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Cellulose efficiency to surpass corn-based ethanol
Recent studies by the United States Department of Agriculture and the University of Nebraska found the cellulose feed stocks can produce up to 540 percent more energy than is consumed by their production. Growers in Nebraska and the Dakotas participated in the five year study, planting switchgrass and keeping records on fuel and inputs costs.

Balance sheet for Ag up slightly, cash flow down
According to figures from Statistics Canada, farm sector equity across the country increased 1.6 percent in 2006, to $192.9 billion. Farm assets also rose 2.1 percent to $241.0 billion, with the value of farm real estate accounting for nearly two thirds of the increase. At the same time, the federal agency reports cash flow decreased by 9.2 percent to $7.2 billion.

Bayer CropScience awards university scholarships

Ten students of the University of Saskatchewan have received $1000 each as part of a three year program from Bayer CropScience and InVigor hybrid canola. The 2007 winners were announced recently, to students currently enrolled in second or third year studies at the College of Agriculture and Bioresources. The program will continue for two more years.

CAFTA elects new president and vice president
The Canadian Agri-Food Trade Alliance (CAFTA) announces the election of Darcy Davis as its president and Rick White as vice president. Davis is a producer from Acme, Alberta while White operates a grain farm near Oxbow, Saskatchewan and is also director of policy development for the Canadian Canola Growers' Association.

Plan now for fertilizer needs
No matter the source, all nitrogen-based fertilizers are in high demand, with tight supplies. According to Dale Leikam, Kansas State University research and extension specialist, the time is now to be talking to inputs dealers and suppliers. In fact, in some states, the supply is already accounted for, regardless of posted prices.

Seed innovators need a signal on KVD
Members of the Canadian Seed Trade Association (CSTA) are urging the federal Agriculture Minister to eliminate Kernal Visual Distinguishability (KVD) as a requirement for the registration of all western wheat varieties for 2008. According to Jeff Reid, first vice president of the CSTA, the move would enable registration of more wheat varieites for western Canadian growers, and parallel conditions that have existed in Ontario where KVD was eliminated in 1989.

Saskatchewan the new boom province

Albertans are going to have to learn to share the limelight when it comes to economic booms, according to C.M. Williams, president of Saskatchewan Agrivision Corporation. This particular boom period has come as a result of world demand for the wealth of commodities that the prairie province boasts, including potash, uranium and agricultural commodities.

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