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Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Weekly Outlook: Pressure for 2009 Growing SeasonUS - The USDA’s 31 March Prospective Plantings report revealed producer intentions to reduce corn acreage and to marginally increase soybean acreage in 2009. That report pointed to the potential...
Thursday, March 26, 2009
DDGS Offers Potential in Swine RationsCANADA - Research underway at the University of Manitoba suggests distillers dried grains with solubles have the potential to play an important role in swine nutrition, writes Bruce Cochrane.
Joules Before SwineUS - Family pig farms used to be as much a part of the old South as homemade sausage and red-eye gravy. What's left of swine farming in the Southeast today, however, has gone corporate — generating larger...
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Weekly Roberts ReportUS - Agricultural US Commodity Market Report by Mike Roberts, Commodity Marketing Agent, Virginia Tech.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Tools to Target DDGS to Swine Nutrient RequirementsCANADA - Research being conducted at the University of Manitoba will help swine nutritionists better target the nutrients contained in the by-products of ethanol production to the nutritional requirements...
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Nutritional Contents of DDGS CharacterisedCANADA - Research underway at the University of Manitoba will help livestock nutritionists maximize the nutritional value of the by-products of ethanol production, writes Bruce Cochrane.
Weekly Outlook: Corn ConsumptionUS - The USDA’s updated projections of consumption of US corn during the current marketing year serve as a reminder of the central role that market size will play over the next several months, writes...
Saturday, March 14, 2009
Market Preview: Patience – Spring is Coming!US - Weekly US Market Preview provided by Steve R. Meyer, Ph.D., Paragon Economics, Inc.
Thursday, March 12, 2009
NPPC Attacks Ethanol Support MeasuresUS - The National Pork Producers Council is to oppose US government moves giving extra support to the production of ethanol from corn and to ethanol producers.
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
New Production Technologies Improve DDGS QualityCANADA - Researchers with the University of Manitoba are finding new technologies for producing ethanol from grain results in higher quality co-products, writes Bruce Cochrane.
All Star Lineup Wows NFU ConventionUS - Attendees to the 2009 National Farmers Union Convention heard from an outstanding line-up of policy makers, including Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary...
Tuesday, March 03, 2009
Soybean Oil Reduces Carbon Footprint in Swine BarnsUS - One of agriculture's most versatile crops could one day play a role in combating climate change, Purdue University research shows.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
NFU AGM REPORT - New Task Force for Pig IndustryUK - The British government is to set up a new task force aimed at securing the future of the UK's pig meat industry.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Weekly Outlook: Acreage and BiofuelsUS - Corn and soybean prices over the next several months will be influenced by several factors, writes Darrel Good, Extension Economist at the University of Illinois.
Friday, February 06, 2009
Shortage of Feed Cause for Anxiety in CanadaCANADA - Research conducted at the George Morris Centre, in Guelph, Ontario, shows the US "green" policy of increasing ethanol production could...
Thursday, February 05, 2009
CSREES Find Green Waste Management ProcessUS - Animal waste has always been a great potential source of bioenergy and a natural fertilizer, but finding a green waste management process has been problematic.
Tuesday, February 03, 2009
New Pig Farm Creates Job OpportunitiesNEW ZEALAND - Kereone pig farmer Ken McIntyre is about a month out from pinning down a new site for a larger piggery that will expand his business five-fold and create up to 30 new jobs.
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Study: Indiana Livestock Can't Consume all DDGSINDIANA, US - Indiana ethanol plants could produce enough of a livestock feed ingredient for Hoosier farmers to feed their animals three times over, a Purdue University study suggests.
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
New Opportunities for Biofuels and Livestock SectorCANADA - The Government of Canada is creating new economic opportunities in rural Canada by investing $6 million in the Feed Opportunities from the BioFuels Industries (FOBI) research network that will...
Monday, January 26, 2009
Industries Seek Roadmap for Export CompetitivenessCANADA - If the Canadian pork industry wants to know where the US pork industry is going, watch the US dollar and the energy market, says a leading pork industry economist who spoke at the Banff Pork Seminar,...
Pork Consumption Grows Despite DifficultiesNEW ZEALAND - “The most difficult of the last 30 years” is how Chris Trengrove describes 2008 in New Zealand Pork’s recently released Annual Report. “Biofuels, a commodity boom, drought, losses,...
Monday, January 19, 2009
Which Fields are Best for Ag Production?DENMARK - Should a field be sown with grain for feeding pigs? Or should it be covered with willow for energy? Or dotted with grazing sheep? How a field should be used most sensibly varies when not only...
Monday, January 12, 2009
Economic Crisis Creates Positive Ag Spin-OffCANADA - Informa Economics reports lower transportation and input costs resulting from the current global economic slowdown are creating some positive spin-off for agriculture, writes Bruce Cochrane.
Friday, January 02, 2009
DDGS Granted First-ever Clearance in AustraliaAUSTRALIA - Australia’s first imported sample of US distiller’s dried grains with solubles (DDGS), a co-product of US ethanol production, successfully cleared inspections after arriving at the Port...
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Anaerobic Digestion Boost to Energy ProductionUK - The Environment Agency's decision to revise its regulatory position on the waste status of anaerobic digestate produced from farm-based inputs is a victory for common sense and a welcome boost to...
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
NSW Government Alarms Aussie Pig FarmersAUSTRALIA - Australian Pork Limited (APL), the national body representing Australian pig farmers, is extremely concerned by the NSW Government’s proposal to triple its ethanol fuel mandate for E10 petrol...
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Potential Benefits for Ethanol, Paper and FeedUS - Cellulose is a key component of plant cell walls that can be converted into ethanol and other products. New findings from the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) could help make that conversion process...
Wednesday, December 03, 2008
NZ Pork Industry to Turn Waste into BiogasNEW ZEALAND - A new project launched yesterday (2 December 2008) will look at the potential to turn pig manure on New Zealand farms into energy, significantly reducing harmful greenhouse gas (GHG) emi...
Thursday, November 27, 2008
USGC: US DDGS More Than Just Livestock FeedUS - From a fish farm in Vietnam to a pet shop in Mexico, US distiller’s dried grains with solubles (DDGS), a co-product of U.S. ethanol production, has been making inroads into non-traditional feed markets...
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Value of Manure: Both Fertiliser and Biofuel in NINORTHERN IRELAND - Manures produced by housed farm livestock in Northern Ireland are a valuable resource both as a plant fertiliser and as a source of renewable energy.
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