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Arborg Trying To Save Its Elevator

By Allan Dawson April 2, 2009

“Anybody I’ve talked to is very upset (about the prospect of losing the elevator). In fact, the words are as harsh as ‘it’s criminal.’” – BILL URUSKI Scott Sigvaldason isn’t prepared to let Arborg’s grain elevator be destroyed without a fight. The Arborg-area grain farmer and president of Wedge Farms Nutrition, an oat-processing firm, says

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Record-Breaking Year For Canadian Canola In 2008

By Allan Dawson April 2, 2009

“The trick is going to be to produce it year after year so that it will average 15 million tonnes.” – JOANNE BUTH 2 008 was a dream year for Canada’s Cinderella crop with records falling all over the place. Farmers harvested a record canola crop, with near-record oil content, after planting a record number

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Can Old-Crop Canola Be Facing $7.50 A Bushel?

By Don Bousquet April 2, 2009

Grain and oilseed futures at ICE Futures Canada in Winnipeg c losed the week ended March 27 lower, with losses in the Chicago market and the firm Canadian dollar weighing on values. Canola posted small losses as sluggish export demand also weighed on prices. China has indicated its canola buying in April will fall to

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Viterra Joins Winter Wheat Campaign

April 2, 2009

A program aiming for 100,000 new acres of winter cereals seeded across Western Canada this fall now has Viterra on board as its “premier delivery partner.” Ducks Unlimited and Bayer CropScience in mid-January launched “Winter Cereals: Sustainability in Action,” a program to increase winter cereals acres across North America, to which Bayer pledged $20 million

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Forages Could Reduce Canola Yield

By Alexis Kienlen April 2, 2009

“Information about placing canola on forages is very limited, so caution is a definite must here.” Producers who have made the decision to put canola into fields previously in forages do so with a degree of risk, says Anastasia Kubinec, oilseed business specialist with Manitoba Agriculture. “Information about placing canola on forages is very limited,

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Canola Acres Affected By Price And Rotation

By Phil Franz-Warkentin April 2, 2009

Industry analysts say rotation issues and prices may crimp federal forecasts for record canola acreage this year. In its latest supply/demand estimates Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s market analysis division forecast seeded Canadian canola area in 2009 at a record 17.235 million acres. That would compare with the previous record set in 2008 of 16.159 million.

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Triticale Best Choice For Bioeconomy

By Sarah Sutton April 2, 2009

“Triticale is the best choice for carbohydrate production. It yields 20 per cent more than other cereals.” Triticale has a bright future due to $15.5 million in new funding from the federal government, says one of two science directors in the new Canadian Triticale Biorefinery Initiative. “Triticale is a high-yielding crop that produces a large

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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

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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

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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,

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Russian grain ship believed sunk in Ukrainian drone attack found, towed to shore, TASS says

Striking JBS workers to return to Colorado plant on promise of talks

Canadian finance minister talks supply chain integrity, pork tariffs with Chinese vice premier

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