WASHINGTON - Nov 1/04 - SNS -- The USDA's Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) boosted interest rates for 1995 and prior crop year commodity loans it has disbursed. . . . Continue or visitors click here

SYDNEY - Nov 4/04 - SNS -- Australia's wheat marketing board, AWB Limited set the Nominated Estimated Pool Returns (NEPR) for the 2004-05 AWB Harvest Finance options. . . . Continue or visitors click here

EDMONTON - Nov 5/04 - SNS -- There are three keys to success for farming operations wishing to sell directly to consumers: quality, service and presentation. . . . Continue or visitors click here

OTTAWA - Nov 8/04 - SNS -- The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is inviting public comments on proposed amendments to the Plant Breeders' Rights Act. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WINNIPEG - Nov 8/04 - SNS -- The Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) today announced contract calls for Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS) wheat for the 2004-05 crop year, which take effect today. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Nov 9/04 - SNS -- The USDA designated counties in Georgia, Kansas, Montana and New Jersey as primary agricultural disaster areas. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Nov 15/04 - SNS -- Less farmland and fewer farms are using irrigation in the United States than was the case in 1998, according to the latest USDA survey of the crop management practice. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Nov 15/04 - SNS -- The USDA designated additional counties in Montana and Texas as primary agricultural disaster areas. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WINNIPEG - Nov 16/04 - SNS -- Agricore United and the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool will start marketing so-called "Clearfield" wheat in 2005. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WINNIPEG - Nov 16/04 - SNS -- The Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) announced contract calls for Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS) wheat for the 2004-05 crop year. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Nov 17/04 - SNS -- The USDA issued certificates of protection to developers of nine new varieties of seed-reproduced and tuber-propagated plants. They include clover, bentgrass, lettuce and wheat. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Nov 18/04 - SNS -- USDA researchers have demonstrated using copper oxide wire particles to control internal parasites in small ruminants, such as sheep and goats, is safe and effective when two grams or less are used. . . . Continue or visitors click here

EDMONTON - Nov 18/04 - SNS -- Despite its low energy and poorer digestibility than hay or greenfeed, straw can be an economical addition to winter feed for cattle. . . . Continue or visitors click here

EDMONTON - Nov 18/04 - SNS -- One extension of farm direct marketing is to organize and run on farm fairs and other special events, reminds Alberta Agriculture. . . . Continue or visitors click here

PRINCETON - Nov 18/04 - SNS -- Last week's discovery of Asian soybean rust for the first time in the United States presents powerful challenges to the industry, but is no cause for panic, argues Don Hershman, a plant pathologist with the University of Kentucky College of Agriculture. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WINNIPEG - Nov 18/04 - SNS -- The Canadian grain industry is reminding western Canadian wheat producers to only deliver eligible varieties of milling wheat. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WINNIPEG - Nov 19/04 - SNS -- The Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) opened a contract call for Canada Western Feed (CW Feed) wheat for the 2004-05 crop year. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON Nov 23/04 - SNS -- The USDA designated counties in California, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Washington and Wisconsin as primary agricultural disaster areas. . . . Continue or visitors click here

OTTAWA - Nov 25/04 - SNS -- Higher crop revenues helped lift total farm cash receipts in Canada upward for the first time in three years during the first nine months of 2004, according to Statistics Canada. . . . Continue or visitors click here

OTTAWA - Nov 25/04 - SNS -- Last year was a bad year for Canada's agriculture industry, with net incomes from farming operations sinking to their lowest levels in 25 years on account of back-to-back droughts in 2001 and 2002 and the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) crisis. . . . Continue or visitors click here

BEIJING - Nov 25/04 - SNS -- Average farm incomes in China rose 11.4% during the first nine months of 2004 to 2622.2 yuan or U.S. $316.62. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Nov 30/04 - SNS -- Prices received by farmers in the United States managed a modest improvement in November, rising one point above August to close 114 points, according to the USDA's preliminary All Farm Products Index of Prices Received by Farmers. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Nov 30/04 - SNS -- The cost of fartming inched lower during the past month, with the USDA's November Index of Prices Paid for Commodities and Services, Interest, Taxes, and Farm Wage Rates (PPITW) is 134% of the 1990-92 average. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Nov 30/04 - SNS -- The USDA declared several counties in South Dakota and Texas as primary agricultural disaster areas. . . . Continue or visitors click here

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