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Pre-seeding risk premium being built into canola

By Dwayne Klassen April 15, 2012

The nearby May and July canola contracts on the ICE Futures Canada trading platform suffered some minor declines during the week ended April 5, while the remainder of the futures saw small to modest advances. Profit-taking sparked some of the losses in the two nearby futures, as did an increase in hedge selling by grain

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Former CWB directors appealing Queen’s Bench decision

By Allan Dawson April 15, 2012

Eight former farmer-elected Canadian Wheat Board directors are appealing Manitoba Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Shane Perlmutter’s Feb. 24 decision not to protect the board’s single desk while the courts determine the legality of a federal law killing it. Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz is asking why the directors don’t “move on,” but the directors contend

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Budget pushes CGC changes

By Allan Dawson April 7, 2012

The Canadian Grain Commission, grain industry watchdog and wheat quality guardian for 100 years this month, won’t be financed by taxpayers after 2014. Last week’s federal budget included $44 million to help the commission transition to full self-sufficiency over the next two years. The federal government also plans to reintroduce legislation to “modernize” the commission.

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Nancy Edwards: Keen for the challenges of wheat research

April 8, 2012

By Val Ominski When Nancy Edwards, a biological technology grad from Red River Community College, joined the Grain Research Lab as a technician in 1976, little did she know that one day she would be the scientist responsible for the lab’s bread wheat research group. Edwards went on to achieve her PhD in Food Science

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One GRL scientist and his revolutionary technology

April 7, 2012

By Val Ominski Protein has always made the wheat world go round, but it became even more important in the mid-1960s when some of the world’s major wheat producers began selling wheat according to protein content. In response, the Canadian Grain Commission developed a method for segregating wheat based on protein content — thereby increasing

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Quality assurance through world-class research stands the test of time

April 7, 2012

By Val Ominski The bright blue paint, on the Allis Chalmers roll stands, looks conspicuously out of place among the gleaming modern metal in the pilot-scale flour mill on the 16th floor of the CGC Grain Research Lab. Miller Dave Turnock thinks they are about 80 years old and have also seen duty at the

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Fair treatment for Western farmers began 100 years ago

By Ron Friesen April 7, 2012

It was more than a century ago but bitter conflict between farmers and the early western Canadian grain industry still resonates in the childhood memories of old-timers like Harvey English. “It was highway robbery. That’s what it was in those days,” says English, 94. “They were just stealing everything off the farmer that they could

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Cost versus benefit

By Allan Dawson April 7, 2012

Canada’s wheat-grading system might be costing more than the benefit it returns, says Richardson International’s vice-president of corporate affairs and general counsel, Jean-Marc Ruest. To ensure the quality of Canadian milling wheat-variety registration and wheat classes are regulated. There are many grades within each class, plus differentials for protein content. “People aren’t sure if the

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CGC guarantees Canadian grain quality worldwide

By Ron Friesen April 7, 2012

The baker is already planning his production and quality-control program for months ahead, based on grain from halfway around the world he has never laid eyes on, much less inspected. But he isn’t worried. He knows he will almost certainly get exactly the right kind of wheat with the precise specifications he requested. He also

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CWB believes it has the inside edge on Japan sales

By Allan Dawson April 7, 2012

CWB officials told farmers meeting here it has the inside track on the lucrative Japanese market for Canadian milling wheat. “I’ve just come from Japan this week and we are working very hard with the Japanese to try to have the CWB in a very prominent place with regard to supplying the Japanese industry with

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Cereals

Pre-seeding risk premium being built into canola

Former CWB directors appealing Queen’s Bench decision

Budget pushes CGC changes

Nancy Edwards: Keen for the challenges of wheat research

One GRL scientist and his revolutionary technology

Quality assurance through world-class research stands the test of time

Fair treatment for Western farmers began 100 years ago

Cost versus benefit

CGC guarantees Canadian grain quality worldwide

CWB believes it has the inside edge on Japan sales

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