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CWB Election Spending Report “Incomplete”

By Allan Dawson April 23, 2009

“It’s one of the few well-defined pieces of the regulation: what information (candidates and third parties) have to provide.” – IAN CRAVEN, MNP Two candidates in last fall’s Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) director elections and a pair of third-party interveners have declined to disclose their donors and advertising expenses, highlighting the need to clarify election

Cereals, News

Money No Guarantee Of Win In CWB Election

By Allan Dawson April 23, 2009

Candidates who spent the most money or received the most donations during last fall’s Canadian Wheat Board election didn’t always win, according to the election co-ordinator’s report on election donations and spending. For example, District 8 incumbent Rod Flaman received $1,698 in donations towards his reelection campaign to the CWB’s board of directors and spent

Cereals, News

SUMMARY OF CANADIAN WHEAT BOARD ELECTION CO-ORDINATOR’S ELECTION SPENDING REPORT

By Allan Dawson April 23, 2009

CANDIDATES THIRD PARTIES Candidates who spent the most money or received the most donations during last fall’s Canadian Wheat Board election didn’t always win, according to the election co-ordinator’s report on election donations and spending. For example, District 8 incumbent Rod Flaman received $1,698 in donations towards his reelection campaign to the CWB’s board of

Cereals, News

Rain Encourages Early Wheat Plantings In Australia

April 23, 2009

Rain across eastern Australia has provided some early planting opportunities for winter crops such as wheat, analysts and grain traders said April 15. Falls of between 25 and 50 millimetres were common across an area stretching from the eastern Riverina district in the south to central Queensland state in the north. Rain also fell across

Cereals, News

Seeding Delay Concerns Emerge In Western Canada

By Dwayne Klassen April 23, 2009

Cool temperatures combined with wetter-than-normal weather have caused some concern about seeding delays in Western Canada, but industry participants aren’t pushing the panic button yet. “Right now seeding operations in Western Canada are looking as though they are one week behind,” Mike Jubinville, an analyst with the farmer advisory service ProFarmer Canada said. He indicated

Cereals, Crops, News

Wet Fields Worry U. S. Farmers

April 23, 2009

Persistently soggy wheat fields in the U. S. Northern Plains are keeping farmers waiting – and worrying – about when, or if, they would be able to start planting the 2009 Hard Red Spring wheat crop. Historic flooding triggered by early-spring melting of snow and ice have literally swamped farmers throughout North Dakota, the chief

Cereals, News

In Brief… – for Apr. 23, 2009

April 23, 2009

Group seeks provincial grass: A grassroots committee is running an online poll of Manitobans to find a nominee for Manitoba’s provincial grass emblem. “Let’s celebrate Manitoba’s native prairie grasslands by declaring a provincial grass emblem for Manitoba,” the Manitoba Provincial Grass Campaign Committee says on its website at www.manitobagrass.ca. As of April 18, big bluestem

Cereals, News, Pulses

Ritz Excludes CWB From Moroccan Trade Mission

By Allan Dawson April 23, 2009

“I’m not sure why they would wait for me to lead a trade mission. I think they should be here on a month-by-month basis. This is an important market.” – gerry ritz When Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz went to Morocco to promote more trade, he failed to take along the agency responsible for most of

Cereals, Opinion

Good Riddance To C-13

By Paul Beingessner April 16, 2009

Farmers should be grateful that Bill C-13, a bill to amend the Canada Grain Act, failed to make it through Parliament. The bill was removed from consideration for second reading by a motion supported by all three opposition parties. The motion called for the bill to be brought back to Parliament in six months, but

Cereals, Grain Markets, Oilseeds

Weather Becoming Market Focus

By Don Bousquet April 16, 2009

For three-times-daily market reports from Don Bousquet and RNI, visit “ICE Futures Canada updates” at www.manitobacooperator.ca Grain and oilseed futures at ICE Futures Canada in Winnipeg closed the week ended April 9 mainly lower. Canola saw small losses, undermined by slowing demand and the large available canola supplies still on-farm in Western Canada. Canola declined

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Cereals

CWB Election Spending Report “Incomplete”

Money No Guarantee Of Win In CWB Election

SUMMARY OF CANADIAN WHEAT BOARD ELECTION CO-ORDINATOR’S ELECTION SPENDING REPORT

Rain Encourages Early Wheat Plantings In Australia

Seeding Delay Concerns Emerge In Western Canada

Wet Fields Worry U. S. Farmers

In Brief… – for Apr. 23, 2009

Ritz Excludes CWB From Moroccan Trade Mission

Good Riddance To C-13

Weather Becoming Market Focus

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