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Cereals, News

Wheat Board Director Tips Off Alberta Grains Council

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Aleaked email shows that Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) director Henry Vos tipped off the Alberta government about a CWB barley study, but it’s not clear whether he has breached confidentiality rules. That can only be determined by the directors if it comes to their attention, said board spokesman and retiring District 9 director Bill Nicholson.
Cereals, News

CWB Announces Feed Wheat Program

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The Canadian Wheat Board has announced a new program to lock in a price for feed wheat. Based on the current Early Payment Option (EPO), the program for feed wheat allows producers to lock in an Early Payment Value (EPV) equal to 80, 90, 100, 125, 150, 175 or 200 per cent of the Pool
Cereals, Crops

Monsanto Monitoring Attitudes On GM Wheat

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The roadblock to rolling out genetically modified wheat isn’t consumer resistance in Europe or Japan, it’s ambivalence among Canadian farmers, according to Monsanto Canada president Derek Penner. “My attitude is there hasn’t been much shift towards GMO wheat (in Canada),” Penner told reporters Nov. 23 at the opening of Monsanto’s new Canada Breeding Centre at
Beef cattle, Livestock

New Book On Managing Prairie Rangeland

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Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada has released an updated publication calledManagement of Canadian Prairie Rangeland.The book was written by Arthur Bailey, professor emeritus at the University of Alberta, Duane McCartney former forage and beef systems specialist at AAFC’s Lacombe Research Centre, and Michael Schellenberg, forage and range plant ecologist at AAFC’s Semiarid Agricultural Research Centre in
Cereals, Crops

Boosts Approved For CWB Initial Payments

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Prairie wheat and barley growers’ initial 2010- 11 payments from the Canadian Wheat Board will see adjustments effective this week by as much as $90 per tonne for the highest-protein spring wheat. The increases, effective Dec. 2, will mean adjustment payments for Prairie farmers who will have delivered wheat, durum and barley to the CWB
Cereals, News

Some Mum On Single Desk Versus Open Market

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Since the first Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) directors’ election in 1998 candidates have declared themselves “for” or “against” retaining single-desk selling. In this year’s contest, five of the candidates running in Districts 1, 3, 5, 7, and 9 are mum on the question: Henry Vos, Brian Otto, Vicki Dutton, Terry Youzwa and Ernie Sirski, leaving
Cereals, Opinion

Democracy Doesn’t Just Happen

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It’s election season for farmers. Not only did rural municipalities recently have elections, but producers have received ballots in the mail for director elections to the Canadian Wheat Board. Democracy is great, but it does have its foibles. Overall election activity was up across the province and that’s a good thing. Too many sit on
Cereals, News

Four Groups Registered As Third-Party Interveners

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The 2010 Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) election has been uncharacteristically quiet this time round. In 2008, there were allegations that federal government improperly engaged in the election when several Conservative MPs used their offices to mail letters urging farmers to elect candidates opposed to single-desk selling. There was also controversy over changes to the voters’
Cereals, Crops

Farmers Making Progress In Fight For Better Rail Service

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Ken Rosaasen has witnessed previous grain transportation battles right back to Hall Commission in the 1970s and believes farmers and grain companies are making some headway this time around. “I think the transportation issue is moving on to the front burner and I think it’s going to stay there,” the University of Saskatchewan agricultural economist
Dairy cattle, Livestock

Panel Of Experts To Keep Eye On CFIA

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The man who helped create the Canadian Food Inspection Agency in the 1990s has been asked to ensure it is doing its job. Ron Doering, who also served as the agency’s president for four years, will head what’s called a “ministerial advisory board.” He will be joined by six other experts who will advise Agriculture

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