Miscellaneous Commodity market news for Mar 2006 Weekly U.S. Rail Loadings DownWASHINGTON - Mar 2/06 - SNS -- The number of carloads of grains and oilseeds delivered to U.S. ports for the week ending February 22 fell, according to the USDA's Transportation and Marketing Programs/Transportation Services Branch weekly Grain Transportation Report. . . . Continue or visitors click here MFB Wants Secure Access to Foreign Farm LaborLANSING - Mar 2/06 - MFB -- Who will pick the fruit? Who's going to milk the cows? Will Americans accept foreign-grown produce? . . . Continue or visitors click here Weekly U.S. Rail Loadings DownWASHINGTON - Mar 9/06 - SNS -- The number of carloads of grains and oilseeds delivered to U.S. ports for the week ending March 1 fell, according to the USDA's Transportation and Marketing Programs/Transportation Services Branch weekly Grain Transportation Report. . . . Continue or visitors click here Canadian Spending on Biotech RisesOTTAWA - Mar 9/06 - SNS -- Canada's federal government spent CDN $791 million on biotechnology in 2004-05, up 6.3% from $744 million the previous fiscal year, reports Statistics Canada. . . . Continue or visitors click here Weekly U.S. Rail Loadings RiseWASHINGTON - Mar 16/06 - SNS -- The number of carloads of grains and oilseeds delivered to U.S. ports for the week ending March 8 rose, according to the USDA's Transportation and Marketing Programs/Transportation Services Branch weekly Grain Transportation Report. . . . Continue or visitors click here Canadian Position On Terminator Seeds AssailedOTTAWA - Mar 20/06 - SNS -- Agriculture Canada has tried on several occasions to overturn an international ban on development of so-called terminator seeds, bit groups in favor of the ban hope the new Conservative government's Environment Minister RonaAmbrose will defend the moratorium at the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) begins today in Curitiba, Brazil. . . . Continue or visitors click here U.S. Hops Inventories TightWASHINGTON - Mar 20/06 - SNS -- The inventory of hops held by growers, dealers, and brewers on March 1, 2006, totaled 69.0 million pounds, 9% less than March 1, 2005, and 19% less than March 1, 2004, reports the USDA. . . . Continue or visitors click here Modest Drop in Canadian Rail FreightOTTAWA - Mar 21/06 - SNS -- Canadian railroad freight volumes managed only a modest decline in January, instead of the traditional drop off, according to the latest data available from Statistics Canada. . . . Continue or visitors click here Catfish Feed Deliveries - Arkansas Feb 2006A table about Catfish Feed Deliveries - Arkansas Feb 2006 . . . Subscribers Only
Catfish Feed Deliveries - Louisiana Feb 2006A table about Catfish Feed Deliveries - Louisiana Feb 2006 . . . Subscribers Only
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Catfish Feed Shipments DownWASHINGTON - Mar 21/06 - SNS -- The amount of fed shipped to catfish farmers declined in February, falling below both month and year earlier levels, according to the USDA. . . . Continue or visitors click here Catfish Feed Deliveries - Alabama Feb 2006A table about Catfish Feed Deliveries - Alabama Feb 2006 . . . Subscribers Only
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Somalia's Drought Situation WorsensNAIROBI - Mar 22/06 - IRIN -- The drought-induced food security crisis in parts of southern Somalia has deteriorated so fast that it has led to increased migration of people and livestock, a United Nations Food Security Analysis Unit (FSAU) has said. . . . Continue or visitors click here NGFA Wants Open Rail CompetitionWASHINGTON - Mar 22/06 - SNS -- Paper barriers exist to effective rail competition in the United States, asserts the National Grain and Feed Association (NGFA), and it is time for the Surface Transportation Board (STB) to resolve these problems. . . . Continue or visitors click here Vancouver Imposes Truck Licensing SchemeVANCOUVER - Mar 23/06 - SNS -- The Vancouver Port Authority (VPA) is introducing new and stronger requirements to its mandatory Truck Licensing System (TLS) effective March 27. . . . Continue or visitors click here Kenyan Food Situation WorsensNAIROBI - Mar 28/06 - IRIN -- The food situation, particularly among farmers in drought-affected areas of Kenya, continues to deteriorate, with available food and non-food resources falling short of growing demands, said a report released by a famine early warning agency. . . . Continue or visitors click here Weekly U.S. Rail Loadings SlipWASHINGTON - Mar 30/06 - SNS -- The number of carloads of grains and oilseeds delivered to U.S. ports for the week ending March 22 slipped, according to the USDA's Transportation and Marketing Programs/Transportation Services Branch weekly Grain Transportation Report. . . . Continue or visitors click here Hay Harvested Expected to SlipWASHINGTON - Mar 31/06 - SNS -- U.S. hay producers expect to harvest 61.5 million acres of all hay in 2006, down fractionally from 2005, according to the USDA. . . . Continue or visitors click here
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