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RIDGETOWN ECONOMISTS DELIVER BDO’S 2010 AGRICULTURAL OUTLOOK PUBLICATION
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
From Good News Bites - RIDGETOWN - Ridgetown Campus economists Ken McEwan and Randy Duffy reviewed market trends from coast to coast as they prepared the 2010 Agricultural Outlook for BDO Canada, a national accounting, consulting and advisory firm.The publication focuses on five sectors: beef, pork, grains and oilseeds, and horticulture. The document reviews recent Canadian trends and discusses important issues facing each sector in the coming year. As expected, the agriculture industry offers a range of economic opportunities combined with new and on-going challenges for 2010.
“Working in economics, we are fortunate to co-operate with a wide variety of agriculture- based clients across Canada, and this was a new and rewarding opportunity for our economics research team,” says McEwan.
He feels that one of the most interesting experiences in preparing the study was learning more about the size and diversity of production agriculture in Western Canada. The 2010 report highlights changes in commodity consumption that reflect a growing population base and a Canadian population that is looking for healthy food choices.
McEwan and Duffy also worked with Danny LeRoy, University of Lethbridge, who provided the Western Canadian content.
Anyone interested in reviewing this new publication can do so at www.bdo.ca/library/publications/agriculture/...ook2010.pdf
MINISTERS CALLED ON TO SUSTAIN LOCAL FOOD
02/04/10
From a Release - GUELPH – Ontario’s new Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA), Hon. Carol Mitchell and her federal and provincial colleagues are being called on by Ontario farmers to deliver investments they need to ensure the industry remains strong and can continue to grow when they attend this week’s meeting of federal, provincial and territorial agriculture ministers in Toronto.
Ontario farmers have a strong focus on immediate investment and new Business Risk Management Program implementation as identified by the Ontario Agriculture Sustainability Coalition (OASC). The coalition has members from the livestock, grains and oilseeds, and edible horticulture sectors.
“Our coalition of non-supply managed associations has developed this package to address the short-term needs and long-term sustainability of our members,” said Ontario Federation of Agriculture (OFA) President Bette Jean Crews in a letter to Minister Mitchell on behalf of the OASC.
The OASC notes that the BRMP “adheres to the basic principles and precepts of the RMP (Risk Management Program)” put in place as a pilot project for grains and oilseeds producers based on cost of production.
“We recommend adoption of the BRMP for all sectors with immediate implementation of the grain and oilseeds RMP in time for the 2010 crop year. Other sectors will come on stream as development and testing (of the programs) is complete” retroactive to January 2009, the letter to Minister Mitchell stated.
The letter also listed five recommendations developed by the Ontario Agricultural Commodity Council to retroactively improve the AgriStability program. A recent survey of OFA members found that the vast majority criticized AgriStability as an unpredictable program that was not serving their needs.
“AgriStability, in its present form does not deliver its intended results. It is incumbent on governments to make it work as intended. We cannot wait another three years for the next version of Growing Forward to deliver predictable and bankable farm programs. Governments must act now to stabilize and sustain our industry.” said Crews.
OASC’s letter to Minister Mitchell stated “We are committed to working with you to bring the federal government to the table as a full partner. The upcoming meeting of Federal, Provincial and Territorial Ministers is seen as the opportunity to initiate this necessary change…..”
TODAY’S ETHANOL PLANT IS TOMORROW’S ‘BIOREFINERY’
02/05/10
By Nelson Zandbergen of AgriNews
ATHENS — Don’t think of a modern ethanol plant like the Johnstown facility as a mere producer of green energy from corn kernels. That’s only the first step.
Today’s ethanol plant is really the "potential hub, the starting note of a biorefinery capability," a place that might eventually process corn cobs and other field material to produce ethanol for uses even beyond the gas pump — including the burgeoning hand sanitizer market — according to Greenfield Ethanol Inc. CEO and president Bob Gallant.
At a demonstration plant the firm intends to set up this year in Chatham, Greenfield aims to develop a "bolt-on" technology that could allow its flagship Johnstown site — and other ethanol plants — to add corn cobs to their menu. Such an addition could boost ethanol output by 10 to 15 per cent at a typical facility, Gallant told an economic development conference here Jan. 15.
Also on the output side is waste carbon dioxide with the potential to serve neighbouring industries, an idea the Township of Edwardsburgh/Cardinal is attempting to pursue for the surrounding industrial park at Johnstown.
But the center of the envisioned hub is alcohol "one of the most tired old molecules in the world," quipped Gallant, a former chemical company executive and engineer prior to joining his current employer in July 2000.
Aside from slight differences in processing, "beverage alcohol, industrial alcohol, and fuel ethanol, are exactly the same product," he noted, while an image of alcohol-based food and hand sanitizer bottles flashed onto the overhead screen, declaring them a "very significant market for us right now because of H1N1."
Before Greenfield was Greenfield, it made only commercial and beverage alcohols, under the name Commercial Alcohols Inc. That diversified exposure in the alcohol business has helped the firm weather the fuel ethanol trade, "a fairly risky business over the last 10 years in North America," he acknowledged.
"It continues to be that way. It’s getting better, but getting into the fuel ethanol business, for anyone in the past, meant choosing to position yourself between two unrelated commodities, an agricultural commodity (corn or another grain) on the input side ... and basically a petroleum-based petroleum product on the other side, gasoline," he explained.
While the ethanol producer winds up absorbing all of the risk in that equation, he noted that Greenfield, because of its history, isn’t limited to the fuel sector, a fortunate strength for the company.
"So we basically have a business model that has two different key segments. And that’s helped us ride out some fairly rough periods and allowed us to make the type of investments that we have in Johnstown," he said in reference to the $185-million plant, designed to produce 200-million litres of ethanol annually from 20 million bushels of corn.
Totally fuel-oriented ethanol firms south of the border, where 200 ethanol plants now operate, haven’t fared as well recently. "In the U.S., some of our confreres are suffering," he said, "as they made poor decisions on inputs or were over leveraged."
But he also made clear that fuel ethanol "is no fad" in North America, highlighting that the number of plants in the U.S. numbered only a handful a decade ago. "It’s here and it’s here to stay."
Greenfield continues to explore ways of diversifying both the inputs and the outputs at its existing Canadian ethanol plants at Johnstown, Chatham, Tiverton, and Varennes, he said.
In addition to pursuing the sanitizer market, the firm runs a U.S. operation that processes, triple packages and irradiates alcohol to create an "ultra-pure" product sold to hospitals and universities for research purposes. "It’s the same molecule that we sell in bulk out of Johnstown, that finds its way to a very specialized market. It’s also a small market that’s growing immensely."
He also revealed that Greenfield is working with another firm on the development of a runway de-icer made from succinic acid, which can be synthesized from ethanol. Unlike regular deiicer, the new product does not destroy airplanes’ costly braking systems, he said, adding that airports are "falling all over themselves" at the prospect.
"We’re back to the bolt-on concept. You could bolt on one of these acid plants onto a Johnstown, onto a Chatham, onto any one of the fuel ethanol plants in North America."
The idea fits with Gallant’s incremental approach to achieving technological advances at the company. "Finding new things that produce a return right now, to give you a new platform to stand on, is what we’re all about," said the CEO, who eschews the pursuit of "one giant leap" in company research.
Corn cobs
This philosophy fits with Greenfield’s interest in making cellulosic ethanol from corn cobs, allowing it to employ a simpler method that "focuses on the sugars that are easiest to get at," he said.
In terms of technical difficulty, turning corn cobs into ethanol ranks somewhere between the easy corn kernel on one extreme, and difficult switchgrass or corn stover on the other, he said.
At the planned demonstration plant being built this year, "we’re looking at a little bit of science with a lot of really good engineering," he said, "rather than a whole lot of science that doesn’t have the engineering in place yet."
Compared to other methods of brewing cellulosic ethanol from plant fibres, Greenfield’s cob technology "is a different approach," he said, adding, "It’s a safer approach, and it provides relatively immediate profitability potential."
The cellulosic residue left behind is also much cleaner than that created by other research institutions attempting to make cellulosic ethanol "from scratch," he said.
Two world-class partners are involved with Greenfield in the corn cob initiative, including a prominent enzyme maker and a company involved with the specialized washing processes employed by the pulp and paper industry. "They feel they have the scale-up capability, with their engineering strength, to work with us, so we’re pretty excited."
Greenfield has tested the concept with cobs from two farms using modified combines, one in Ontario and one in the U.S., he said.
By volume, cobs are much lighter than kernels, which poses a transportation challenge, Gallant conceded. "The problem with cobs is that they weigh nothing. A truckload of cobs is like, 10 tonnes, so it’s an inefficient load."
Still, "all of the cobs in Ontario would be the equivalent [ethanol output] of one plant like Chatham," he pointed out. "We’d like to believe that farmers are going to get excited about it."
He said the firm is similarly exploring the possibility of applying the same technology to make ethanol from Miscanthus, a type of prairie grass that can be grown on marginal farmland.
Greenfield is also looking at using Miscanthus as a fuel for co-generation electricity plants, pressing the grass into combustible cubes in that case.
In another alternative energy project, the company and a partner are running an experimental facility that captures methane from sorted municipal waste at Edmonton, Alberta.
Biorefinery capability
In the end, it’s all about finding even more ways to harvest the sun’s power for energy and — into the future — chemical purposes.
"The oil and chemical industry, where I spent 35 years, basically does the same thing," Gallant remarked with a tone of irony. "Except they put a few million years between the sun shining ... and extracting the crude oil or natural gas, which are the feedstocks for most chemicals."
A biorefinery effectively "short circuits" the long wait by relying on the immediate output of a sunlight-capturing crop, to produce alchohol "a basic component of most chemicals you’re familiar with," he said, describing this business model as a very attractive one. '>
SOYBEANS IN STORE HIGHER, CORN LOWER-STATSCAN
02/05/10
From StatsCan
Total stocks of soybeans reached 2.2 millions tonnes, up 9.2% from December 31, 2008, the result of an increase in production in Ontario in 2009. The five-year average is 2.2 million tonnes.
In Ontario, on-farm stocks rose 21.9% to 975 000 tonnes, while Quebec on-farm stocks decreased 14.6% to 205 000 tonnes.
Total stocks of grain corn were down 8.3% from December 31, 2008, to 8.6 million tonnes, the result of less production in 2009. The five-year average is 8.7 million tonnes.
On-farm stocks fell in both Ontario and Quebec. Commercial stocks of grain corn (-2.6%) also declined.
CHATHAM-KENT 4-H RALLY NIGHT RECOGNIZES TOP CLUBS
02/08/10
JIMSONWEED POISONING ASSOCIATED WITH A HOMEMADE STEW
02/05/10
From the Centre for Disease Control- MARYLAND -
Ed. Note - Please read this abreviated story and check the editorial comment at the end.
In the early morning hours of July 9, 2008, six adult family members were admitted to a hospital emergency department in Maryland with hallucinations, confusion, mydriasis, and tachycardia of approximately 3--4 hours duration. Approximately 4--5 hours earlier, all six family members had shared a meal of homemade stew and bread. Subsequent investigation by the Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services (MCDHHS) and the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (MDHMH) determined that the stew contained jimsonweed (Datura stramonium), a plant in the nightshade family that contains atropine and scopolamine (1) and has been associated with anticholinergic-type poisoning.
The six affected persons came from one family and included three men and three women ranging in age from 38 to 80 years (median age: 42 years). All six shared a meal of homemade stew and bread at approximately 9:00 p.m. on July 8, 2008.
Approximately 1 hour later, another relative arrived at the home and discovered the six affected family members laughing, confused, and complaining of hallucinations, dizziness, and thirst. One of the family members vomited. The unaffected relative called emergency medical services, and all six were transported to the hospital by ambulance.
On admission to the emergency department, two of the six patients were unconscious. The other four were awake and had altered mental status; complete history of meal preparation and food exposures could not be obtained. Physical examinations revealed tachycardia and dilated, sluggishly reactive pupils in five of the six patients. Temperatures ranged from 98.0ºF (36.7ºC) to 99.4ºF (37.4ºC). Respirations ranged from 17 to 22 breaths per minute.
During the next 6 hours in the emergency department, the six patients continued to experience tachycardia, mydriasis, and altered mental status. One remained unconscious. The others demonstrated confusion, aggression, agitation, disorganized speech, incoherence, and hallucinations. All six were admitted to the hospital, five to the intensive-care unit. The unaffected relative reported to providers that pesticides had been sprayed on mint leaves that might have been incorporated into the stew (Ed Note. Boy, that's a red herring!). However, a treating physician consulted the poison control center hotline and established that the illnesses were not consistent with cholinergic poisoning, as would be expected with ingestion of organophosphate pesticides, but were consistent with anticholinergic poisoning.
Investigators interviewed unaffected family members about meal preparation and asked them to collect samples of the plants they thought had been used in the stew. One plant was identified as mint. Interviews with the patients on July 10 confirmed that all patients had consumed the stew and no one else had eaten the stew. The preparer of the stew recalled that it consisted mainly of potatoes but also included garlic, onion, tomato, curry powder, and leaves from two plants growing in the yard. One plant was confirmed to be mint. The meal preparer did not know what the other plant was, only that it grew wild in the yard.
On July 10, the public health investigators and a horticulture expert visited the home, located in a suburban Maryland neighborhood, to verify the stew ingredients and identify any ingredients that could cause anticholinergic poisoning. They found leftover stew, which was green in color with cooked leaves visible in the bottom of the pot. They also discovered plant material in the kitchen trash, identified by the horticulture expert as jimsonweed. In the outdoor location described by the stew preparer, the horticulture expert identified jimsonweed plants with recent cutting marks.
Ed Note. There's more to the story but suffice to say the patients were not asked to check their brains at registration desk. Sounds like a quick study on weed identification is needed here for city folks.
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