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2009 LIGHT CORN CAN MAKE FEED...BUT!
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
2009 LIGHT CORN CAN MAKE FEED...BUT!12/07/09
The 2009 harvest of corn is about 85% complete with much of what's left in the fields in questionable territory for usefulness. For the light test weight, low grade crop that is out there looking for a home, OMAFRA's Feed Ingredients & Byproducts Feeding Specialist, Ron Lackey says there is a home for it. In a recent posting on Crop Pest, Lackey says, "There may be opportunities for livestock producers to utilize some low test weight, higher than normal moisture corn that is present in some parts of Ontario this year. After all, research trials would suggest that livestock can perform quite well on this type of corn. However, there are some precautions when considering this lower grade of corn as a feed ingredient.
First is harvesting- if you are hoping to harvest this corn as shelled corn , make sure it is dry enough to go through a combine, of course.
Second is storage -when put into storage as higher moisture corn, fermentation should occur quickly, however the moisture content may be well above recommended levels and the results are therefore less predictable. This may not be a good year to experiment, particularly in large quantities, with new types of storage, such plastic bags or tubes. On the other hand, a small experimental trial may provide a valuable learning opportunity for future use.
Third is handling-wet corn does not flow or blow as easily as drier corn, handling will take more power, energy and time.
Fourth is processing- set rollers or grinders to process this corn as coarse as possible to avoid a finely ground high moisture meal that may not handle or feed well.
Fifth are moulds-much of our mould challenge this year have been of the Cladosporium type, which make the corn look black and undesirable, however Cladosporium does not generate harmful mycotoxins, and should not affect feed safety. However, extreme infestation levels might affect palatability (this affect is presently unknown). It may be best to first offer a small quantity to your livestock in order to gauge their reaction. Recently there have reports of increasing levels of DON from fields not yet harvested. Check for potentially harmful levels of mycotoxins before putting this corn in storage.
These precautions are not meant to discourage the use of this year's corn as a feed ingredient, where and when appropriate. Provided these considerations are properly managed, higher moisture, low test weight corn can be an opportunity feed ingredient. These risk factors and generally higher handling costs needed to be reflected in any prices negotiated between the buyer and seller.
CHINA LIFTS BAN ON CANADIAN PORK
12/02/09
From CBC News
China has agreed to lift the ban on all imports of pork products from Canada immediately, Ottawa announced Tuesday.
Pierre Lemieux, the parliamentary secretary to the minister of agriculture, told the House of Commons that reopening the border will give pork producers access to one of Canada's top agricultural export markets, providing $50 million in annual revenue in the past.
Ottawa has been in negotiations with China since it closed its border to Canadian pork in May 2009 with the outbreak of swine flu in a herd of pigs in Alberta.
At the time, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, or CFIA, once again stressed that eating pork does not pose a flu threat.
SEPTEMBER FARM PRODUCT PRICE INDEX PLUMMETS
12/03/09
From StatsCan
Prices farmers received for their commodities fell 15.7% in September from the same month a year earlier, as both the crops index and the livestock and animal products index declined.
The prices producers received for crops in September were 17.2% lower compared with September 2008. The decline in the crops index was due to decreases recorded by all commodities except fruit and potatoes. This marks the 10th year-over-year decrease for the crops index. Before the slide, crop prices had recorded year-over-year increases from September 2006 until October 2008, when world grain and oilseed supplies were replenished by record harvests.
Potato prices in September were 4.5% above those of September 2008. North American potato production this fall was 2.4% above last year, however, this crop was the third smallest since 2001.
The prices producers received for livestock and animal products in September were down 10.0% compared with September 2008. Decreases were recorded for all commodities. The hog and cattle prices have been affected by the US Country of Origin Labeling legislation, concerns about the H1N1 flu virus and lower demand driven by the economic situation.
On a month-to-month basis, the total index (1997=100) decreased from 110.8 in August to 104.0 in September.
The total crops index was down 8.8% in September compared with the August index, as prices for all commodities except fruit and vegetables were lower. The potato index (-17.1%) and the grains index (-14.3%) recorded the largest drops.
After the challenging 2009 summer growing season, the much needed dry and mild weather in September boosted crop development and helped the harvest progress. At the beginning of September, Canadian producers reported higher yields for most crops than those reported in the preliminary production survey taken at the end of July. Canadian and international production reports continue to increase expected production and subsequent supply of grains and oilseeds for this new crop year.
The overall livestock and animal products index remained unchanged from August at 99.4.
PREPARING TO TRADE CARBON CREDITS
12/03/09
This week's guest commentary comes from Don McCabe, Vice-President, Ontario Federation of Agriculture
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As the world looks for solutions to the growing amount of greenhouse gas in the atmosphere, agriculture is an important part of the solution.
I will be attending the United Nations planning forum in Copenhagen, Denmark, next week as a Canadian Federation of Agriculture representative. The purpose of the international meeting is to find a replacement to the Kyoto.
The message from this Canadian farmer is that agriculture is 10 per cent of the problem, but can be 20 per cent of the solution if the policy is right. All farmers need strong global policy.
In Alberta, farmers are receiving recognition for their efforts in managing carbon. Roughly, 1.5 million tonnes of carbon credits from no-till soil management have been recognized up to the end of 2008, putting ten million dollars back in the pockets of those Alberta farmers.
With both the Ontario and Canadian governments looking at the potential of cap and trade market systems setting up as early as 2012, Ontario farmers need to develop processes that would help them participate in such markets. The Ontario Federation of Agriculture is currently conducting a feasibility study to examine opportunities for Ontario farmers in a carbon trading system.
OFA has established a consultation schedule where farmers will be encouraged to attend and find out more about the potential of cap and trade market systems in their farming business. The consultations are intended to help identify opportunities and barriers influencing farmers’ participation in a carbon trading market.
Based on the input received at the consultation sessions, recommendations will be developed to overcome any obstacles identified by the study. The two-hour consultations will be open to all farmers and commodity organizations.
Funding for this project is coming from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s Advancing Canadian Agriculture and Agri-Food program as delivered by the Agricultural Adaptation Council in Ontario.
The consultation schedule, available on OFA’s website, has 12 locations across the province. The process began November 30 and ends December 9th.
Once farmers gain an understanding of their potential role in reducing carbon in the atmosphere, discussions will be held with regulated large emitters and other purchasers of carbon credits. A business model may then be developed for the aggregation of carbon credits generated by Ontario agriculture. Carbon is a commodity no different than corn or wheat.
Discussions at the consultation sessions will examine a number of topics: Are the principles for agriculture correct? What are the pros and cons of being an aggragator? What are the essential qualities of an aggregator?
Farmers participating in the consultations will be asked what information and what support tools they would need before making a commitment to get involved in the carbon trading system?
OFA sees the project unfolding over a period of a year, wrapping up by September 2010. We want to host a multi-commodity meeting to consider the issues, and we want to see a list of viable options to guide agriculture moving forward with the project.
Kim Turnbull, a farmer and chair of the Agricultural Adaptation Council, has said: “reducing greenhouse gas emissions is a concern for all Canadians, and it’s exciting that agriculture can be part of the solution to this global problem. We just need to determine how we can best make this work for Ontario farmers.”
The OFA is determined to make it work for farmers.
GMO BAN THREATENS INDUSTRY
12/04/09
From the Capital Press
The U.S. sugar beet industry could suffer billions of dollars in losses if Roundup Ready varieties are banned next year, according to attorneys representing growers and processors.
"At this point, a halt on planting Roundup Ready sugar beet seed for the 2010 root crop in 10 states would create severe seed shortages in many areas of the country and pose other very significant problems potentially resulting in billions of dollars in damages to thousands of sugar beet farmers, to cooperatives and processors and to communities across the country... " attorneys Gilbert S. Keteltas, John F. Bruce, Christopher H. Marroro of Washington, D.C., and Joanne Lichtman of Los Angeles, said in court documents filed Wednesday, Nov. 25, in federal court in San Francisco.
The attorneys represent the American Sugarbeet Growers Association, U.S. Beet Sugar Association, American Crystal Sugar Co., The Amalgamated Sugar Co., Western Sugar Cooperative, Wyoming Sugar Co. and individual leaders of four growers' co-ops, all of whom are intervenors in the case.
Also involved are attorneys representing Monsanto, Syngenta Seeds and Betaseed Inc., which have also intervened in the case.
Federal district Judge Jeffrey S. White ruled in September that USDA unlawfully allowed the commercial release of Roundup Ready sugar beets in 2005 by its failure to adequately consider the potential environmental impacts.
The ruling was based on a lawsuit filed by the Center for Food Safety and Earthjustice in January 2008.
The case is now in the remedy phase. A hearing is scheduled for Friday, Dec. 4, in federal court in San Francisco, in which industry attorneys are expected to ask the judge to allow an evidentiary hearing, one with witnesses. The court will also hear a motion to intervene from a third seed company, SESVanderHave USA Inc.
According to recent court documents outlining anticipated future proceedings, the plaintiffs said they plan to seek an injunction banning all planting of Roundup Ready sugar beets -- both seed and commercial root crop -- until the USDA completes an environmental impact statement.
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CORN BINS NEED WATCHING THIS WINTER
12/07/09
Managing this year's corn harvest stored on the farm will need lots of attention this winter. Helmut Spieser, Ag Engineer at Ridgetown writes that the fines coming off the fragile broken kernels are the cause of the headaches. In his note, Spieser says, "You may have seen a number of articles talking about the problems that fines may present in bins of corn from an air flow standpoint. Fines do present a real risk of restricting air flow and may cause spoilage to start which left unchecked could result in quality deterioration. Repeated exposure to fines and grain dust can also present a health risk to people working in and around moving grains".
The article written by Spieser adds that the solution is called Coring Bins. He says, "Coring bins this year is critical to minimize as much as possible airflow problems through the winter storage months. Farmers that are coring their bins are doing so every 7 to 10 feet of grain fill. Coring removes the highest concentration of fines so they don't pose as much of a problem. Clean this cored material if at all possible or put it into another bin and ship it first.
"Be careful what you ship!" says Spieser. "Buyers have limits on the amount of fines that they will allow. Some companies have raised their amount of allowable fines, some as high as 7%. You'd think this is great news. The scary reality is that even with 7% allowable fines, many loads are still being rejected. Farmers with exceptionally high levels of fines in their stored corn should be very nervous. If you haven't cored your bins, consider doing it now. Finding out you have a problem with fines in February will not be any fun. Coring your bins should lessen any problems that may arise" concludes Spieser.
BUGS ENGINEERED TO MAKE BIOFUELS
12/04/09
From PRI’s Living on Earth
America has long dreamed of growing its way to energy independence — ethanol, biodiesel and other plant-based fuels can wean us from climate-changing, budget-busting oil.??But biofuels have baggage. They take lots of energy, fertilizer, farmland and water. Well now some university labs and hi-tech companies promise a way past those problems. These ambitious scientists and entrepreneurs use genetic engineering to get fuel straight out of tiny plants and microbes.
It's a process called direct solar liquid energy.? ?Joule Biotechnologies is in the business of making this kind of energy. In one of its labs, solar converters are being tested.??The converters are tabletop-sized rectangular, plastic frames; each with dozens of clear, skinny tubes running their length. Each tubes bubbles with a greenish liquid.??The bubbles are carbon dioxide; the greenish color comes from a tiny, genetically modified organism. Plants or bacteria, maybe. ??
"So, we use the tools of synthetic biology in order to start with a base organism, but actually by modifying pathways, create new organisms that we have engineered to directly secrete fuels and chemicals," explains Joule CEO, Bill Sims.??One engineered organism can make ethanol. Another makes diesel fuel. Sims envisions these panels in a sunny locale, soaking up CO2 from a power plant, and sending a constant stream of fuel-laden water to a separation facility. ?
?He says an acre of the solar converters could produce many times what biofuel crops do. "So there's no intermediary like cellulose or like algae that has to be grown, has to be processed as part of their process to create fuels or chemicals. We also don't require fresh water, we don't require agricultural land. We are converting CO2, and what is viewed by most people as bad into something good: renewable, clean fuel.
"??It might sound too good to be true, but Sims says it really works that way.??" We aren't converting sunlight to electrons, we're converting sunlight to liquid fuels in a cost-effective manner that has essentially and unlimited supply.??" It works for real. We get continued improvements on our productivity, and we're finalizing our negotiations to break ground on a pilot plant in early 2010.
"??Just what the new organisms are that Joule engineered is a secret. Sims is tight-lipped when it comes to intellectual property, a common trait among the handful of companies trying this technology. ??But in academia, things are a bit more open source.??Biochemistry professor Larry Wackett leads a team at the University of Minnesota. They're taking a different approach to direct solar fuels. Wackett says, no matter how much you modify an organism, you can only teach it so many tricks.
??"If you try to engineer that organism to do many additional things, it puts stress on it and it's often very difficult to highly engineer that to do all of the things that you want."
??Wackett's working on a bacterial buddy system. A genetically modified cyanobacteria, the ancient bugs that were the Earth's first photosynthesizers, and a bacteria called Shewanella, which is good at churning out the building blocks of hydrocarbon fuels.??
"Now if you take a photosynthetic organism," says Wackett, "something that harvests sunlight; and then you take another organism that will now take the energy from the photosynthetic organism -- the carbon -- and convert that into something that you want -- like a hydrocarbon -- this could be a very effective team."?
?Professor Wackett's Minnesota team was among three universities to win highly competitive grants last month from the Department of Energy to develop direct solar liquid fuels. And the Minnesota lab has spun out a small company called, BioCee.??
Jim Lane, who keeps tabs on the biofuel industry as editor of the "Biofuels Digest," says these companies already have a nickname: "The Magic Bug Guys." And they're generating a lot of buzz.??"The energy has been building up for several years in research," said Lane. "And the two companies that have gotten a lot of attention lately: Joule Biotechnologies and also BioCee -- they've really proven at the bench-scale that their technology really works."
??While there is a lot of excitement around the two companies and the kinds of biofuels they're creating, Lane says they still have a ways to go.
ARS EXPLORES WAYS TO KEEP CARBON IN THE SOIL
12/02/09
From ARS News Service
Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists are testing out alternative ways of tilling the soil and rotating crops to see if they can help wheat farmers in Oregon sequester more carbon in the soil and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Soil organic carbon plays a major role in how well a cultivated field holds moisture, provides nutrients and remains productive. That can be a problem in eastern Oregon because the soils are relatively low in organic carbon. Wheat farmers there traditionally plant winter wheat one year and leave the field fallow for a season, using traditional methods to plow before planting.
Hero Gollany, a soil scientist at the ARS Columbia Plateau Conservation Research Center in Pendleton, Ore., is looking at three scenarios that may help. In one field, she is comparing levels of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide emissions released from the traditional 2-year rotation with an alternative 3-year cycle of no-till winter wheat, followed by a second crop of no-till winter wheat, followed by sorghum. She is measuring residue yields, soil conditions, and greenhouse gas emissions, taking measurements throughout the year. Because precipitation usually increases nitrous oxide emissions, she also collects data after any rain or snowfall.
She also is examining whether two other cropping systems sequester more carbon. In one, she grows winter wheat continuously and seeds the untilled soil directly each year. In the other, she grows wheat one year, leaves the plot fallow the next year and uses sweep tillage and a rod-weeder to control weeds. This is a low-impact method of plowing 4 to 5 inches into the soil. It is less destructive to soil structure than conventional tillage, and helps retain water and organic matter. Previous experiments show a 14 percent increase in soil organic carbon if growers use sweep tillage rather than the traditional moldboard plowing.
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