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Farmers Urged To Keep Grain Coming

By Allan Dawson March 26, 2009

For once the stars have aligned in favour of farmers. Wheat exports from Canada are moving at a blistering pace while prices remain relatively strong. Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) grain movement since October has been well above the five-and 10-year average and could be the biggest since 1999-2000. The only potential fly in the ointment

Cereals, Crops, Opinion

Time For A Wheat Reserve

By John Morriss March 26, 2009

And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt. And in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by handfuls. And he gathered up all the food of the seven years, which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities:

Cereals, News

Eliminate Unprofitable Farmers, Report Recommends

By Ron Friesen March 26, 2009

A new report proposes a radical and drastic solution to Canada’s chronic farm income problems: get rid of unprofitable farmers. The report by the Canada West Foundation recommends “an orderly retreat from the industry” by farmers who depend on government subsidies and off-farm jobs to stay in operation. The Calgary-based public policy think-tank says agriculture

Cereals, News, Oilseeds

Consumers Still Fret About Grain Prices

By Christine Stebbins March 26, 2009

Uncertainty over U. S. spring plantings of corn and soybeans and recent weakness in the dollar have brought a resurgence in grain prices that spells fresh headaches for consumers and food makers this year. The commodities, at the base of a food chain that feeds into hundreds of supermarket products, from oils to starches to

Cereals, Grain Markets, Oilseeds

U. S. Creates Over $1 Trillion, Sends Markets Higher

By Don Bousquet March 26, 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 c losed the week ended March 20 higher, with strength in the Chicago markets giving good support to prices. Canola was boosted by a disciplined slow approach to farmer

Cereals, News

New Group To Speak For Organic In Manitoba

By Lorraine Stevenson March 26, 2009

Manitoba is forging forward with an umbrella organization to represent its expanding organic sector. Over 60 people met at Headingley this month to launch the Manitoba Organic Alliance (MOA) electing a 13-member board of directors. This is about creating a representative voice for the entire organic sector in Manitoba, said MOA’s interim secretary Donna Youngdahl,

Cereals, Crops

New Broadleaf Weed Control Option In Durum

By Dupont Release March 26, 2009

Durum wheat growers now have access to the same great weed control that spring wheat and barley growers have come to expect from DuPont Triton K herbicide. Now registered for use on durum wheat, Triton K controls some of the toughest broadleaf weeds including Group 2-resistant kochia, narrow-leaved hawk’s beard, cow cockle, wild buckwheat, flixweed

Cereals, Crops

Scientists Join In Battle To Head Off Ug99

By Mica Rosenberg March 26, 2009

Amutant form of stem rust that wipes out wheat crops could spread to top producers in Asia unless new resistant varieties of wheat are distributed widely, experts say. Stem rust “annihilates, that’s not an exaggeration,” said Rick Ward, a rust expert from Cornell University. “Basically the entire world’s wheat crop is fertile breeding ground,” Ward

Cereals, Crops, News

Australian Rail Network Needs Investment

By Bruce Hextall March 26, 2009

Australia risks losng wheat sales to competitors if it cannot upgrade port and rail infrastructure fast enough and remove bottlenecks that have hurt exports following the country’s best harvest in four years. Silos in the world’s fourth-largest wheat exporter are brimming with grain after the breaking of a once-in-a-lifetime drought, but inefficient ports and snail-pace

Cereals, News

Who Enforces CWB Election Rules?

By Allan Dawson March 19, 2009

The Canadian Wheat Board’s (CWB) election co-ordinator says it’s not up to him to determine if the five Conservative MPs who urged voters to vote for open-market candidates in the CWB elections last year should have registered as third-party interveners. “There’s really no ability for the election co-ordinator to do any investigative function,” Ian Craven

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle, hog futures rise on first WASDE since September

U.S. export sales include only small soybean business to China

U.S. corn and soybean yields revised down by USDA

Cereals

Farmers Urged To Keep Grain Coming

Time For A Wheat Reserve

Eliminate Unprofitable Farmers, Report Recommends

Consumers Still Fret About Grain Prices

U. S. Creates Over $1 Trillion, Sends Markets Higher

New Group To Speak For Organic In Manitoba

New Broadleaf Weed Control Option In Durum

Scientists Join In Battle To Head Off Ug99

Australian Rail Network Needs Investment

Who Enforces CWB Election Rules?

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