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Floods in Argentina expected to cause soy crop losses

By Reuters, GFM Network News March 5, 2015

Buenos Aires | Reuters –– Some of Argentina’s northern soy-growing areas were flooded by heavy rains in the past week, the Buenos Aires Grains Exchange said Thursday, warning that it may lower its 57 million-tonne 2014-15 harvest forecast in the coming weeks. The country is the world’s No. 3 soybean exporter and top supplier of […] Read more

Crops, Soybeans

Soybeans to see continued growth in Saskatchewan

By GFM Network News March 5, 2015

CNS Canada — Soybeans are a relatively new crop in Saskatchewan, but are generating more traction and are expected to increase their footprint in 2015. Saskatchewan farmers planted 270,000 acres of soybeans in 2014, nearly double the previous year, according to Statistics Canada data. “We’re expecting soybean acres to rise again,” said Carl Potts, executive […] Read more

Crops, Reuters, Soybeans

Argentina tracks soy hoarding by registering silo bag sales

By GFM Network News March 2, 2015

Buenos Aires | Reuters — Argentina will keep an eye on how much soy is being hoarded on farms throughout the country by requiring that the sales of silo bags be reported to tax authorities, according to a government resolution announced Monday. The oblong industrial-strength plastic bags have come to dot the Pampas grains belt […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters

Brazil warns of fines for striking truckers

By Reuters, GFM Network News February 26, 2015

Brasilia | Reuters –– Brazil’s Justice Minister Jose Eduardo Cardozo said Thursday the government would impose fines of between 5,000 and 10,000 reais (C$2,167 to $4,334) per hour on striking truckers who have blocked roads in key agricultural states for nine days. The planned fines come a day after the government attempted to negotiate an […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Soybeans, Weather

Soybeans’ potential seen growing on Prairies

By GFM Network News February 25, 2015

Winnipeg | CNS Canada — Soybean acres in Canada — particularly Western Canada — are expected to be on the rise, according to an analyst. “I’m basing that on new varieties as well as price,” Chris Beckman, oilseeds analyst for the grains and oilseeds division of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, told the annual Wild Oats […] Read more

Features, Soybeans

Soybean sudden death

Sudden death syndrome has not yet been found in  the Canadian Prairies, but vigilance can’t hurt

By Michael Flood January 23, 2015

Soybeans are one of Canada’s major pulse crops. As new shorter-season varieties are developed, the soybean-growing area is increasing. All the more reason to be vigilant for new and emerging threats like Sudden Death Syndrome. Sudden Death Syndrome (or SDS) in soybeans is a relatively new fungal disease, first discovered in Arkansas in 1971. In […] Read more

Crops, Soybeans

Pearce: Monsanto’s next-gen weed control trait on deck

By Ralph Pearce, GFM Network News January 23, 2015

The question has been asked time and again for the past three or four years: when will we see Monsanto’s Xtend technology in Canada? The answer has been wrapped up in a long list of concerns and government procedure, but the first glint of opportunity for growers has cleared the next-to-last of a series hurdles. […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters, Soybeans

Argentina’s ‘Soy King’ abdicates in favor of biotech

By GFM Network News January 16, 2015

Buenos Aires | Reuters –– The company that led the breakneck expansion of Argentine soy cultivation over the last two decades has quietly reduced the area it farms by more than half as inflation, trade restrictions and high taxes drain growers’ profits. Los Grobo, once known as the South American country’s “King of Soy” has […] Read more

Corn, Crops, Markets, Reuters, Soybeans

Brazil says key soy road won’t be paved until 2016

By Reuters, GFM Network News January 13, 2015

Brasilia | Reuters –– An important road for soy and corn shipments linking to ports in northern Brazil will not be paved until 2016, the country’s transport minister said on Tuesday. President Dilma Rousseff said last year that the highway, known as BR-163, would be ready by mid-2015 as the government tries to relieve crowded […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters, Soybeans

Argentina denounces farmer soy hoarding, says hurts state income

By GFM Network News January 9, 2015

Buenos Aires | Reuters — Argentine growers hoarding soybeans to protect themselves from inflation are hurting both state and farm income in the world’s No. 3 exporter of the oilseed, a top government official said Thursday. The South American country pioneered the use of plastic horizontal silos to stockpile grains. Growers are hanging onto soybeans, […] Read more

Daily Network News

Complexity of being a woman in farming can lead to mental, physical health risks

Federal gov. funds youth employment in agriculture, agri-food

Pulse Weekly: StatCan projects fewer pea and lentil acres

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