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The money, similar to what the former directors estimated, will cover open-market transition costs
The federal government will spend up to $349 million to cover the Canadian Wheat Board’s (CWB) extraordinary costs as it moves to an open market Aug. 1. “The CWB must be as nimble, flexible and efficient as possible without being encumbered with costs related to the past,” Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz said at a newsWatch for rising wedges in bear markets and falling wedges in bull markets, where they are most apt to occur
Red spring wheat grading No. 1 13.5 per cent protein reached $8 per bushel for the 2012-13 crop year. This is the highest price farmers have been able to lock in, since the open-market era was announced in mid-December 2011. True to form, wheat prices began their seasonal turn higher, just as the U.S. winter
