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Canadian grain farmers enjoying good times

By Allan Dawson December 4, 2012

It’s a great time to be a farmer in Western Canada, but don’t expect the good times to last forever, grain industry officials said during the Fields on Wheels conference in Winnipeg Nov. 9. “This is truly a time of opportunity,” said Richard Wansbutter, Viterra’s vice-president of government and commercial relations. “I really think these

Cereals, Livestock, News, Oilseeds

Europe lifts import duties on feed grains in bid to reduce price pressure

December 1, 2012

reuters / The European Union’s cereals management committee has extended the suspension of import duties for quotas of feed wheat and barley until June. This summer, high grain prices prompted the EU to temporarily lift import duties of 12 euros per tonne for low- and medium-quality wheat and 16 euros a tonne for feed barley.

Cereals, Crops, News

Post-CWB monopoly system receives record grain volume Q1

By Allan Dawson November 30, 2012

Concerns that Canada’s grain pipeline would initially struggle in the wake of ending the Canadian Wheat Board’s monopoly have proven groundless. A record 14 million tonnes of grain were delivered to the Canadian grain-handling system during the first 15 weeks of the crop year, Cargill Canada president Len Penner told the Grain Industry Symposium here

Cereals, Crops, News

Canada’s grain system world’s best

By Allan Dawson November 30, 2012

For years Canada’s grain industry engaged in self-flagellation, condemning the grain-handling and transportation system as inefficient. Not anymore. “We have arguably the world’s most efficient handling network,” Don Solman, Richardson’s vice-president of finance and chief financial officer told the Grain Industry Symposium Nov. 21. “Back in the 1990s, basically the network was rebuilt with large

Cereals, Crops, News

Wheat and barley varietal research benefits producers

By Western Grains Research Foundation December 1, 2012

Arecent return-on-investment study commissioned by the Western Grains Research Foundation (WGRF) has estimated that investment in wheat and barley varietal research is providing producers with a very high return. This study calculates that on average every producer checkoff dollar invested into wheat varietal research has returned $20.40 in value to the producer. Barley varietal research

Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets, News

CWB looks to cash market to attract more wheat

By Terryn Shiells November 30, 2012

Sign-up deadlines for CWB’s pool programs have come and gone, but the company is still looking for more grain. “We’ve been able to get some really good sales for the tonnes that we have now, and movement has been really good,” said Gord Flaten, CWB’s vice-president of grain procurement. “So looking to the rest of

Cereals, Crops, News

Big, early and high-quality harvest eases transition to post-single-desk era

By Allan Dawson November 29, 2012

Alarge and high-quality crop along with an early harvest was just what the doctor ordered to ease the transition to the post-single-desk era, says the CWB’s chief operating officer. “I can’t imagine what we’d all be going through… if we were talking about a crop that was predominantly (No.) 3 red (spring wheat) with falling

Cereals, Opinion

The reason farmers sought market power back then

November 29, 2012

The following contains excerpts from comments to the recent Fields on Wheels conference by Paul Earl, who has a PhD in history and is acting director of the University of Manitoba’s Transport Institute. Earl spent many years working for United Grain Growers and the Western Canadian Grain Growers Association lobbying the federal government to end

Cereals, Crops, News

Regulations, farmer voice needed in post-CWB monopoly world

By Allan Dawson November 29, 2012

Two vocal advocates for deregulating Western Canada’s wheat marketing are now suggesting farmers need a strong voice and new regulations to protect them from the open market. While free enterprise is the best economic system, it only works when transactions are voluntary and there is true competition, Paul Earl, a former lobbyist against the Canadian

Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets, News

Italy to launch durum wheat futures contract

By Catherine Horn November 29, 2012

Reuters / Borsa Italiana is set to launch Europe’s first futures market for durum wheat in November to cater to demand from the continent’s Italian-led pasta makers, but building sufficient trading volumes will be a challenge, traders say. Grain futures generally take a long time to attract a large trading base, and the minimal volumes

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Barley

Canadian grain farmers enjoying good times

Europe lifts import duties on feed grains in bid to reduce price pressure

Post-CWB monopoly system receives record grain volume Q1

Canada’s grain system world’s best

Wheat and barley varietal research benefits producers

CWB looks to cash market to attract more wheat

Big, early and high-quality harvest eases transition to post-single-desk era

The reason farmers sought market power back then

Regulations, farmer voice needed in post-CWB monopoly world

Italy to launch durum wheat futures contract

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