Voluntary CWB Unlikely: Toews

The working group report says farmers are disappointed the Canadian Wheat Board hasn t come up with a plan for transitioning into an open market. The board says it has presented options, but Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz refuses to acknowledge or accept them. Unfortunately the minister has never sat down with the board to even

Highs Likely In For Canola Market As Harvest Ends

column Phil-Franz Warkentin CNSC The ICE Futures Canada canola market saw some wide price swings during the week ended Sept. 30, finishing with declines after testing downside resistance on a number of occasions. On the whole, the bearish factors in the market outweigh anything supportive, but a short-covering bounce does remain a possibility going forward.


Big U.S. Wheat, Corn Stocks Send Prices Tumbling Anew

washington/reuters U.S. corn and wheat stocks were much larger than expected at the end of the summer, providing a larger buffer against this year s reduced harvest and driving some grain prices to their lowest levels this year. In a sign that near-record grain prices curbed demand far more than analysts had anticipated, inventories of

Kane:

Harvest and Glenn placed second and third For the third year in a row Kane is the wheat with the most acreage in Manitoba, followed by Harvest and Glenn, according to the Canadian Wheat Board s 2011 crop variety survey. Kane, a Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS) wheat, accounted for 23.5 per cent of Manitoba


Dry Weather Remains A Concern

REUTERS / The U.S. Department of Agriculture in its weekly crop progress report on Sept. 26 said 15 per cent of the U.S. corn crop had been harvested, up from 10 per cent a week ago and slightly behind the five-year average of 16 per cent. Sixty-three per cent of the corn crop was mature

Wheat Cash Advances To Be Administered By Canola Growers

Ottawa has stripped the administration of wheat, durum and barley cash advances from the Canadian Wheat Board and transferred it to the Canadian Canola Growers Association. The change, announced Sept. 29, makes sense, District 10 wheat board director Bill Toews said in an interview. Given the reluctance of the government to give any regulated access


Farmers Reap $35 Million In Transportation Savings

STAFF / The Canadian Wheat Board says it saved western Canadian farmers $35 million in grain transportation during the previous crop year, through programs designed to reduce producers costs for moving their grain to port. Farmers bear all the costs of grain transportation, so the CWB is constantly looking for ways to keep those costs

Harvest Smoothly Heads Into The Home Stretch

crop report Southwest Region Little to no rainfall in the southwest region brought harvest to 95 per cent complete; only a few fields of late-seeded canola and cereal crops remain. Most canola that remains unharvested has high green seed counts due to the frost. Producers are waiting for a rain to help reduce green seed


KAP Bows Out Of CWB Fight

The Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP), once a steadfast supporter of the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB), accepts the board will lose its single desk. Now Manitoba s largest farm group wants to ensure farmers benefit from the controversial change, says KAP president Doug Chorney. We re just facing the reality of the circumstances that we find

In Brief… – for Sep. 29, 2011

Cargill expands West Fargo plant:Cargill will spend an estimated $50 million rebuilding and expanding its oilseed-processing plant in West Fargo, the company has announced. The existing facility has served us well since we built it 30 years ago, and we are now looking at rebuilding it to meet the needs of our customers for the