NEWS ARCHIVES

March 10, 2010 -As more plant breeders make the transition from university to private sector seed companies, there is a resulting shortage in the US of private sector researchers and plant breeders, mirroring a similar situation that has been taking shape in Canada for much of the past decade.   READ MORE

March 10, 2010 -A report from CBC last month indicates that McCain's will be cutting the contracts and thereby the volume of potatoes it buys from farmer in Prince Edward Island, a move that comes, not in favour of potatoes from other regions, but as a result of declines in the sale of French fries.      READ MORE

March 10, 2010 -Corn will continue to be king, according to Cal Whewell, a well-known and perennial favourite at the Grain Farmers of Ontario annual meeting. Despite a large carryout coming into the spring of 2010, Whewell says the market will continue to push for corn, and for several reasons. 

Mar. 3, 2010 -A government investment of $25 million for agronomic and nutrition research will boost demand and production for Canadian canola producers, as part of a joint Canola/Flax Agri-Science Cluster and Clubroot Risk Mitigation Project, running from April 2010 to March 2013.   READ MORE

Mar. 3, 2010 -The European Commission has announced it has cleared the growth of a genetically modified potato for the European Union, to be used in industrial processes such as making paper or for animal feed, but it is not to be grown for human consumption.     READ MORE

Mar. 3, 2010 -Researchers with Kansas State University and personnel with Monsanto have confirmed a small number of kochia plants on privately owned land in western Kansas to be resistant to glyphosate.  READ MORE

Mar. 3, 2010 -A new study by CropLife America has determined that investments in research and development in the past decade have increased nearly 40 percent, particularly those in the development and registration of new pest and disease prevention products in the US and Europe.   READ MORE

Mar. 3, 2010 -New regulations handed down by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) call for an expanded Renewable Fuels Standard, requiring 1.15 billion gallons of biodiesel to be used in the US by the end of this year.    READ MORE

Mar 3, 2010 -Soybean production in Brazil and Argentina is expected to be substantially larger than in recent years, so much so that US soybean exports are likely to decrease as China looks to the two South American countries to fill their soybean demand.           READ MORE