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Cereals, Opinion

Letters – for Nov. 18, 2010

Dogs in a truck offence – offensive Just when a person is thinking that the urban-rural gap cannot get any wider– Dr. Terry Whiting is quoted in a Manitoba Co-operatorarticle concerning Manitoba’s new animal rights and welfare rules. In the specific quote of concern “Sheriff” Whiting informs us that driving a pickup truck with a
Cereals, News, Oilseeds

Regulating Railways Finds Rare Consensus

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The Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) and Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association (WCWGA) can agree on one thing – more regulation is needed to improve railway service for farm commodities. The Grain Growers of Canada, Canadian Canola Growers Association and the Western Grain Elevators Association say the same. All have sent that message to a panel
News

Federal Food Guide Puzzles Food Industry

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A new guide that’s supposed to help companies navigate the food-safety system instead has the industry scratching its collective head about the purpose of the document. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has posted an updated Guide to Food Safety on its web-site. It’s a voluntary tool to provide generic guidance on how to design, develop
Weather

Weekly weather map – for Nov. 18, 2010

Before we start looking at snow cover maps, I thought we should take a look back at the total amount of precipitation received across the Prairies over the last growing season compared to historical amounts. From the map you can see that a huge portion of the agricultural Prairies saw extremely high moisture to record-wet
Cereals, Crops

CWB Must Be A Strong Advocate For Farmers

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For over 30 years, I have produced wheat and canola near Benito, Man. This has made me a strong supporter of the single-desk marketing and farmer control of the Canadian Wheat Board. These are the reasons I am asking for your support in the Canadian Wheat Board directors’ elections. It matters who we elect and
Cereals, Crops, Oilseeds

CWB Needs A Strong Future Vision

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Farmers have fought hard and with passion to have their voices heard around the table of the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB). What farmers need are leaders who not only represent their business interests, but who have a vision for a strong and successful CWB in two to 10 years from now. This leadership needs to
Cereals, News

Court Overturns Shipper Complaint Against CN

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Canadian National Railway (CN) did not breach its level-of-service obligations to the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) and four other grain companies in the 2007- 08 crop year the Federal Appeal Court said in its ruling Sept. 9. Although the ruling overturns the Canadian Transportation Agency’s (CTA) decision in favour of the complaint launched in 2008
Cereals, Crops

Two More Private Members’ Bills Deal With CWB

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Two more private members’ bills dealing with the Canadian Wheat Board received first reading in the House of Commons last week. If it becomes law Bill C-588 will stop members of Parliament from spending taxpayers’ money to influence Canadian Wheat Board elections. Bill C-589, if approved, will give the CWB’s directors more control of the
Cereals, News

Hearings On GM Regulation Bill C-474 Shut Down

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Preventing genetically modified (GM) crops from contaminating non-GM crops is practically impossible. That’s the message weed scientist Rene Van Acker would have given the House of Commons’ agriculture committee hearing on Bill C-474 in Ottawa Oct. 28, had he been given the opportunity. But hearings on NDP MP Alex Atamanenko’s legislation came to an abrupt
Cereals, News

CWB Ballots In The Mail

Ballot packages have been mailed to 28,481 potential voters in this fall’s Canadian Wheat Board director elections in CWB Districts 1, 3, 5, 7, and 9. “If they have not received them by Nov. 9 voters should call the toll-free election information line at 1.877.780.VOTE,” said election co-ordinator Ian Craven. Producers who may be eligible

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