The Canadian Wheat Board is in an intense battle to maintain its wheat and barley trading monopoly. The Canadian prairie provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba have been the source of 15% of all wheat, 55% of durum wheat and 10% of barley in world trade during the last 10 years. A single organization, the [...]
North African nation is experiencing rapid growth in its feed and meat industries. An hour’s drive inland from the rapidly growing metropolis of Agadir, Morocco, a major agricultural cooperative, Copag, has begun a pilot program for confined feeding of cattle. The goal is to increase the quality and volume of local beef production, which still [...]
PDF version. Potential of grain-based biofuels production could change agricultural dynamics in the U.K. The United Kingdom (U.K.) is extraordinarily productive when it comes to one grain crop — wheat. A gentle, moist, maritime climate allows yields of seven to eight tonnes per hectare (ha) for a crop of 15 million tonnes, accounting for roughly [...]
The Australian wheat exporter, reeling from a recent scandal, will likely lose its single desk monopoly. For more than 70 years, the Australian Wheat Board, more commonly known as AWB Limited, has, for the most part, been the sole exporter of Australian wheat. That’s significant since exports can be up to 14 million tonnes out [...]
PDF version. The central Asian nation has become one of the world’s biggest wheat and flour exporters despite high transportation costs to international markets. For centuries, Kazakh herdsmen grazed their animals in the summer on the sub-Siberian grasslands of northern central Asia and wintered them far to the south and east in the more temperate [...]