome firm, seek edge in emerging crop products

By Carey Gillam April 22, 2015

Reuters — DuPont is buying a California-based microbiome discovery company for development of biological crop products, a move that the chemical and crop company hopes will give it an edge in an emerging agricultural market. DuPont’s announcement on Wednesday didn’t disclose how much it is paying for Taxon Biosciences, but said the 15-year-old company brings […] Read more

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CN, CP book higher grain revenues in Q1

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff April 22, 2015

A bump in gross revenue from grain handling helped to improve first-quarter results for both of Canada’s big two railways. Canadian National Railway (CN) on Monday reported overall net income of $704 million on $3.098 billion in revenue for the quarter ending March 31, up from $623 million on $2.693 billion in the year-earlier period. […] Read more

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EU proposes GM opt-out for members, angers pro- and anti-GM camps

By philip-blenkinsop April 22, 2015

Brussels | Reuters — The European Commission proposed on Wednesday a new law allowing individual EU countries to restrict or prohibit imported genetically modified crops even if they have been approved by the bloc as a whole. The proposal covering GM crops in human food and animal feed upset trading partners, notably the U.S., which […] Read more

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Agrium to shed California UAN plant

Canada to set new speed limits on dangerous goods trains

Brazil farm belt roads blocked in new trucker strike

Daily price limits revised for CBOT grains futures

U.S. grains: Soybeans up on trucker strike worry

Canola down, wheat up in StatsCan’s first acreage estimates

Radish to the rescue

DuPont to buy microbiome firm, seek edge in emerging crop products

CN, CP book higher grain revenues in Q1

EU proposes GM opt-out for members, angers pro- and anti-GM camps

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