WASHINGTON - Mar 1/04 - SNS -- The USDA's Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) set the interest rate for 1995 and prior crop year commodity loans it disbursed at 1.250% during March, unchanged from February 2004. . . . Continue or visitors click here

SYDNEY - Mar 2/04 - SNS -- Australian researchers are working to unlock the problem of Annual Ryegrass Toxicity (ARGT). . . . Continue or visitors click here

WINNIPEG - Mar 2/04 - SNS -- Wolf Trax's new zinc micronutrient formulation has received registration approval for use in Canada. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Mar 2/04 - SNS -- The USDA issued certificates of protection to developers of 20 new plant varieties, including cotton, fescue, pea, rice, safflower, tobacco and wheat. . . . Continue or visitors click here

SYDNEY - Mar 3/04 - SNS -- The Australian Wheat Board (AWB) expressed disappointment with the results of the first payment of this season's basis pool, saying the poor performance relative to other years reflects a weaker market for white wheat than some other classes. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WINNIPEG - Mar 4/04 - SNS -- Six new varieties of grain available through Agricore United's Proven Seed were approved by the Prairie Registration Recommending Committee for Grain (PRRCG). . . . Continue or visitors click here

SYDNEY - Mar 5/04 - SNS -- Australian trials of new varieties of water-efficient wheat are promising, say researchers with CSIRO. . . . Continue or visitors click here

OTTAWA - Mar 8/04 - SNS -- Prices received by Canadian farmers were generally lower in December, slipping below levels prevailing in November of 2003 and plunging beneath prices which prevailed in December of 2002. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Mar 8/04 - SNS -- USDA researchers have found using a chisel plow during fall tillage will maintain surface residue and minimize soil disturbance, which in turn will reduce carbon dioxide loss. . . . Continue or visitors click here

REGINA - Mar 8/04 - SNS -- There is a greater need to boost forage yields this year in Canada to account for the larger number of cattle on feed on farms in the country, says Todd Jorgenson, a rangeland and forage agrologist with Saskatchewan Agriculture, Food and Rural Revitalization in Yorkton. . . . Continue or visitors click here

REGINA - Mar 8/04 - SNS -- Timing seems to be more important than how fertilizer is applied, suggests results of a three-year project that compared the agronomic performance, energy use and nitrous oxide emissions from a variety of nitrogen fertilizer managements at four different soil-climatic zones in Saskatchewan. . . . Continue or visitors click here

SYDNEY - Mar 9/04 - SNS -- Lentil growers in the state of Western Australia can now freely trade Cassab red lentil seed among themselves now that the seed licence contract for the variety has expired. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Mar 9/04 - SNS -- The USDA issued certificates of protection to developers of 10 new varieties of seed-reproduced and tuber-propagated plants, including corn, pea, potato, rice, soybean and wheat. . . . Continue or visitors click here

EDMONTON - Mar 9/04 - SNS -- Agricultural producers who are no longer interested in getting generic returns from their crops need to change both their approach to marketing what they produce and decided what to produce. . . . Continue or visitors click here

REGINA - Mar 11/04 - SNS -- Saskatchewan Highways & Transportation reminds truckers, farmers and any drivers carrying heavy loads about the spring road bans that are now in effect in some areas of the province. . . . Continue or visitors click here

GUELPH - Mar 15/04 - SNS --The Bank of Montreal and Farm Associated Risk Management Services Corporation (ACC Farms) are offering farmers low interest loans to help them roll money into the Canadian Agricultural Income Stabilization (CAIS) program, butstill pay down higher interest rate debt. . . . Continue or visitors click here

REGINA - Mar 16/04 - SNS -- Areas of Saskatchewan reporting cabbage seedpod weevil (CSPW) infestations are spreading into the main canola and mustard seed producing areas of the province, although not in economically significant numbers. . . . Continue or visitors click here

REGINA- Mar 16/04 - SNS -- Levels of trace minerals such as copper and manganese, which play a vital role in the function of an important nervous system protein called the prion, do not appear to have any direct impact on an animal's susceptibility to chronic wasting disease (CWD). . . . Continue or visitors click here

EDMONTON - Mar 17/04 - SNS -- It turns out that farmers markets are a powerful way to increase tourism in rural areas, with the Canadian province of Alberta reporting they have become the "number one agri tourism attraction in the province. . . . Continue or visitors click here

EDMONTON - Mar 17/04 - SNS -- Alberta Agriculture reminds agricultural producers that if they are better prepared for their annual visit with their tax accountant and arrive with more organized records, they can often take better advantage of the accountants knowledge of the income tax system. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Mar 18/04 - SNS -- Several counties in California, Massachusetts, New York and Washington were designated as primary agricultural disaster areas by the USDA. . . . Continue or visitors click here

FARGO - Mar 18/04 - SNS -- North Dakota's agriculture department and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have approved an herbicide and a fungicide for use on sugarbeets this year. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Mar 19/04 - SNS -- The USDA named several counties in Colorado, Maine, Texas and Washington state which are considered primary agricultural disaster areas. . . . Continue or visitors click here

SYDNEY - Mar 22/04 - SNS -- Including a pulse such as vetch into crop rotations have a clear, positive impact on cotton lint yields, according to a team of researchers at CSIRO Plant Industry. . . . Continue or visitors click here

OTTAWA - Mar 22/04 - SNS -- With the exception of specialty crops and vegetables, agricultural commodity values were slightly higher during January, with the result the Canadian Farm Product Price Index (FPPI) rose 1.8% from its December value. . . . Continue or visitors click here

LETHBRIDGE - Mar 22/04 - SNS -- Canada's cattle industry will receive the lion's share of the $995 million dollar assistance package unveiled by the Canadian government here today. . . . Continue or visitors click here

REGINA - Mar 22/04 - SNS -- Downsizing their 1,500 acres grain farm to 250 and switching to fresh vegetables has allowed the Plummer farm near Saskatoon to turn its first good profit in many years. . . . Continue or visitors click here

REGINA - Mar 22.04 - SNS -- Researchers are gaining a better understanding of why copper deficiency develops in some cattle as part of a series of projects supported by the Agriculture Development Fund (ADF). . . . Continue or visitors click here

LANSING - Mar 26/04 - MFB -- Farmers looking for ways to steel themselves against inevitable price increases will have to move fast if they're in the market for steel-based products. . . . Continue or visitors click here

GUELPH - Mar 26/04 - SNS -- Efforts by the Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) to link the use of manufactured chemicals with cancer rates has angered a farm group in Ontario, which has taken the unusual step of attacking the messenger -- the newswire service Canadian Press (CP). . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Mar 26/04 - SNS -- The USDA has designated counties in Connecticut, Hawaii, Oregon and Texas as primary agricultural disaster areas. . . . Continue or visitors click here

REGINA - Mar 29/04 - SNS -- Canadian farmland values rose an average 1.5% during the last half of 2003, with average values up in all provinces except Newfoundland, according to data assembled by Farm Credit Canada (FCC). . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Mar 30/04 - SNS -- Aggregate farm product values reached record levels during the past month, with the preliminary All Farm Products Index of Prices Received by Farmers hitting 122 in March, six points (5.2%) above the February Index. . . . Continue or visitors click here

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