WASHINGTON - Feb 1/05 - SNS -- Prices received by agricultural producers in the United States remain under pressure, with the USDA estimaying returns for all crops slipped 1%, with the All Farm Products Index of Prices Received by Farmers sittonmg at 110 points in January. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Feb 1/05 - SNS -- The spread between prices received and the cost of agricultural inputs worsened in January, with the USDA saying prices received across all commodities were down 1%,l while the cost of farming rose. . . . Continue or visitors click here

FARGO - Feb 4/05 - SNS -- A new hard red spring wheat variety available from North Dakota State University is expected to replace much of the Alsen acreage in the state. . . . Continue or visitors click here

SYDNEY - Feb 7/05 - SNS -- A new clover variety will be available in Australia next year and could prove helpful in weed control in Mediterranean farming systems. . . . Continue or visitors click here

REGINA - Feb 7/05 - SNS -- Canola growers should be choosing varieties which are resistant to Fusarium wilt, asserts Saskatchewan Agriculture's Integrated Cropping Management Specialist Dale Risula. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Feb 8/05 - SNS -- The USDA designated numerous counties in Colorado and Texas as primary agricultural disaster areas. . . . Continue or visitors click here

FARGO - Feb 10/05 - SNS -- North Dakota's Agricultural Experiment Station has released a new variety of malting barley suitable for conditions in the state, says Al Schneiter, North Dakota State University Department of Plant Sciences chair. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Feb 14/05 - SNS -- The USDA designated counties in California, Georgia, Idaho, New York and Texas as primary agricultural disaster areas. . . . Continue or visitors click here

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WINNIPEG - Feb 15/05 - SNS -- The Canadian Wheat Board will offer western Canadian wheat producers the option of delivering wheat under a Daily Price Contract (DPC) based on U.S. cash market bids. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Feb 15/05 - SNS -- The USDA will begin issuing second partial counter-cyclical payments for 2004 crop wheat, corn, grain sorghum, barley, oats, upland cotton, rice, soybeans and peanuts under the Direct and Counter-cyclical Payment Program(DCP). . . . Continue or visitors click here

BISMARCK – Feb 16/05 - SNS -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is giving a quarantine emergency exemption for the fungicide Stratego® for use by North Dakota soybean growers to control Asian soybean rust (Phakopsora pachyrhizi). . . . Continue or visitors click here

LANSING - Feb 17/05 - MFB -- A disturbing downward trend in Michigan's soybean yields has prompted agricultural officials to ask 1,500 state producers why. . . . Continue or visitors click here

LANSING - Feb 17/05 - MFB -- A group of Michigan agricultural producers is going Down Under to learn how to stay "on top" in the absence of government-funded direct farm aid. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WINNIPEG - Feb 21/05 - SNS -- The Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) announced contract calls for Canada Western Red Spring (CARS) wheat for the 2004-05 crop year. . . . Continue or visitors click here

OTTAWA - Feb 24/05 - SNS -- Cash receipts by Canadian farmers rose 7.5% above 2003 last year to reach a record CDN $36,769 million, for the increase in three years, according to Statistics Canada.. . . . Continue or visitors click here

LANSING - Feb 24/05 - MFB -- Soybean growers looking for protection against the latest potential threat are encouraged to take advantage of new crop insurance language approved by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Risk Management Authority (RMA). . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Feb 28/05 - SNS -- USDA researchers have identified two oat genotypes which are more freeze-tolerant under controlled field tests than any variety released during the past 65 years. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Feb 28/05 - SNS -- The cost of farming did not increase in the United States in February, with the USDA leaving its Index of Prices Paid for Commodities and Services, Interest, Taxes, and Farm Wage Rates (PPITW) unchanged at 134% of the 1990-92 average. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Feb 28/05 - SNS -- The preliminary All Farm Products Index of Prices Received by Farmers in February came in at 113, reports the USDA, 2 points (1.8%) above the January Index. . . . Continue or visitors click here

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