WASHINGTON - Dec 1/04 - SNS -- The USDA increased interest rates charged on Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) commodity loans. . . . Continue or visitors click here

DES MOINES - Dec 2/04 - SNS -- Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc., is introducing 19 new Pioneer brand soybean varieties, including ones with resistance to soybean cyst nematode (SCN) and Phytophthora root rot as well as tolerance to sudden death syndrome (SDS), iron chlorosis, brown stem rot (BSR) and white mold. . . . Continue or visitors click here

EDMONTON - Dec 2/04 - SNS -- Marketing any crop, but this year's western Canadian wheat crop starts with knowing exactly what you have in your bins, stressed Alberta Agriculture. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Dec 2/04 - SNS -- The USDA set 2005 loan rates for wheat, barley, oats and other oilseeds -- the earliest date that USDA has announced the marketing assistance loan rates for these commodities. . . . Continue or visitors click here

OTTAWA - Dec 3/04 - SNS -- Canada's farm product price index (FPPI) slipped in September, but remained above year earlier levels, according to preliminary calculations by Statistics Canada. . . . Continue or visitors click here

OTTAWA - Dec 3/04 - SNS -- The cost of running farm businesses in Canada grew faster than income in 2003, resulting in the lowest operating margins for farmers since at least 1990, according to tax records analyzed by Statistics Canada. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WINNIPEG - Dec 6/04 - SNS -- The Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) updated its contract calls for Canada Western Red Spring Wheat (CWRS) wheat for the 2004-05 crop year. . . . Continue or visitors click here

SYDNEY - Dec 9/04 - SNS -- ABB Grain will pay a A$5 per metric ton (MT) premium for No 1 grade malting quality deliveries of Baudin barley across the 2004-05 season in South Australia and Victoria. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Dec 9/04 - SNS -- The USDA issued certificates of protection to developers of 14 new varieties of seed-reproduced and tuber-propagated plants. They include corn, rice and peanut. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Dec 9/04 - SNS -- The USDA designated counties in Oregon, South Dakota, Texas and Wyoming as primary agricultural disaster areas. . . . Continue or visitors click here

SYDNEY - Dec 13/04 - SNS -- Australia's Grains Research and Development Corporation and Pulse Australia hope to start launching new pulse varieties with a variety management package (VMP) to make it easier for growers to start producing crops from the new seeds. . . . Continue or visitors click here

OTTAWA - Dec 14/04 - SNS -- Canada's Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry says expanding value added activities in Canadian agriculture should be a priority for the country. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Dec 14/04 - SNS -- The USDA designated Jeff Davis County in Texas as a primary agricultural disaster areas due to because of losses that occurred from Jan. 1, 2004, and continuing that were caused by drought, excessive temperatures and winds. . . . Continue or visitors click here

DES MOINES - Dec 20/04 - SNS -- European corn borer (ECB) numbers and the damage caused were down across the U.S. Corn Belt this year and the outlook is for further reductions in 2005 because of low overwintering populations. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WINNIPEG - Dec 20/04 - SNS -- The Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) announced contract calls for Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS) wheat, Canada Western Feed (CW Feed) wheat and Canada Western Durum (CWAD) wheat for the 2004-05 crop year. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON Dec 21/04 - SNS -- The USDA designated additional counties in Texas and Virginia as primary agricultural disaster areas. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WINNIPEG - Dec 23/04 - SNS -- The Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) has named varieties eligible for its 2005-06 Identity Preserved Contract Program (IPCP). The IPCP, formally called the Market Development Contract Program (MDCP), offers incentives to farmerswho are interested in cultivating new varieties of wheat, durum and barley. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Dec 29/04 - SNS -- Farmers in the United States are paying more for inputs and services than they were at this time last year, according to the USDA's December Index of Prices Paid for Commodities and Services, Interest, Taxes, and Farm Wage Rates (PPITW). . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Dec 29/04 - SNS -- Agriculture commodity prices came under pressure during the past month in the United States, resulting in a three point decline in the USDA's All Farm Products Index of Prices Received by Farmers in December to a preliminary estimate of 112, based on 1990-92=100. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WINNIPEG - Dec 30/04 - SNS -- Four directors were elected to the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) in elections held in four districts in western Canada. . . . Continue or visitors click here

GREENSBORO - Dec 31/04 - SNS -- Syngenta's Cruiser seed treatment insecticide has been approved for use on soybeans, dry edible beans, field peas, succulent beans, sweet corn and potatoes by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). It can already be used on barley, corn, cotton, green beans, sorghum, sunflowers and wheat. . . . Continue or visitors click here

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