OTTAWA - Jan 5/03 - SNS -- Canada's farm product price index (FPPI) staged a small month over month increase during October to reach 92.6 points, but remains sharply below year earlier levels, according to the latest data available from Statistics Canada. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Jan 7/04 - SNS -- The USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is seeking public comment on a petition from the Monsanto and Scotts companies to deregulate a genetically engineered glyphosate-tolerant creeping bentgrass (Agrostis stolonifera L.). . . . Continue or visitors click here

EDMONTON - Jan 9/04 - SNS -- Livestock producers can use a new bull selection tool called residual-feed intake (RFI) to help improve the feed efficiency of a beef cattle herd, says Alberta Agriculture beef specialist-new technologies, Patrick Ramsey. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WILMINGTON - Jan 14/03 - SNS -- DuPont Crop Protection will no longer market DuPont� Muster® herbicide for canola and crambe in the United States. . . . Continue or visitors click here

EDMONTON - Jan 14/04 - SNS -- Creeping red fescue growers will likely get better results with the crop by following a reduced tillage regime, suggests Nick Underwood, agronomist, Reduced Tillage LINKAGES, Grande Prairie. . . . Continue or visitors click here

EDMONTON - Jan 14/04 - SNS -- Western Canadian farmers are thinking more often in terms of full crop rotation cycles instead of just worrying about year to year changes in what is seeded, helping them do a better job of managing disease and weed cycles on their land. . . . Continue or visitors click here

REGINA - Jan 19/04 - SNS -- The results of the 2003 survey of weeds in Saskatchewan found the most common weeds were: wild buckwheat and wild oats, present in 51% of the surveyed fields; green foxtail, in 44% of the fields; Canada thistle, in 35%; and lamb's-quarters in 22% of surveyed fields. . . . Continue or visitors click here

REGINA - Jan 19/04 - SNS -- Levels of grasshopper infestations in Saskatchewan will be severe and very severe in many areas of the province. . . . Continue or visitors click here

DES MOINES - Jan 19/04 - SNS -- Alfalfa growers need to keep fields alfalfa-free for at least 12 months prior to reseeding to avoid problems with autotoxicity in newly seeded crops, according to results of a three-year study by University of Missouri researchers. . . . Continue or visitors click here

MANJIMUP - Jan 19/04 - SNS - There is a new possible threat to cauliflower crops in Western Australia, the tiny Staphylinid beetle. . . . Continue or visitors click here

MINNEAPOLIS – Jan 22/04 - SNS -- Crop producers in the United States are not making effective use of phosphorus, with only 40% testing at least half their land on a regular basis to determine phosphorus application levels. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Jan 26/04 - SNS -- USDA researchers say annual applications of phosphorus fertilizer are unnecessary to maintain profitable yields of wheat, barley, corn and other crops. . . . Continue or visitors click here

REGINA - Jan 26/04 - SNS -- Producers who intend to seed perennial forages this year need to consider which the species they will be choosing based on their local conditions, warns rangeland and forage agrologist Lorne Klein of Saskatchewan Agriculture, Food and Rural Revitalization (SAFRR) in Weyburn. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Jan 27/04 - SNS -- Federal researchers have confirmed no-till crops like wheat and peas can be grown without undue erosion on land that has been rested in grass under the federal Conservation Reserve Program (CRP). . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Jan 27/04 - SNS -- A viral spray is being used to effectively control pod borer insect pests in India and other countries. . . . Continue or visitors click here

OTTAWA - Jan 27/04 - SNS -- Canada has expanded the parts of the country where livestock producers are eligible to defer 2003 income tax income from cattle sales to include more areas of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. . . . Continue or visitors click here

EDMONTON - Jan 28/04 - SNS -- Growers will get better results by matching the variety to their field than just their region, say Alberta Agriculture researchers. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WINNIPEG - Jan 29/04 - SNS -- The Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) has extended the deadline for signing an Early Payment Option (EPO) contract to March 31. . . . Continue or visitors click here

LONDON - Jan 29/04 - SNS -- Farm incomes in the United Kingdom posted a solid increase in 2003, leaping 32% to £3.2billion compared to £2.49 billion in 2002, reaching their highest level since 1997. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Jan 30/04 - SNS -- The U.S. index of prices received by farmers dropped 2 points during January to 111, based on 1990-92=100, says the USDA. . . . Continue or visitors click here

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