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CWB Needs A Strong Future Vision

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Farmers have fought hard and with passion to have their voices heard around the table of the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB). What farmers need are leaders who not only represent their business interests, but who have a vision for a strong and successful CWB in two to 10 years from now. This leadership needs to
Cereals, Livestock

Saudi Arabia To Privatize Its Flour Mills

Saudi Arabia’s state-run Grain Silos and Flour Mills Organization (GSFMO) said Nov. 9 it would privatize its flour-grinding mills by creating four companies, but will continue to import wheat and sell it to the mills. The top oil exporter has 11 flour mills it hopes to sell to private investor groups but it did not
Cereals, News

Delmar Commodities Sold To Local Buyers

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What’s next for a man who has moved grain elevators up mountains and built a successful grain-marketing and -processing empire from big industry’s castoffs? Martin Harder is thinking he might write a book about his journey from broke farmer to grain broker to successful grain company president. “I think I have a story to tell,”
Cereals, News

In Brief… – for Nov. 18, 2010

Faster loading:Paterson GlobalFoods has announced construction of a new terminal in Gleichen, which it says will be the fastest-loading facility in Western Canada. The 28,000-tonne “Long Plain Terminal” will include the first grain loop track in Canada. It is designed to allow locomotives to remain connected to a train, providing for continuous and timely loading
Cereals, Opinion

Letters – for Nov. 18, 2010

Dogs in a truck offence – offensive Just when a person is thinking that the urban-rural gap cannot get any wider– Dr. Terry Whiting is quoted in a Manitoba Co-operatorarticle concerning Manitoba’s new animal rights and welfare rules. In the specific quote of concern “Sheriff” Whiting informs us that driving a pickup truck with a
Cereals, News, Oilseeds

Regulating Railways Finds Rare Consensus

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The Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) and Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association (WCWGA) can agree on one thing – more regulation is needed to improve railway service for farm commodities. The Grain Growers of Canada, Canadian Canola Growers Association and the Western Grain Elevators Association say the same. All have sent that message to a panel
Cereals, Crops

CWB Is About Much More Than Selling Grain

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Iwould like to take this opportunity to introduce myself. My name is Garry Draper and my farm is located at Lenore, Man. My wife, Holly, and I have been married for 30 years and have two sons, Shaune and Michael. Both of our sons have bought farms, and together we farm 2,100 acres of wheat,
Cereals, News

Court Overturns Shipper Complaint Against CN

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Canadian National Railway (CN) did not breach its level-of-service obligations to the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) and four other grain companies in the 2007- 08 crop year the Federal Appeal Court said in its ruling Sept. 9. Although the ruling overturns the Canadian Transportation Agency’s (CTA) decision in favour of the complaint launched in 2008
Cereals, Oilseeds, Opinion, Pulses

Grain-Grading Pain

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It’s a difficult year to be a grain buyer. Due to bleaching, sprouting, disease and frost, grades are all over the map and a lot of the grading factors are open to human interpretation. The grading standards sound objective. For instance, No. 1 canola may contain up to two per cent distinctly green seeds and
Cereals, Crops, News

Farm Income Has Some Bright Spots, Says TD Economics

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Net farm incomes will fall across the country this year but the picture for 2011 appears promising, according to a report from TD Economics. While 2010 wasn’t the roller-coaster ride of 2008, “the unanticipated events of recent months have continued to put the planning and risk management capabilities of Canadian farmers to the test,” said

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