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Co-operating with its competitors

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Attendance was down at the annual Canadian Wheat Board breakfast at Ag Days this year, but the farmers who came were encouraged by what they heard. “That just made my day. Now we have a choice,” said Jake Hofer, a wheat producer from Treesbank Colony after listening to a presentation by Gord Flaten, the board’s
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Monitor open market, Goodale says

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The new open wheat and barley market promised for western Canadian farmers starting Aug. 1 should be monitored by an independent institution so the findings can help guide future policies, says Saskatchewan Liberal MP Ralph Goodale. “Unless you start working on this right now from the beginning and follow it through from Day 1 you
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New twist in wheat board legal battle

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The battle over the future of the Canadian Wheat Board has moved off the farm, out of the parliamentary chambers and into the courts. Two new court actions were launched early in the new year, including a class-action lawsuit claiming $15.4 billion is owed to farmers upon the dismantling of Canadian Wheat Board assets. “The
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Market steady, but uncertainty ahead

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Commodity prices may have peaked in 2011, ProFarmer analyst Mike Jubinville told farmers attending the St. Jean Farm Days. “My gut feeling right now is that the heights have already come in,” Jubinville told producers. “It’s not that I’m feeling bearish about the marketplace going into 2012, personally I think that there is going to
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The Jacksons

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We’re a week into January and the temperature continues to hover around zero at the Jackson house. Same as last year, only last year it was zero inside the house, not outside. That was the night when the furnace quit working late in the evening and no one noticed until Andrew awoke in the morning,
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India grain stocks sharply higher

New Delhi / Reuters India’s Jan. 1 wheat stocks at government warehouses were 25.7 million tonnes, more than three times the official target for the quarter ending Mar. 31 government sources said Jan. 9. Rice inventory for the same period was 29.8 million tonnes against a target of 11.8 million tonnes. The wheat target was
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Ritz confident C-18 will win legal nod

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Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz declared the battle for “marketing freedom” all but won in front of a friendly crowd at the 42nd annual Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association convention. Noting that Bill C-18, the Marketing Freedom for Grain Farmers Act, received royal assent on Dec. 15, Ritz cited the “supremacy of Parliament” as meaning that
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Crops briefs, Jan. 12

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Drought dents Brazil crops Sao Paulo/Reuters/ Two important Brazilian corn and soy producers Parana and Rio Grande do Sul made sharp cuts to crop forecasts Jan. 5 after weeks of harsh, dry weather dented prospects for a soy crop that as recently as this week some still expected to be a record. Brazil’s biggest soy
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South American weather shakes up corn, soybeans

Canola futures on the ICE Futures Canada trading platform managed to trend upward over the holiday period ended Jan. 6. Steady demand from the commercial sector provided some of the strength with weather issues in the oilseed-growing areas of South America contributing to the upward momentum. Fresh export business with China further underpinned canola values.

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