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G3 has a new CEO

By Allan Dawson, GFM Network News April 4, 2018

There’s been a change at the top of Canada’s newest major grain company. G3 Canada’s CEO Karl Gerrand left the grain company Tuesday and has been replaced by Don Chapman, the Manitoba Co-operator has learned. G3 in 2015 purchased 50.1 per cent of the Canadian Wheat Board from the federal government and brought in Gerrand,

Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: Wheat surges as USDA says crop conditions worst since 2002

By GFM Network News, Karl Plume April 3, 2018

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat futures surged on Tuesday, led by a spike in hard red winter wheat prices, after the U.S. Department of Agriculture rated the U.S. Plains crop in the worst shape in 16 years. Soybeans and corn rebounded from the prior session’s declines on spillover support from wheat and as cold,

Former agriculture minister and Conservative MP Gerry Ritz speaking to the House of Commons agriculture committee’s emergency meeting on the grain transportation backlog in Ottawa March 19.

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Rail had it easier when the wheat board existed

According to Gerry Ritz, that’s because the CWB shipped grain in ‘dribs and drabs’

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff April 3, 2018

Former agriculture minister and Conservative MP Gerry Ritz appeared before the House of Commons agriculture committee during an emergency meeting March 19 in Ottawa to discuss the grain transportation backlog in Western Canada. Alistair MacGregor, the NDP MP for Cowichan —Malahat — Langford in British Columbia asked Ritz about the former Canadian Wheat Board’s role

John Morriss. (File photo by Dave Bedard)

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Morriss, Pakosh, Streichs named to ag hall of fame

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff April 3, 2018

The Manitoba farmers who developed the rotary separator for combines, the co-founder of Versatile and the long-time editorial director for the website you’re reading are bound for Manitoba’s Agricultural Hall of Fame. The hall of fame on Monday unofficially announced its 2018 group of inductees, ahead of its annual meeting Wednesday in Portage la Prairie

Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: Soybeans sink on plentiful stocks, trade tensions

By GFM Network News, Karl Plume April 2, 2018

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures were lower on Monday as early-session support from a lower-than-anticipated government forecast on spring plantings faded and the market’s focus turned to ample U.S. supplies and rising trade tensions with top importer China. Corn futures notched a 2-1/2-week high on the U.S. Agriculture Department’s bullish acreage forecast late

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Senate passes amended version of transport bill

The move ensures further delay in passing legislation to address ongoing rail service concerns

By Alex Binkley April 2, 2018

Hours before the start of a two-week Parliamentary recess, the Senate passed the transport modernization bill with 19 amendments that farm groups and others were seeking. However the move sends the bill back to the Commons for approval. As Transport Minister Marc Garneau opposed any amendments to it in an appearance just before the Senate

A close-up of emerging corn seedlings north of London, Ont. on May 24, 2016. (Ralph Pearce photo)

Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: Corn, soy soar on bullish USDA plantings forecast

By GFM Network News, Julie Ingwersen March 29, 2018

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn futures jumped nearly four per cent on Thursday and soybeans surged more than two per cent after the U.S. Department of Agriculture stunned traders by projecting a year-on-year decline in soybean plantings and a larger-than-expected drop in corn acres. Chicago Board of Trade wheat futures followed the firm trend,

Crops

Senate hands back transport bill, with changes

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff March 29, 2018

Federal legislation sought by farm groups wanting improvements to rail service for the grain sector is on its way back from the Senate to the House of Commons. Senators on Thursday afternoon passed Bill C-49, the Transportation Modernization Act, on third reading — but with several amendments proposed Wednesday by the standing Senate committee on

Proposed changes to rail shipping legislation could be deregulation by stealth, the NFU worries.

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NFU worried C-49 will help railways, hurt farmers

Terry Boehm believes the new legislation gives the railways too much wiggle room on grain service

By Allan Dawson March 29, 2018

The National Farmers Union (NFU) fears Bill C-49, the Transportation Modernization Act, will further deregulate the railways, resulting in poorer service for western Canadian grain farmers, not better. The opposite view is held by most farm groups, grain companies and even the railways, all of whom want the legislation to revise the Canada Transportation Act

Crops, Markets

USDA sees soy, corn acreage falling as supplies hit record

By GFM Network News, Mark Weinraub March 29, 2018

Washington | Reuters — U.S. farmers will cut their plantings of both soybeans and corn this spring with supplies of both commodities at record highs, the U.S. Agriculture Department said on Thursday. Soybean plantings, despite the expected drop, will top corn acreage for the first time since 1983, USDA said. Wheat seedings will rise by

Daily Network News

New strategies needed for Canadian agriculture to stand out in global trade

Feed Grains Weekly: Cash prices for wheat, barley largely flat

The Canadian GMO mustard wars: Dijon vs canola

Cereals

G3 has a new CEO

U.S. grains: Wheat surges as USDA says crop conditions worst since 2002

Rail had it easier when the wheat board existed

Morriss, Pakosh, Streichs named to ag hall of fame

U.S. grains: Soybeans sink on plentiful stocks, trade tensions

Senate passes amended version of transport bill

U.S. grains: Corn, soy soar on bullish USDA plantings forecast

Senate hands back transport bill, with changes

NFU worried C-49 will help railways, hurt farmers

USDA sees soy, corn acreage falling as supplies hit record

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