Demand For U. S. Grains Picking Up

For three-times-daily market reports from Don Bousquet and RNI, visit “ICE Futures Canada updates” at www.manitobacooperator.ca Grain and oilseed future s at ICE Futures Canada in Winnipeg closed the week ended Feb. 12 mixed with weakness in the U. S. futures markets weighing on prices, although it was partially offset by the declining Canadian dollar.

CTA Ruling Helps Maintain Rail Competition Near Winnipeg

Paterson Grain has won its fight to continue being served directly by the American-based BNSF Railway Company (BN) at its Lilyfield elevator near Winnipeg. Feb. 9 the Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA) ruled against Canadian National Railway Company’s (CN) efforts to block BN’s access via a rail car interchange with CN. “This upholds the rights we


MP Wrong About CWB Contingency Fund

News that Prairie farmers earned a record $7.2 billion through the Canadian Wheat Board last year was buried last week beneath allegations that the board had mismanaged the Producer Payments Options program (PPO). Conservative MP David Anderson charged the board lost $130 million of farmers’ money, an allegation CWB chair Larry Hill says is untrue

Will A World Wheat Contract Replace CBOT Futures?

“The market is going to take care of itself, the banking system will be back in order, the risk management of the grain companies will be back in order, and everybody is not going to be terrified.” – GLENN HOLLANDER Is the grain industry ready for a world wheat futures contract? A year-long campaign to


China No Need For Big Foreign Wheat Buys

The drought gripping China’s farming heartland will not force the country to make big international purchases to ease any shortfall, the former head of the State Grain Reserve Bureau told a local newspaper. Gao Tiesheng, former head of the bureau and also former general manager of Sino Grain, told the China Securities Journal that the

U. S., Argentina set for corn export battle

“Our export estimations will probably have to be adjusted down, considering the effect that the drought is likely to have on production.” – Patricia Bergero, Rosario Grain Exchange The recent surge in U. S. corn sales could end soon as Argentina, the world’s second-largest exporter behind the United States, emerges with a new crop and


Brazil looking northward for wheat

Brazilian flour mills may turn to the United States, Canada or even Russia to import wheat, industry sources said Jan. 26, after Argentina blocked exports to ensure domestic supplies following a poor harvest. Brazil is the top buyer of wheat grown by its southern neighbour. But a source at Argentina’s government farm export office, ONCCA,

Don’t get caught in grain

If you are working with grain, you need to know how to keep from getting trapped in it. A lot of wetter-than-normal corn went into storage this year, and wet corn is more prone to crusting or creating a wall of grain near the grain bin wall, warns Ken Hellevang, North Dakota State University Extension


Canola Use At Record Pace, Supply Declining

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 Feb. 6 higher, with gains in the U. S. futures markets supporting prices. Canola rallied, as China picked up at least five cargoes and was

CWB canola-marketing idea “This is

notgoing to come overnight and the ball is now in our court.” – butch harder – Butch Harder Efforsts to give western farmers the option to voluntarily market canola through the Canadian Wheat Board ( CWB) have beenresurrected. “ Keep your earstuned and keep listening,” outgoing Manitoba Canola Growers Association president Ernie Sirski told farmers