REGINA - Feb 2/04 - SNS -- The first survey in 40 years of wheat stem sawfly populations reveals most wheat growing areas in Saskatchewan will face problems with the pest this year. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Feb 2/04 - SNS -- The USDA's Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) has set the interest rate for 1995 and prior crop year commodity loans disbursed at 1.250% during February, down from 1.375% in January 2004. . . . Continue or visitors click here

CANBERRA - Feb 5/04 -- Unusually high rates of subterranean clover stunt virus (SCSV), a potentially serious disease, were discovered in Australian fababeans during last year's disease surveys. . . . Continue or visitors click here

SYDNEY - Feb 6/04 - SNS -- The Australian Barley marketing board, ABB Grain Ltd., is making another distribution of funds realized from its 2002-03 marketing pools. . . . Continue or visitors click here

FARGO - Feb 6/04 - SNS -- The North Dakota State University (NDSU) Agricultural Experiment Station released two soybean varieties -- a transgenic soybean variety named RG405RR and a non-transgenic soybean named LaMoure. . . . Continue or visitors click here

SOUTH PERTH - Feb 9/04 - SNS - There can always be a drawback to better farming, and this time it is a great increase in lupin anthracnose infections. . . . Continue or visitors click here

OTTAWA - Feb 10/04 - SNS -- Canada's farming community has a strong feeling the economic numbers released by Statistics Canada for 2003 will be the last good year for that sector of the Canadian economy for several years. . . . Continue or visitors click here

REGINA - Feb 10/04 - SNS -- Farm families are often the recipients of letters and email messages encouraging them to buy catalogues or directories that list grants, programs and services offered by federal and provincial governments. . . . Continue or visitors click here

REGINA - Feb 10/04 - SNS -- Trials involving the Pesticide Free Production (PFP) production system have migrated from Manitoba to Saskatchewan and the economic analysis of the first trials at South East Research Farm at Redvers are nearly complete. . . . Continue or visitors click here

REGINA - Feb 10/04 - SNS -- Canadian cattle producers are feeding more than calves than usual this winter because of continuing bans on imports of Canadian beef and cattle in all major trading regions. . . . Continue or visitors click here

EDMONTON - Feb 11/04 - SNS -- Alberta Agriculture strongly reminds agricultural producers who are enhancing incomes and sales opportunities by getting involved with farm direct marketing need to put a high emphasis on customer service to make sure they stand out from the crowd and earn repeat business and referrals. . . . Continue or visitors click here

SYDNEY - Feb 12/04 - SNS -- Barley growers the mid-north and south-east of South Australia will have access to seed for the Lofty Nijo malting barley variety for the 2004-05 season. . . . Continue or visitors click here

SASKATOON - Feb 13/04 - SNS -- Canadian researchers are stepping up efforts to unravel the complexities of Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) in hopes they will soon offer growers resistant varieties and other tools to help control the plant disease, says the Western Grains Research Foundation. . . . Continue or visitors click here

REGINA - Feb 17/04 - SNS -- Researchers with Saskatchewan Agriculture said results from a project in the province's north east shows oats are a good choice for annual pasture. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Feb 19/04 - SNS -- USDA researchers are seeking alternatives to burning straw that remains after harvesting grass seed, such as chopping up straw or turning it into an on-farm source of fuel. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WINNIPEG - Feb 23/04 - SNS -- Agricore United is contracts to grow the Proven Seed 5700PR wheat variety across all of western Canada. . . . Continue or visitors click here

REGINA - Feb 23/04 - SNS -- Trials growing and using turnips as a forage have over-turned previous recommendations in western Canada and Saskatchewan Agriculture and Food is now saying producer should consider this old world crop. . . . Continue or visitors click here

REGINA - Feb 23/04 - SNS -- Strong management practices during the first two weeks of a calf's life will greatly improve its chances of survival, reminds Naomi Paley, livestock agrologist with Saskatchewan Agriculture, Food and Rural Revitalization in Yorkton. . . . Continue or visitors click here

OTTAWA - Feb 24/04 - SNS -- Farm cash receipts reached their lowest point in three years in 2003 as agricultural producers in Canada struggled with the impact of mad cow disease on cattle incomes, limited availability of crops to sell during the first half of the year and lower prices during the second half. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Feb 25/04 - SNS -- The USDA began issuing the second counter-cyclical program payments for 2003-crop . . . Continue or visitors click here

EDMONTON - Feb 27/04 - SNS -- Alberta Agriculture reminds livestock producers that while calf scours can result in large financial losses, there are steps that can be taken that can reduce its impact. . . . Continue or visitors click here

EDMONTON - Feb 27/04 - SNS -- Calf producers need to make sure new born calves get enough colostrum or the first milk from their mothers within the first few hours of birth in order to help the calf to survive, stresses Alberta Agriculture. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Feb 27/04 - SNS -- The farm products price index in the United States rose two points in February, reaching a preliminary 113 points, according to the USDA. . . . Continue or visitors click here

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WASHINGTON - Feb 27/04 - SNS -- The number of farms in the United States barely changed in 2003, finishing the year at an estimated 2.13 million, 0.4% fewer than in 2002, according to the USDA. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WINNIPEG - Feb 27/04 - SNS -- The Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) tweaked its Fixed Price Contracts (FPC) and Basis Payment Contracts (BPC) in hopes of making the contracts easier for growers to use. . . . Continue or visitors click here

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