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	Your Daily Market Update With Vicki Michinski, Grain Originator Great Lakes Grain May 17, 2012

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	Great Lakes Grain Direct Deposit
	Great Lakes Grain offers direct deposit payments We are pleased to offer you easy and efficient direct deposit services for your grain and oilseed business. Direct deposit offers a number of benefits including: ·  You will no longer have to manually deposit your cheque. · You will have immediate access to your funds. · Postal delays and disruptions are eliminated. We will send you confirmation of our deposit to your account in one of the following ways: · Electronic information to your email address. · Facsimile to your fax phone number. ·Through your branch representative. Complete details and a downloadable enrolment form

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	AGRIS Co-operative is pleased to be once again sponsoring the TOMcast and Irrigation Management website from Weather INnovations Incorporated. This novel website integrates two of the most critical factors in healthy crop production - an assessment of tomato disease risk and the ability to manage soil water status. This website provides key information in a timely manner.    Would you like to become a TOMcast subscriber?   FREE Sign –Up Here! Registered subscribers login here

	Glencoe Expansion
	The board of directors of AGRIS Co-operative has approved a capital expenditure at its Glencoe branch to construct a new 600 MT capacity fertilizer storage warehouse. The new fertilizer storage warehouse will more than double the current capacity and allows AGRIS to keep pace with the increasing agronomic demands of its farmer-owners. “There have been significant changes in plant food with new formulations and the increased use of micro-nutrients,” says Jim Campbell, general manager for AGRIS Co-operative. “Protected nitrogen products like ESN are a whole new category of nitrogen fertilizer that results in the need for not only increased tonnage, but the flexibility in our products stored on site,” Campbell added. The Glencoe branch has also added a custom air-flow applicator this spring to provide enhanced custom application services, including variable rate capabilities. Construction of the new fertilizer warehouse has started and expected to be completed by the end of May. “This investment will help improve customer service and provide AGRIS an opportunity to preposition product and take ownership at advantageous times,” say Larry Pajot, AGRIS Co-operative board president. “The net result will allow AGRIS to provide better value for our customers and farmer-owners” added Pajot.
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	Maximum Price Contracting
	Maximum Price Contracting Is this a program that fits you or your business? Are you concerned about the potential of rising fuel costs? Would it benefit you to know your fuel prices would not exceed a set price for six months?   Would it benefit you to know that that if fuel prices dropped in that time period, you would recieve the benefit of the lower pricing?   Would knowing your fuel costs for the next six months assist you in budgeting for your business?   If you answered yes to any of these questions please follow this link to find out more on how AGRIS Co-operative can help you!

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	Weather INnovations
	Weather INnovations Weather Central Today in the Researchers Corner Dale Cowan CCA-ON and Clark Aitken CCA-ON According to Cowan and Aitken, planting of commercial corn in southwestern Ontario is complete and seed corn is getting under way nicely. The season is well ahead of the normal schedule, which they say will have implications for both insects and weeds. What’s your analysis of the early start this year? We probably had 65-70% of the corn in before the end of April, which is just unheard of. Especially compared to last year when we didn’t even get going until June. It’s a huge difference and what that’s going to mean is a higher yield potential for full-season hybrids and hopefully an earlier harvest and drier corn. We’ve had some pretty good planting conditions too, the soils are fit, with good moisture levels to bring the plants up to emergence – we’re off to a good start Read complete article

	CBC Radio One - Windsor
	Black Cutworm Moth Listen to Southern Co-operative Service's Senior Agronomist, Dale Cowan interviewed on The Early Shift with Tony Doucette on CBC One Windsor

	Dale Cowan Interview
	Cutworms could be more of a problem for corn this year   Listen to Southern Co-operative Service's - Senior Agronomist, Dale Cowan's interview with Blackburn AGRIMEDIA.ca

	Crop Solutions that Work # 13
	Western Bean Cutworm - Monitoring Traps By Phil Cameron and Morgan Kluka Summer Interns - University of Guelph   With the exceptionally warm weather of this year bringing the expectance of earlier crops, it is also important to consider early insect emergence. By monitoring the Western Bean Cutworm (WBC) moth flight of your corn or edible bean fields, you can begin to predict when your crops will become most threatened. Tracking moth flight can be done by using a trapping system. Read complete Crop Solutions that Work #13

	CropPest
	CropPest Issue # 1 TOPICS:  Pre-Plant Dandelion Control In Soybeans WBC Trapping Network Alfalfa Weevil and Black Cutworm SWCDD 2012 Testing Results for Herbicide Resistant Weeds Everyone Knows It’s Windy Weevils and Whatnot! Efficacy of Wheat Diseases Read CropPest #1

	Crop Solutions that Work # 12
	Spring Update Articles Courtesy of GROWMARK Agronomy Division  PURSUIT OF MAXIMUM YIELD ESSENTIALS                          Pursuit of Maximum Yield continues to be a program of interest with many growers. Lessons learned from 2011 suggest we need all of the five factors (listed below) in order to minimize the risk of any of them being yield limiting factors (Law of the Minimum). Leaving out any of the following five factors may result in a disappointing outcome to the trial. Read complete Crop Solutions that Work #12

	Crop Solutions that Work # 11
	Black Cutworm   By Dale Cowan - CCA-ON  Senior Agronomist/Sales Manager Southern Co-operative Services         The black cutworm is a corn pest to some degree each year in southwestern Ontario. This year is no exception and may well be a bigger issue. The early spring resulted in early green up of weedy areas in field. This has provided ample egg laying sites for the adult moths that blow in on storm fronts from the US Corn Belt. Read complete Crop Solutons that Work #11

	Stoney Point Elevator Expansion
	Construction of a new 565,000 steel grain bin at the AGRIS Co-operative Stoney Point location has started. The more than $3 million investment by AGRIS will significantly improve unloading times and storage capacity for the co-operatives member-owners and customers in the Stoney Point area. AGRIS Co-operative board president, Larry Pajot told owners that, “This investment by AGRIS Co-operative will help strengthen our farmer owner’s ability to deliver their crops more efficiently and take better advantage of marketing opportunities through our partner, Great Lakes Grain.” BDM Millwrights will manage construction of the project which will also see intake capacity increase to 25,000 bushels an hour and overall storage increased to 1.6 MM bushels. Construction of the new steel grain bin, receiving pit and legs is expected to start immediately with completion expected early this September and in time for fall harvest
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	Monsanto Scholarship Opportunity
	For the 22nd year, we are proud to offer a scholarship opportunity to grade 12 students entering into an agricultural post secondary program. Last year, 11 students from Ontario (and 51 across Canada) each earned a $1,500 scholarship by submitting an application and a short essay.  This year – entries must be submitted by May 25.   The application is available at:  http://www.monsanto.ca/ourcommitments/Pages/OpportunityScholarship.aspx

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	In 1933 the Soil Erosion Service was established; later known as Soil Conservation Service, and today as Natural Resources Conservation Service
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