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Gavilon Grain has sold its facility at Grand Forks, N.D. to Viterra. (Gavilon.com)
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Viterra buys North Dakota elevator

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Prairie grain handler Viterra is expanding its reach in eastern North Dakota with a deal for Gavilon Grain’s elevator at Grand Forks. Regina-based Viterra said Monday it has closed its acquisition of Omaha-based Gavilon’s Grand Forks site for an undisclosed sum, and plans “immediate capital upgrades” for the elevator. The Grand Forks site, which was […] Read more
A view from Minnesota Soybean Processors’ crush plant and biodiesel facility at Brewster, Minn. (MNSoy.com)
Crops

U.S. soy grower co-op plans North Dakota crush plant

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A U.S. soybean growers’ co-operative has picked its site for what it says would be the first soybean processing plant of its kind in North Dakota. Minnesota Soybean Processors and its North Dakota Soybean Processors (NDSP) subsidiary announced Tuesday their site will be on 150 acres near Spiritwood, N.D., 260 km south of the Manitoba […] Read more
(Bruce Fritz photo courtesy ARS/USDA)
Crops

North American sunflowers looking good early

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CNS Canada –– Sunflower crops in key growing regions of North America are in relatively good shape early in the season, according to reports. However, those good conditions have put some nearby pressure on values, with spot pricing expected to take some direction from the weather and acreage reports over the next few weeks. Sunflower […] Read more
North Dakota’s Legislative Assembly in 2014. (Governor.nd.gov)
Livestock

North Dakotans put ‘corporate’ farming to vote

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Reuters — North Dakotans are voting Tuesday in a referendum to repeal a law enacted last year that changed decades of family-farming rules in the state by allowing corporations to own and operate dairy and hog farms. The North Dakota Farmers Union and other groups that collected signatures to put the referendum on the ballot […] Read more
Durum wheat. (Gipsa.usda.gov)
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North Dakota wheat acres seen likely to beat forecast

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CNS Canada — North Dakota farmers will be seeding less spring wheat this year — but the acreage may not be down by as much as the U.S. Department of Agriculture now forecasts. In its Prospective Plantings report, released last Thursday, USDA forecast North Dakota spring wheat area for 2016 (excluding durum) at 5.7 million […] Read more
(Stephen Ausmus photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Two more states’ eggs, poultry allowed into Canada

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Cross-border travellers may again bring raw poultry meat, eggs and live birds into Canada from North Dakota and Missouri. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency last week shortened its list of U.S. states under avian influenza-related restrictions to just one. Indiana remains under limits imposed in January after highly pathogenic (“high-path”) H7N8 avian flu turned up at […] Read more
(CHS Inc.)
Crops, Markets

CHS locks in fertilizer supply, scraps plan for N.D. plant

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Reuters — U.S.-based agribusiness CHS Inc. said it would invest US$2.8 billion in a unit of fertilizer producer CF Industries to secure nitrogen fertilizer supplies. This is the third deal in a week in the highly fragmented global fertilizer industry, which is trying to cope with weak prices caused by excess supply. CHS will have […] Read more
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U.S. spring wheat yield projections highest ever

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Fargo, N.D. (Reuters) — Yield potential for spring wheat grown in the northern U.S. Plains was projected as the highest on record, with the crop benefiting from timely planting and cool weather, according to results from an annual crop tour. Scouts on the Wheat Quality Council’s three-day tour of North Dakota, the top spring wheat […] Read more

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