WASHINGTON - Mar 1/06 - SNS -- The USDA's Commodity Credit Corporation boosted interest rates which need to be paid on commodity loans it has disbursed. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Mar 1/06 - SNS -- The USDA designated counties in Texas and Virginia as primary natural disaster areas, making all qualified farm operators eligible for low-interest emergency (EM) loans from USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA). . . . Continue or visitors click here

SYDNEY - Mar 2/06 - SNS -- Australian researchers say using bees to pollinate canola fields can increase seed yields and oil content 20%. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Mar 2/06 - SNS -- The USDA designated counties in Texas as primary natural disaster areas, making all qualified farm operators eligible for low-interest emergency (EM) loans from USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA). . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Mar 2/06 - SNS -- The USDA designated counties in Kansas, Montana and New York as primary natural disaster areas, making all qualified farm operators eligible for low-interest emergency (EM) loans from USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA). . . . Continue or visitors click here

OTTAWA - Mar 7/06 - SNS -- Ontario farmers are upset with the latest subsidy they will receive from the federal and provincial governments, saying it amounts to just CDN $16 per acre, when their losses are closer to $102. . . . Continue or visitors click here

OTTAWA - Mar 8/06 - SNS -- The financial plight facing Canadian farmers continues to be underscored by Statistics Canada, which reports prices received for agricultural commodities dropped 3.5% in December 2005 to 91.5 points, the lowest level since the end of 1999. . . . Continue or visitors click here

FARGO - Mar 16/06 - SNS -- Pulse producers in North Dakota and elsewhere are reminded to test prospective planting seed for the presence of Ascochyta diseases before planting. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Mar 23/06 - SNS -- The USDA issued certificates of protection to developers of twenty-three new varieties of seed-reproduced and tuber-propagated plants, including barley, bentgrass, coriander, cotton, lettuce, pepper, potato, safflower, triticale, and vinca. . . . Continue or visitors click here

OTTAWA - Mar 27/06 - SNS -- The cost price squeeze continued to worsen in Canada in January, with Statistics Canada reporting a 4.5% decline from last year in average prices farmers received for their commodities. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Mar 28/06 - SNS -- The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the United States approved registration of DuPont's Steward EC Insecticide for use against lepidopteran insects in that country. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WINNIPEG - Mar 28/06 - SNS -- The Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) announced contract calls for Canada Western Red Spring Wheat (CWRS), for the 2005-06 crop year. Effective March 28, 2006, these delivery calls apply to grain in straight, tough or damp condition. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Mar 30/06 - SNS -- Farmers in the United States experienced some relief from this season's cost-price squeeze insofar as the cost of farming managed to decline as much in March as the overall return from selling what is produced. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Mar 30/06 - SNS -- Returns from the sale of all agricultural production declined during March as gains in crop returns were offset by declines in livestock, according to the USDA. . . . Continue or visitors click here

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