SYDNEY - Oct 1/04 - SNS -- A frost tolerant barley is expected to be available to growers in the state of Western Australian growers within three years. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Oct 1/04 - SNS -- Interest rates for 1995 and prior crop year commodity loans disbursed by USDA’s Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) during October 2004 is 2.000%, unchanged from September 2004. . . . Continue or visitors click here

SYDNEY - Oct 1/04 - SNS -- Researchers with the state agriculture department in Western Australia believe field peas play an important role in breaking up disease cycles for other plant, specifically that state's most prominent Root Lesion Nematode (RLN) species, Pratylenchus neglectus. . . . Continue or visitors click here

REGINA - Oct 4/034 - SNS -- Farmland values in Canada rose an average 2.3% during the first half of 2004, according to Farm Credit Canada (FCC). . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Oct 4/04 - SNS -- The Democratic representative for New York, Representative Maurice Hinchey, is seeking to make it harder to buy and sell ammonium nitrate fertilizer in order to make it harder for individuals to use the material to make bombs. . . . Continue or visitors click here

REGINA - Oct 5/04 - SNS -- Farmers in Saskatchewan are urged to approach the decision to burn crop residues with caution and only as a last resort, says Wayne Gosselin, Environmental Policy Analyst with Saskatchewan Agriculture, Food and Rural Revitalization (SAFRR). . . . Continue or visitors click here

WINNIPEG - Oct 5/04 - SNS -- The Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) announced contract calls for Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS) wheat for the 2004-05 crop year. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Oct 5/04 - SNS -- The USDA designated several counties in Georgia, North Carolina and Texas as primary agricultural disaster areas. . . . Continue or visitors click here

EDMONTON - Oct 7/04 - SNS -- Business development courses for farm operators will again be offered in Alberta via the Competitive Advantage Program for Agriculture (CAPA). . . . Continue or visitors click here

WINNIPEG - Oct 7/04 - SNS -- The Canadian Grain Commission (CGC) has shortened the appeal period for grade and dockage received when grain is delivered to a licensed facility from 30 to 15 days. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WINNIPEG - Oct 8/04 - SNS -- The Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) announced contract calls for Canada Western Red Winter (CWRW), for the 2004-05 crop year. . . . Continue or visitors click here

REGINA - Oct 13/04 - SNS -- Pulse producers in Saskatchewan and other areas where crops were produced under difficult conditions may need to take extra care to ensure they do not lose what they have once crops are placed in storage. . . . Continue or visitors click here

REGINA - Oct 13/04 - SNS -- There is no good reason to buy privately published directories and catalogues that list grants, programs and services offered by federal and provincial governments. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Oct 13/04 - SNS -- The USDA designated counties in California, Minnesota, Nevada and Texas as primary agricultural disaster areas. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Oct 13/04 - SNS -- The USDA issued certificates of protection to developers of 15 new varieties of seed-reproduced and tuber-propagated plants. They include barley, bluegrass, bentgrass, bermudagrass, corn, fescue, muskmelon, potato and soybean. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WINNIPEG - Oct 15/04 - SNS -- The Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) updated its contract calls for Canada Western Red Winter (CWRW), for the 2004-05 crop year. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Oct 22/04 - SNS -- The first partial 2004 crop year counter-cyclical program payments are now available for wheat, corn, sorghum, barley, oats, soybeans, upland cotton, rice and peanuts, as are the final counter-cyclical payments for the 2003 crop year. . . . Continue or visitors click here

SYDNEY - Oct 25/04 - SNS -- The wheat variety called Pugsley will be accepted as AWB Premium White (APW) in Victoria for the 2004-05 harvest. . . . Continue or visitors click here

OTTAWA - Oct 25/04 - SNS -- Better prices for fruits and potatoes offset slumping grain and oilseed prices, helped lift Canada's Farm Product Price Index (FPPI) 0.8% above July and 5.2% above year earlier levels. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Oct 25/04 - SNS -- Applying farm chemicals between crop rows instead of in the rows could lead to better environmental results, according to a study of plowed and no-till cornfields by USDA Agricultural Research Service scientists in Beltsville, Md. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WINNIPEG - Oct 27/04 - SNS -- Manitoba will adjust the way it appraises crops for insurance purposes, especially corn and dry edible beans, says Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives Minister Rosann Wowchuk. . . . Continue or visitors click here

FARGO - Oct 29/04 - SNS -- Allowing cattle to graze corn fields which will not be harvested can be an efficient way to extra fed value from those fields, argues J.W. Schroeder, North Dakota State University Extension dairy specialist. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Oct 29/04 - SNS -- Farm incomes in the United States continue to be squeezed as the cost of inputs continues to rise, while prices received from the sale of agricultural commodities declines, according to the latest USDA data. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Oct 29/04 - SNS -- Average returns from the sale of agricultural commodities declined in the United States in August, with the result the USDA's preliminary All Farm Products Index of Prices Received by Farmers was down four points at 111,based on 1990-92=100. . . . Continue or visitors click here

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