OTTAWA - Oct 3/05 - SNS -- Canadian farmland values increased an average 1.6% during the first half of 2005, compared to a 2.2% increase during the last half of 2004, but 0.1% higher than the last half of 2003, according to Farm Credit Canada (FCC). . . . Continue or visitors click here

REGINA - Oct 4/05 - SNS -- Cattle manure is attaining new economic value because of surging fertilizer and gas prices, notes Trevor Lennox, a Forage Industry Development Specialist with Saskatchewan Agriculture and Food. . . . Continue or visitors click here

AMARILLO - Oct 4/05 - SNS -- Farmers in the High Plains region of Texas would be better off growing cowpeas than letting land sit fallow for a year in their current rotations, argues a Texas Agricultural Experiment Station researcher. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Oct 5/05 - SNS -- The USDA designated numerous counties in Texas as primary agriculture disaster areas. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WINNIPEG - Oct 6/05 - SNS -- The Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) announced contract calls for Canada Western Red Spring Wheat (CARS), Canada Prairie Spring Red Wheat (CPSR), Canada Prairie Spring White Wheat (CPSW), and Canada Western Amber Durum Wheat (CWAD) for the 2005-06 crop year. . . . Continue or visitors click here

SYDNEY - Oct 7/05 - SNS -- New semi-leafless field pea varieties could help growers in the state of Western Australia reduce the risk of wind erosion after harvesting. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Oct 14/05 - SNS -- The USDA designated all 75 counties in Arkansas as primary natural disaster areas due to drought and extremely high temperatures that have continued since May 1, 2005. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Oct 17/05 - SNS -- The USDA designated counties in South Dakota and Utah as primary natural disaster areas, making all qualified farm operators eligible for low-interest emergency (EM) loans from the USDA's Farm Service Agency (FSA). . . . Continue or visitors click here

WINNIPEG - Oct 20/05 - SNS -- The Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) issued contract calls for Canada Western Red Spring Wheat (CARS), Canada Western Feed wheat (CW Feed), and Canada Western Amber Durum wheat (CWAD) for the 2005-06 crop year. . . . Continue or visitors click here

DES MOINES - Oct 20/05 - SNS -- Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc., is introducing 22 new M-Series soybean varieties for the 2006 planting season, including ones resistant to soybean cyst nematode (SCN) and Phytophthora root rot as well as tolerance to sudden death syndrome (SDS) and iron chlorosis. . . . Continue or visitors click here

SYDNEY - Oct 21/05 - SNS -- Australia's barley marketing board, ABB Grain Ltd., is expanding the number of categories of storage and grain handling charges assessed against deliveries in an effort to better reflect costs to individual producers. . . . Continue or visitors click here

OTTAWA - Oct 24/05 - SNS -- Prices Canadian farmers received for their commodities was 5% lower in August than during the same month last year, reports Statistics Canada, as dropping crop prices offset small advances in livestock values. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WINNIPEG - Oct 26/05 - SNS -- The Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) will make interim payments on all grades of wheat and durum delivered to the CWB during the 2004-05 crop year, including feed barley delivered into the 2004-05 Pool B. . . . Continue or visitors click here

SYDNEY - Oct 27/05 - SNS -- Australia's wheat marketing board's seed company, AWB Seeds is releasing a new fababean variety called Nura, which features improved resistance to ascochyta, chocolate spot and rust. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Oct 27/05 - SNS -- The USDA designated counties in Oregon and Texas primary natural disaster areas, making all qualified farm operators eligible for low-interest emergency (EM) loans from USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA). . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Oct 27/05 - SNS -- The USDA designated 109 counties in Kentucky as primary natural disaster areas, making all qualified farm operators eligible for low-interest emergency (EM) loans from USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA). . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Oct 28/05 - SNS -- The USDA issued certificates of protection to developers of 21 new varieties of seed-reproduced and tuber-propagated plants. They include cotton, lettuce, pea, peanut, safflower, soybean, and vinca. . . . Continue or visitors click here

SYDNEY - Oct 31/05 - SNS -- The Australian wheat marketing board's seed division, AWB Seeds, released two new kabuli chickpea varieties. . . . Continue or visitors click here

DES MOINES - Oct 31/05 - SNS --The United States Environment Protection Agency (EPA) has approved use of the Herculex XTRA insect protection gene in corn hybrids. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Oct 31/05 - SNS -- Prices received by American farmers declined in October, with the USDA's preliminary All Farm Products Index of Prices Received by Farmers dropping seven points during the month to 110, based on 1990-92=100. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Oct 31/05 - SNS -- October saw prices received by farmers in the United States declined 7% from month earlier levels, while the cost of farming resumed its upward climb, rising 0.7% during the month for a 5.1% annual increase, reports the USDA. . . . Continue or visitors click here

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