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Freedom Cry No Excuse For Dishonest Deliveries

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Alot can be learned while waiting in line at the elevator. One day I observed elevator employees climbing up on the top of a large semitrailer to probe a load of wheat for samples. For most small elevators, this would be considered unusual since the typical load is sampled as it is dumped into the
Cereals, Crops, Oilseeds

Thunder Bay To See More Grain Exports

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Thunder Bay, once the world’s largest grain port, hasn’t even been Canada’s top grain port for years. But there’s hope on the horizon. Populations are growing faster in Africa, the Middle East and Latin America than anywhere else, Rick Steinke, the Canadian Wheat Board’s (CWB) vice-president of logistics told the Fields on Wheels conference in
Cereals, Crops, News

West Coast Wheat Shipments Drop

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Total West Coast grain movement so far this crop year is just a bit off the pace from 2009-10. As of week 18 (Dec. 5) grain terminals in Vancouver and Prince Rupert shipped out almost 6.4 million tonnes of the major grains and oilseeds, down seven per cent compared with the same period a year
Cereals, Grain Markets, Oilseeds

Firm Demand, Tight Supply Support Canola

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The ICE Futures Canada canola market hit some fresh contract highs during the week ended Dec. 10, but also ran into profit-taking that limited the upside. While market participants were still digesting the larger-than-expected production numbers put out by Statistics Canada on Dec. 3, those supplies are also being met with some pretty solid demand
Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets

Drought In U.S. Winter Wheat Fields Worries Experts

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U.S. wheat experts are growing increasingly concerned about the new winter wheat crop in parts of top producer Kansas and other Plains states, as persistently dry conditions erode production potential. Drought conditions are plaguing the entire western third of Kansas, which routinely is the top U.S. wheat-growing state, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor, a
Cereals, Crops, News

Pakistan Lifts Three-Year Ban On Wheat Exports

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Pakistan decided on Dec. 7 to allow the private sector to export wheat, lifting a three-year ban after a bumper crop led to a market surplus. Pakistan, Asia’s third-largest wheat producer, in August deferred earlier plans to export two million tonnes of surplus wheat after summer floods washed away at least 725,000 tonnes of the
Cereals, Crops

Seed Grower Costs To Go Up Slightly In 2011

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Fee increases by the Canadian Seed Growers Association will push the cost of producing pedigreed seed in Canada slightly higher in 2011. “We don’t like increasing fees any more than you like us increasing fees,” CSGA executive director Dale Adolphe told the Manitoba Seed Growers’ Associations’ (MSGA) annual meeting here Dec. 9. But he said
Cereals, Crops, Oilseeds

2010 Was A Good Year On The Bug Front

There were few insect problems in cereal crops in 2010. Armyworms were a concern in some fields. Shipments of larvae of cereal leaf beetle containing the parasitoid Tetrastichus julis (Eulophidae) were released in some fields near Swan River. In canola, cutworms were a problem in some fields. Root maggots and damage to plants was noticed
Cereals, Crops

Protecting Canada’s Grain Quality Reputation

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The Canadian Grain Co m m i s s i o n , t h e Canadian Wheat Board and the Western Grain Elevators Association have jointly issued a release reminding farmers that producer declarations protect the returns farmers earn from the international marketplace. The declaration system relies on producers to attest that the grain
Cereals, Crops

Weather Curbs High-Protein Wheat Supply

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Unusual harvest rains could turn nearly nine-tenths of Australia’s high-protein milling wheat into poorer-quality feed wheat, further strengthening premiums between the two that are already the highest in at least 15 years. The impact will be felt globally, as Australia was expected to produce a bumper crop to offset a supply squeeze in high-quality wheat

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