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Strahl Rules Out Costing Review Until Service Study Complete

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Transport Minister Chuck Strahl will wait for the final recommendations from the Rail Service Review Panel before deciding on requests for an examination of railway costing. “We want to see if the panel’s recommendations resolve shipper complaints about the quasi-monopolistic status of the railways before the government decides on another review,” Strahl told the Commons
Cereals, Opinion

Commodities Lend Themselves To Single-Desk Selling

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You have to admire politicians who set aside long-held beliefs when they are confronted with the reality of how the world works. Reality sets in once they arrive in government and are responsible to more than just their supporters. Good examples are former Alberta Conservative premier Peter Lougheed and Saskatchewan’s Premier Brad Wall. Both were
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Hearings On GM Regulation Bill C-474 Shut Down

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Preventing genetically modified (GM) crops from contaminating non-GM crops is practically impossible. That’s the message weed scientist Rene Van Acker would have given the House of Commons’ agriculture committee hearing on Bill C-474 in Ottawa Oct. 28, had he been given the opportunity. But hearings on NDP MP Alex Atamanenko’s legislation came to an abrupt
Cereals, Grain Markets

Canada Said To Have Sold Wheat To South Korea

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Canada is believed to have exported feed wheat to South Korea, although confirmation was lacking. It was reported by overseas exporters Oct. 27 that South Korea’s Major Feedmill Group bought a total of 110,000 tonnes of Canadian feed wheat in a tender at $308.25 per tonne, with arrival by Feb. 10, 2010. John Lyons, media
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CWB Ballots In The Mail

Ballot packages have been mailed to 28,481 potential voters in this fall’s Canadian Wheat Board director elections in CWB Districts 1, 3, 5, 7, and 9. “If they have not received them by Nov. 9 voters should call the toll-free election information line at 1.877.780.VOTE,” said election co-ordinator Ian Craven. Producers who may be eligible
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Producer Car History

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Farmers gained the right to load their own grain in May 1902 through an amendment to the Manitoba Grain Act, after it became apparent elevator companies and the railways conspired to prevent farmers loading cars themselves. The amendment introduced the “Car Order Book” – allocating cars on a first-come, first-served basis. The Canadian Pacific Railway
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Bill To Protect Producer Car Sites

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Saskatchewan MP Ralph Goodale has introduced a private member’s bill that would require railways to give three years’ notice instead of 60 days to scrap a producer car siding. Bill C-586 would amend the Canada Transportation Act so that the process to discontinue a producer car siding is similar to abandoning rail lines. It received
Cereals, Crops

And The Winner Is…

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Seed of the Year is proud to announce AC Metcalfe, a two-row malting barley variety, as the winner of Seed of the Year -West. AC Metcalfe, developed by Bill Legge at AAFC Brandon, received full registration in 1997, and was an advance in agronomic, disease resistance and quality traits in a two-row malting barley variety.
Cereals, Crops

Kane No. 1 In Manitoba

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Kane is still the king of wheats in Manitoba af ter dethroning longt ime monarch AC Barrie last year, but Glenn and Harvest aren’t far behind. Kane, a relatively new variety, accounted for 25.4 per cent of the Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS) wheat acres seeded in Manitoba this spring, according to the Canadian Wheat
Cereals, Crops

Higher Corn Prices Lead To Fertilizer Price Spike

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U. S. fertilizer prices have doubled over the past year, with a quarter of the gains coming in the last three months, signalling that farmers will expand corn planting next spring to capitalize on high prices. Trade sources said increased fertilizer orders by farmers, coupled with corn prices hovering around two-year highs near $6 per

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