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Farmers’ debt seen hitting fresh record high

By Reuters, GFM Network News September 7, 2016

Reuters — Canadian farmers’ debt will likely reach another record high this year, while land appreciation slows and incomes flatten, but the industry is still in strong financial shape, the country’s biggest agriculture lender, Farm Credit Canada, forecast on Tuesday. FCC, the federal Crown ag lending agency, sounded a note of caution for farmers, who […] Read more

Crops, Machinery

Diesel prices look to settle in for fall, early winter

By GFM Network News September 6, 2016

CNS Canada — Canadian diesel prices appear to be settling in for a relatively uneventful autumn, according to an industry watcher. “Unless we get a vortex kind of winter, when a lot of diesel is used for heating purposes, I think it’s another cheap autumn-winter scenario shaping up,” said Tom Kloza of the Oil Price […] Read more

Crops

Growmark, FS plan SW Ontario fertilizer store

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News September 6, 2016

Crop supply retail chain FS Partners and its owner, ag co-operative Growmark, plan to put up an expanded fertilizer centre in southwestern Ontario to supply both farmers and other retailers. Growmark announced its plans Wednesday for a new 15,000-tonne capacity facility to be built at Ayr, Ont., about 20 km south of Kitchener. The Illinois-based […] Read more

Syngenta’s Interaction Centre at Stein, Switzerland. (Syngenta.com)

Crops, Reuters

ChemChina extends tender offers for Syngenta

By Reuters, GFM Network News September 6, 2016

Zurich | Reuters — ChemChina on Tuesday extended by almost two months the deadline for Syngenta investors to tender their shares as the Chinese company seeks to complete a US$43 billion takeover of the Swiss pesticides and seeds group. Investors in Basel-based Syngenta now have until Nov. 8 to tender their shares unless this is […] Read more

Crops, Reuters

Bayer sweetens Monsanto bid as talks enter final stretch

By GFM Network News September 6, 2016

Reuters — German pharmaceutical and crops manufacturer Bayer said on Monday that its negotiations with Monsanto had advanced, and that it was now willing to offer more than US$65 billion to acquire the world’s largest seeds company. Bayer’s announcement came as the gap in price expectations between the two companies has narrowed significantly, although important […] Read more

Austria’s Parliament Building, in Vienna. (CIA.gov)

Livestock, Reuters

Austria drops talk of ‘conflict’ over EU-Canada trade deal

By Reuters, GFM Network News September 2, 2016

Vienna | Reuters — Austria toned down its opposition to a free trade deal between the European Union and Canada on Friday, two days after social democrat Chancellor Christian Kern had vowed to start a “conflict” over the agreement. While the so-called CETA accord is all but sealed, the Austrian leader’s opposition reflects concerns widely […] Read more

Crops, Reuters

Fertilizer merger faces easier approval at home than in U.S.

By GFM Network News September 2, 2016

Toronto/Washington | Reuters — Canada’s PotashCorp and Agrium are more likely to win approval for a potential merger in Canada than in the U.S., but U.S. rejection of the deal would scuttle it globally, competition lawyers said. Saskatoon-based PotashCorp and Calgary’s Agrium confirmed Tuesday they were in preliminary merger talks, toward a deal that would […] Read more

LaserAg offers these small cups for soil collection. Sample takers can use LaserAg’s software to determine where to sample. Scanning the bar code on the top of the cup with a smartphone after the sample is taken will automatically record information about the sample, including the exact location. Filled cups can be submitted by mail, and results will be returned electronically within two weeks.

Features

New soil test company on the block

New technology is bringing another way to test the soil on your farm

By Leeann Minogue September 1, 2016

Jacques Nault’s brother Charles Nault first heard about Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) technology at a pharmaceutical conference. “It was presented as a tool to do quality control, to make sure pills contained the right molecules,” Jacques Nault says. As co-founders of LogiAg, an agronomy service and technology firm based in Chateauguay, Quebec, the Nault brothers began imagining how LIBS […] Read more

General, Reuters

Austria expects ‘conflict’ on Canada trade deal

By Reuters, GFM Network News September 1, 2016

Vienna | Reuters — Austria is ready to confront other European Union members states over its opposition to a free trade deal with Canada, Chancellor Christian Kern said, because it sees it containing many of the same problems as one being negotiated with the U.S. Austria opposes a proposed free trade deal with the United […] Read more

Livestock, Reuters

German activists take EU-Canada trade deal to Constitutional Court

By Reuters, GFM Network News August 31, 2016

Berlin | Reuters — Activists delivered what they said was Germany’s biggest-ever public complaint to the Constitutional Court on Wednesday, hoping it will scupper a trade agreement between the European Union and Canada. The deal, which some see as a template for an EU-U.S. agreement still being negotiated, is the EU’s most ambitious trade pact […] Read more

GFM Network News

Russia’s top agriculture official blames low global grain prices for export slowdown

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U.S. grains: Soybeans fall as rapid harvest overshadows China trade hopes

Other fruit-vegetable

Farmers’ debt seen hitting fresh record high

Diesel prices look to settle in for fall, early winter

Growmark, FS plan SW Ontario fertilizer store

ChemChina extends tender offers for Syngenta

Bayer sweetens Monsanto bid as talks enter final stretch

Austria drops talk of ‘conflict’ over EU-Canada trade deal

Fertilizer merger faces easier approval at home than in U.S.

New soil test company on the block

Austria expects ‘conflict’ on Canada trade deal

German activists take EU-Canada trade deal to Constitutional Court

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