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Forecasts call for record acres seeded to canola

By Phil Franz-Warkentin May 3, 2012

Old-crop canola contracts climbed to new highs on the ICE Futures Canada platform during the week ended April 27, as the tight supply situation in Western Canada provided underlying support. Commercials were also scrambling to cover their short positions rather than be forced to make deliveries on the nearby May contract before it comes off

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Seeding in full swing across province

May 3, 2012

Weekly Provincial Summary Favourable weather and seedbed conditions permitted good seeding progress across most regions in Manitoba. Seeding is 10 per cent complete in the southwest region, less than five per cent complete in the northwest region, 50 per cent complete in the central region, 40 per cent complete in the eastern region and 70

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NIRS provides rapid feed-ingredient analysis

By Bernie Peet April 30, 2012

Cost of $40,000 can potentially be paid off within six months on a moderate-size beef or hog operation

The technique of Near Infrared Reflectance Spectrometry (NIRS) analysis is set to change the way livestock producers evaluate feed ingredients and have their rations formulated. Because this technology provides a rapid assessment of a wide range of nutritional parameters, such as energy value, dry matter and protein, the economic value of ingredients such as cereals

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CP can’t move entire crop off the combine

By Allan Dawson April 30, 2012

This just in — the railways won’t move Western Canada’s entire wheat crop off the combine this fall. “To use a cliché in building the church for Easter Sunday, there’s a reality that it’s a seasonal business and we’re responsive on a seasonal basis to the business,” Steve Whitney, CP Rail’s vice-president of marketing and

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Organic grain growers: Turning to “speed dating” to meet buyers

By Daniel Winters April 30, 2012

Growing organic crops can be tough. Finding reliable buyers even tougher. A recent matchmaking event was aimed at helping the two sides of the organic supply-and-demand equation meet in the hopes that the industry might go forth, be fruitful, and multiply. “It’s speed dating,” said Laura Telford, an organic business development specialist with Manitoba

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Province urged to speed up flood compensation

By Allan Dawson April 30, 2012

The flood waters have long receded, but many flood victims are still stuck in limbo. “Some Lake Manitoba people have gotten full compensation, some have got none,” Plumas farmer Lorne Rossnagel told delegates at Keystone Agricultural Producers’ General Council meeting on April 10. “It’s just a real hodgepodge.” KAP has been pressing the province to

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Move to an open market spurring debate on wheat registration system

By Allan Dawson April 30, 2012

The debate is heating up on whether a system that has made Prairie wheat synonymous with top quality is in need of an overhaul. Grain variety registration was a hot topic at the recent Canada Grains Council annual meeting, and while the current system has many defenders, others are calling for significant changes. Having a

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Farmers own CWB assets: KAP, WRAP, APAS

By Allan Dawson April 30, 2012

They’ve given up trying to save the wheat board’s single desk, but three leading farm leaders are still fighting to save the board’s assets, including the contingency fund, for farmers. “I certainly have marching orders from my membership that the assets of the wheat board belong to farmers,” said Doug Chorney, president of Keystone Agricultural

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OUR HISTORY: May 5, 1988

April 30, 2012

A front-page story in our May 5, 1988 issue was an unfortunate sign of things to come, reporting on one of the worst dust storms in recent memory sweeping through the Red River Valley, reducing visibility to a quarter of a mile, with unnamed sources blaming it on “recreational tillage.” Zero-tillage pioneer Jim McCutcheon of

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Iran poised to buy feed grains

April 30, 2012

hamburg / london / reuters / Iran’s government is expected to start buying hundreds of thousands of tonnes of feed grains to help its farmers deal with a shortage of feed for livestock. Western sanctions have made it increasingly difficult for private-sector grain importers to arrange payments because they are frozen out of the global

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Forecasts call for record acres seeded to canola

Seeding in full swing across province

NIRS provides rapid feed-ingredient analysis

CP can’t move entire crop off the combine

Organic grain growers: Turning to “speed dating” to meet buyers

Province urged to speed up flood compensation

Move to an open market spurring debate on wheat registration system

Farmers own CWB assets: KAP, WRAP, APAS

OUR HISTORY: May 5, 1988

Iran poised to buy feed grains

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