REGINA - Oct 6/03 - SNS -- In an effort to accommodate the growing interest of producer grain cars, the Saskatchewan Grain Car Corporation (SGCC) has been working with farms across the province to help make car loading convenient for producers and efficient for railways. . . . Continue or visitors click here

TORONTO - Oct 10/03 - SNS -- CropLife Canada disputes comments made by Johanne Gelinas, Canada's Commissioner of the Environment, claiming her report and subsequent media coverage give an inaccurate picture of pesticide safety. . . . Continue or visitors click here

INDIANAPOLIS - Oct 16/03 - SNS -- Pork producers are more actively challenging assertions made by the Waterkeeper's Alliance, arguing the organization is using scare tactics to fuel a fundraising campaign which aims to put some segments of American agriculture out of business. . . . Continue or visitors click here

SYDNEY - Oct 20/03 - SNS -- The seeds division of the Australian Wheat Board, AWB Seeds, has released a new malting barley variety for high rainfall areas of New South Wales, South Australia and Victoria. . . . Continue or visitors click here

OTTAWA - Oct 21/03 - SNS -- Not only do rural Canadians have a less favorable view of their health than urban Canadians, they have clearly adopted less healthy lifestyles. . . . Continue or visitors click here

EDMONTON - Oct 21/03 - SNS -- Livestock feeds do have "best before" dates and the length of time producers have between the time grains and roughages are harvested and must be used depends on how they were harvested, processed and stored. . . . Continue or visitors click here

EDMONTON - Oct 21/03 - SNS -- Alberta Agriculture is putting more effort into encouraging direct marketing by farm producers in the province as a way of allowing individuals producers to add value to their primary production, thereby increasing gross revenue to their businesses. . . . Continue or visitors click here

REGINA - Oct 21/03 - SNS -- Canadian farmland values have marched relentlessly upward through the first half of 2003, according to an analysis by Farm Credit Canada's Farmland Values Report. . . . Continue or visitors click here

DES MOINES - Oct 27/03 - SNS -- Almost 200 varieties of corn products, from Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc., have been identified for use in their new Pioneer IndustrySelect program. . . . Continue or visitors click here

OTTAWA - Oct 29/03 - SNS -- Average prices to agricultural producers sank in August, pushing the Farm Product Price Index (FPPI) to 94.1 points, down 2.0% from July 2003 and 12.5% below August of 2002. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON Oct 31/03 - MFB -- The American Farm Bureau Federation, 13 state Farm Bureaus including the Michigan Farm Bureau, and other agricultural groups filed a motion last week for full party defendant status in the atrazine case of Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), et al. The suit is being heard in the U.S. District Court for the district of Maryland in Baltimore. . . . Continue or visitors click here

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