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Variety Declarations Put To Test

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The Canadian Wheat Board is being sued for more than $50 million by a Saskatchewan farm that has its delivery contract cancelled for delivering an ineligible variety of Red Spring wheat. But industry officials say the lawsuit by Hudye Farms Inc. and two associated companies is really a test of the four-year-old grain variety declaration
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Letters – for Dec. 2, 2010

The November 18 issue was very interesting reading and has prompted me to write to compliment Laura Rance for her excellent editorial on the changes in the Animal Care Act and the increased authority for provincial animal-welfare officers. I also have to say that the two letters to the editor regarding dogs riding in the
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Wheat Board Director Tips Off Alberta Grains Council

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Aleaked email shows that Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) director Henry Vos tipped off the Alberta government about a CWB barley study, but it’s not clear whether he has breached confidentiality rules. That can only be determined by the directors if it comes to their attention, said board spokesman and retiring District 9 director Bill Nicholson.
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CWB Announces Feed Wheat Program

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The Canadian Wheat Board has announced a new program to lock in a price for feed wheat. Based on the current Early Payment Option (EPO), the program for feed wheat allows producers to lock in an Early Payment Value (EPV) equal to 80, 90, 100, 125, 150, 175 or 200 per cent of the Pool
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U.S. Plains Rain Provides Little Relief To Dry Wheat

Light rains that fell over the driest areas of the U.S. western Plains last weekend provided little relief to the young wheat crop which will soon turn dormant, a forecaster said Monday. “You are still looking at a situation that continues to deteriorate in those western areas – western Kansas, eastern Colorado and southwestern Nebraska,”
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Monsanto Monitoring Attitudes On GM Wheat

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The roadblock to rolling out genetically modified wheat isn’t consumer resistance in Europe or Japan, it’s ambivalence among Canadian farmers, according to Monsanto Canada president Derek Penner. “My attitude is there hasn’t been much shift towards GMO wheat (in Canada),” Penner told reporters Nov. 23 at the opening of Monsanto’s new Canada Breeding Centre at
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Sudan Targets Food Self-Sufficiency In Five Years

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Sudan will prioritize agriculture to target self-sufficiency within five years after the devastation of decades of civil wars, its agriculture minister said Nov. 22. Africa’s largest country must diversify its economy away from oil – from which it derives more than 90 per cent of its foreign exchange revenues – as the oil-producing south is
Cereals, Crops

Boosts Approved For CWB Initial Payments

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Prairie wheat and barley growers’ initial 2010- 11 payments from the Canadian Wheat Board will see adjustments effective this week by as much as $90 per tonne for the highest-protein spring wheat. The increases, effective Dec. 2, will mean adjustment payments for Prairie farmers who will have delivered wheat, durum and barley to the CWB
Cereals, Crops

Broad Shipper Coalition Pushing Hard For Rail Regulation

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0ttawa Watching railway customer Rob Davies and railway spokesman Cliff Mackay debate railway regulation was like watching Abbott and Costello, except this was improv. “I just don’t think regulations create win-win solutions,” Mackay, president of the Railway Association of Canada, said during a panel discussion here Nov. 16 during a grain industry symposium organized by

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