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Former CWB Minister Reg Alcock Passes

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff October 20, 2011

Reg Alcock, the Winnipeg member of Parliament who led then-prime minister Paul Martin s political defence of the Canadian Wheat Board, died early last Friday of a reported heart attack at age 63. Alcock, the MP for the Winnipeg South riding from 1993 to 2006, served in Martin s cabinet from late 2003 to early

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Canola Futures Recovering On Fresh Chinese Demand

By Dwayne Klassen October 20, 2011

Dwayne Klassen CNSA Canola futures on the ICE Futures Canada trading platform managed a rally during the week ended Oct. 14, recovering some of the losses experienced in the previous reporting periods. Confirmation of fresh Chinese demand for Canadian canola helped to generate some of the price strength, as did the reluctance of Prairie producers

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Argentine Wheat And Corn Benefit From Rains

October 20, 2011

Buenos Aires/Reuters Rain over the last 10 days in Argentina s central grain area revitalized parched wheat fields and helped farmers with their corn sowing, but dry weather could return, a forecaster said Monday. This season got off to a rough start as planting was slowed by dry soils, but heavy rainfall last week allowed

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U.S. Hog, Poultry Firms To Extend Use Of Feed Wheat

October 20, 2011

chicago/reuters The surprise drop in U.S. corn feed demand this summer may be only the beginning of a yearlong reduction as chicken and hog producers break a long-held aversion to blending more wheat into rations. What initially began as a summer fling sparked by an unprecedented premium for corn prices over wheat has turned into

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Kazakhstan Back In The Grain Export Business

By Reuters October 20, 2011

Kazakhstan s state-owned grain trader will return to the export market this season, shipping up to 1.5 million tonnes of what promises to be the country s biggest post- Soviet grain crop, the head of the company said. Beibitkhan Kabdrakhmanov, chairman of the management board at the Food Contract Corporat ion, forecast that Kazakhstan would

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Maintaining A Supply Management System

By Shannon VanRaes October 20, 2011

co-operator staff/ portage la prairie Protecting the future of supply management wasn t on the agenda at the October 11 district meeting of the Dairy Farmers of Manitoba, but it did generate discussion. I always have concern about supply management, we try to maintain the position we are in, said Norbert Rey, who farms with

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High Cost Of Feed Barley In Manitoba Taking A Toll On Livestock Profits

By Daniel Winters October 20, 2011

Spring flooding and a hot, dry summer prevented many Manitoba farmers from getting a decent barley crop, and now livestock feeders are feeling the pinch from tighter supplies. Brent Swain, a grain buyer for FeedRite in Brandon, said he is offering $5.05 per bushel for top-grade feed barley, and $4.25 for high-vomitoxin samples. It s

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Brothers Capitalize On Specialty Brews With Local Flavour

By Lorraine Stevenson October 20, 2011

Now they re coming back to rural Manitoba, this time with plans to start up the first estate brewery in Canada. An estate brewery differs from other breweries by producing its own ingredients. We re farmers at heart, and we just sort of wanted to get back to the land, said Lawrence, who has just

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Farmers Fight Farmers In Canadian Wheat Board Brawl

By Allan Dawson October 20, 2011

Mostly it has been farmers fighting the government over the Canadian Wheat Board s future, now it s farmer against farmer. Three western Manitoba producers paid for an inserted advertisement in the Manitoba Co-operatorlast week accusing the Keystone Agriculture Producers (KAP) of not working to save the Canadian Wheat Board and suggesting KAP members request

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Legislation To End CWB Monopoly Being Tabled This Week

By Allan Dawson October 20, 2011

Legislation to end the Canadian Wheat Board s monopoly was to be tabled in the House of Commons Oct. 18, but the board is fighting back and is urging farmers to fight too. (Agriculture) Minister Ritz and Prime Minister Harper would like you to believe that this is a done deal, wheat board chair Allen

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