WASHINGTON - Sep 1/04 - SNS -- The interest rate for 1995 and prior crop year commodity loans disbursed by USDA’s Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) during September 2004 is 2.000%, down from 2.125% in August 2004. . . . Continue or visitors click here

OTTAWA - Sep 1/904 - SNS -- Two varieties of Clearfield wheat and a one lentil submitted by BASF have been approved for unconfined release in Canada by Canadian Food Inspection Agency's (CFIA) Plant Biosafety Office and the Feed Section. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Sep 1/04 - SNS -- The USDA issued certificates of protection to developers of nine new varieties of seed-reproduced and tuber-propagated plants. They include Bermuda grass, bluegrass, rice, soybean, and wheat. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Sep 3/04 - SNS -- The USDA designated 47 counties in Ohio as primary disaster areas due to damages and losses caused by various disasters that occurred in 2004. Those disasters and the counties are: . . . Continue or visitors click here

OTTAWA - Sep 7/04 - SNS -- Prices received by farmers for their agricultural commodities fell 1.0% in June compared with the same period a year earlier, according to Statistics Canada's latest Farm Product Price Index (FPPI) calculations. . . . Continue or visitors click here

SYDNEY - Sep 7/04 - SNS -- Data developed by the state agriculture department in Western Australia shows field peas have surpassed narrow-leafed lupins and emerged as the most widely adapted and highest yielding grain legume crop for the state. . . . Continue or visitors click here

SYDNEY - Sep 8/04 - SNS -- The Australian Wheat Board (AWB) is now offering its fixed basis contracts for canola, sorghum and wheat to be delivered during the 2005-06 marketing year. . . . Continue or visitors click here

EDMONTON - Sep 9/04 - SNS -- Field pea growers need to consider the financial benefits of incorporating straw back into the soil as opposed to baling and selling it as livestock feed, argues Mark Olson, provincial pulse extension specialist, Crops Development Centre North, Edmonton. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Sep 10/04 - SNS -- The USDA declared 11 counties in Wyoming as primary agricultural disaster areas. . . . Continue or visitors click here

ST. PAUL - Sep 13/04 - SNS -- The annual corn borer survey is now underway by the Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA). . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Sep 14/04 - SNS -- The USDA issued certificates of protection to developers of 18 new varieties of seed-reproduced and tuber-propagated plants. They include corn, soybean, Bermuda grass, bluegrass, celery, fescue, mustard and wheat. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Sep 15/04 - SNS -- The USDA designated 47 Ohio counties as primary agricultural disaster areas due to damages and losses caused by various disasters that occurred in 2004. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Sep 15/04 - SNS -- The USDA issued certificates of protection to developers of 13 new varieties of seed-reproduced and tuber-propagated plants. They include cotton and soybean. . . . Continue or visitors click here

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

WASHINGTON - Sep 16/04 - SNS -- The USDA issued certificates of protection to developers of 12 new varieties of seed-reproduced and tuber-propagated plants. They include corn, sorghum and soybean. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WINNIPEG - Sep 16/04 - SNS -- The Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) today announced contract calls which will take effect September 16 and some contract terminations will come into effect on December 10. . . . Continue or visitors click here

SYDNEY - Sep 20/04 - SNS -- Farmers who plant field peas often gain additional benefits beyond such well known rotational benefits as better weed control and higher grain yields in following years. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Sep 20/04 - SNS -- The USDA issued certificates of protection to developers of nine new varieties of seed-reproduced and tuber-propagated plants. They include corn, cotton, soybean and triticale. . . . Continue or visitors click here

MONTREAL - Sep 21/04 - SNS -- Sales of pest control products increased in Canada in 2003, rising 3% to CDN $1.31 billion, according to the trade association, CropLife Canada. . . . Continue or visitors click here

INDIANAPOLIS - Sep 21/04 - SNS -- Dow AgroSciences LLC is immediately raising prices for Dithane fungicides a minimum of 5% worldwide. . . . Continue or visitors click here

FARGO - Sep 21/04 - SNS -- North Dakota Agriculture Commissioner Roger Johnson says an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) policy and a federal court ruling may deprive American farmers of their right to seek damages if pesticides damage their crops or fail to perform as advertised. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Sep 22/04 - SNS -- The first partial counter-cyclical program payment rates for 2004 crop wheat, feed grains, upland cotton, rice, soybeans, other oilseeds and peanuts will be announced soon after the October World Agriculture Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) that is scheduled for release on Oct. 12, 2004. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Sep 23/04 - SNS -- The USDA designated counties in Arkansas, Minnesota, Texas, Tennessee, Louisiana and Iowa as primary agricultural disaster areas. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Sep 24/04 - SNS -- The USDA is offering Florida a hurricane relief package with an estimated value of $500 million in response to President Bush’s August 27 directive to the federal department. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WINNIPEG - Sep 24/04 - SNS -- Manitoba's program to collect and dispose of unwanted and unused farm chemicals is entering phase two, says Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives (MAFRI) Minister Rosann Wowchuk. . . . Continue or visitors click here

OTTAWA - Sep 27/04 - SNS -- Prices received by Canadian farmers declined during July, but remained above year earlier levels, resulting in a 3.4% year over year increase in Statistics Canada's Farm Product Price Index (FPPI). . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Sep 29/04 - SNS -- The USDA's September Index of Prices Paid for Commodities and Services, Interest, Taxes, and Farm Wage Rates (PPITW) is 133% of the 1990-92 average. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Sep 29/04 - SNS -- Prices received by farmers in the United States in September were down sharply from August, resulted in a six point slide in USDA's preliminary All Farm Products Index of Prices Received to 114, based on 1990-92=100. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Sep 30/04 - SNS -- The USDA issued certificates of protection to developers of 10 new varieties of seed-reproduced and tuber-propagated plants. They include barley, bluegrass, fescue and ryegrass. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WINNIPEG - Sep 30/04 - SNS -- The Canadian Grain Commission (CGC) says growers need to be mindful of the risk of damaging the quality of milling wheat when they dry tough or damp wheat with hot air grain dryers. . . . Continue or visitors click here

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