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Miscellaneous Commodity market news for Mar 2006


Weekly U.S. Rail Loadings Down

WASHINGTON - 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 Labor

LANSING - 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 Down

WASHINGTON - 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 Rises

OTTAWA - 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 Rise

WASHINGTON - 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 Assailed

OTTAWA - 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 Tight

WASHINGTON - 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 Freight

OTTAWA - 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 2006

A table about Catfish Feed Deliveries - Arkansas Feb 2006 . . . Subscribers Only


Catfish Feed Deliveries - Louisiana Feb 2006

A table about Catfish Feed Deliveries - Louisiana Feb 2006 . . . Subscribers Only


Catfish Feed Deliveries - Mississippi Feb 2006

A table about Catfish Feed Deliveries - Mississippi Feb 2006 . . . Subscribers Only


Catfish Feed Shipments Down

WASHINGTON - 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 2006

A table about Catfish Feed Deliveries - Alabama Feb 2006 . . . Subscribers Only


Catfish Feed Deliveries - Other States Feb 2006

A table about Catfish Feed Deliveries - Other States Feb 2006 . . . Subscribers Only


Somalia's Drought Situation Worsens

NAIROBI - 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 Competition

WASHINGTON - 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 Scheme

VANCOUVER - 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 Worsens

NAIROBI - 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 Slip

WASHINGTON - 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 Slip

WASHINGTON - 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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