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In Brief… – for Dec. 9, 2010

Winter wheat breeder heads south:Francois Marais, a visiting scientist at Winnipeg’s federal Cereal Research Centre, has picked up a new post at North Dakota State University’s plant sciences department as a winter wheat breeder and geneticist. Marais, who has a doctorate in cereal technology from NDSU and degrees in genetics from South Africa’s Universiteit Stellenbosch,
Cereals, Opinion

Letters – for Dec. 9, 2010

Huyde says suit justified The Hudye claim (Variety declarations put to the test,Dec. 2) should make a difference to every farmer who sells to the Canadian Wheat Board because it asserts, among other things, that the CWB owes farmers a fiduciary duty. Simply put, it’s a claim that the CWB must at all times act
Cereals, Grain Markets, Oilseeds

It’s Your Business

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Canola futures on the ICE Canada trading platform posted some modest advances during the week ended Dec. 3, with some of the upward momentum coming from the general strength displayed by the outside oilseed markets. CBOT soybean and soyoil values both posted some significant advances on the week with new contract highs also established in
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
Cereals, News, Oilseeds

StatsCan Boosts Canola And Wheat Estimates

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Canada’s canola output got a bigger-than-expected late-season boost from good weather while wheat crops recovered modestly, Statistics Canada’s final report on the 2010 crop showed last Friday. Too much rain across most of the Prairies, cool weather and untimely frost reduced quality and production potential, but many crops finished well in warm, dry October weather.
Cereals, Crops, News

Rains Plague Australian Harvest

Australia’s eastern states face at least another week of wet weather after rains stalled the country’s wheat harvest and raised concerns about the crop’s quality, the country’s weather bureau said Dec. 6. The Australian Bureau of Meteorology was forecasting more rainfall across eastern state grain regions through the week as farmers struggle to get harvesting
Cereals, Crops, News

Drought Spreads Through China

Drought has affected winter wheat crops in 17 per cent of China’s wheat-growing areas in the country’s northern bread basket, and dry weather is forecast to extend until spring next year, the government said. But analysts said it was too early to predict how the overall wheat harvest in May would be affected, since irrigation
Cereals, Crops, News

Risk Of Unseeded Acres Looms Again For 2011

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Western Canada could see a lot of unseeded cropland again next year because of an excessively wet summer and a possible snowy winter. Up to five million acres in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta could go unseeded in 2011 because of wet conditions, said Bruce Burnett, Canadian Wheat Board director of weather and market analysis. It’s
Cereals, News, Oilseeds

In Brief… – for Dec. 2, 2010

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Volatile markets: Wheat values generally dropped $1 to $4 per tonne in the November CWB Pool Return Outlook (PRO). The exception is No. 1 CWRS 14.5, No. 1 CWSWS and feed wheat, which have all increased slightly from October. Durum is up between $1 and $6 per tonne. Malting barley is down $7. The board

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