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Rail Revenue Cap Going Up Seven Per Cent

By Allan Dawson May 6, 2010

“Farmers are already overpaying the railways so this extra seven per cent just adds insult to injury.” – JOHN LYONS Western farmers are likely to pay more to ship their grain by rail in the new crop year starting Aug. 1 due to higher railway operating costs. Many farmers believe they already pay too much.

Country Crossroads

Apply For FCC AgriSpirit Fund

By Farm Credit Canada Release May 6, 2010

The application period for the Farm Credit Canada (FCC) AgriSpirit Fund opened May 3. Registered charities and non-profit organizations interested in applying for funding this year are encouraged to apply online at www.agrispirit.ca,from May 3 until June 14. The fund will provide $1 million to support rural capital projects across Canada. The FCC AgriSpirit Fund

News

Auditor General Criticizes AAFC Research Management

By Ron Friesen April 29, 2010

“There’s a component of science that has to remain to protect the public trust.” – GARY CORBETT, PIPS Canada’s federal agriculture scientists are getting old, their equipment is outdated and their research increasingly aimed at making money for big business rather than benefiting the public good. That’s how Gary Corbett interprets Auditor General Sheila Fraser’s

Cereals, Grain Markets, Oilseeds

USDA Loan Rates Favour U. S. Durum

By Phil Franz-Warkentin April 29, 2010

For three-times-daily market reports from Resource News International, visit “ICE Futures Canada updates” at www.manitobacooperator.ca ICE Futures Canada canola contracts held within the tight ranges they’ve been stuck in for the past month during the week ended April 23, although the bias was to the downside as producers began seeding what could be a record-size

Cereals, Livestock, Opinion

Letters – for Apr. 15, 2010

April 15, 2010

Disastrous economic development The warning previews are being posted, as John Oliver speaks out on global energy, with food and water shortages on the horizon. (March 25 Manitoba Co-operator story by Daniel Winters.) We read that more than one billion people go hungry every single day and have little or no clean water to drink,

Cereals, Crops

China Thirsty For Malting Barley

By Rod Nickel April 15, 2010

China’s thirst for beer has driven up its barley imports from Canada by 86 per cent, but weaker U. S. demand more than offsets those gains. From August through January, China has replaced the United States as Canada’s top barley export market by importing nearly 208,000 tonnes, according to Statistics Canada. The surge reflects China’s

Opinion

Feeling Full, Satisfying Hunger

By Ronald Doering April 8, 2010

The food, beverage and supplement weight management product market in the U. S. last year was $3.64 billion and growing fast. For the industry, beyond the traditional claims such as low fat (food minus), a burgeoning new field involves a shift to satiety claims (food plus). Foods marketed for satiety have enhanced levels of fibre

Cereals, Crops

Grain Values Drop In PROs

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff April 1, 2010

Burdensome” supplies have pressured wheat, durum and barley values in the Canadian Wheat Board’s latest pool return outlooks (PROs) for both the 2010-11 and 2009-10 crop years. The CWB on March 25 marked down its March 2010-11 PROs for milling wheat values by $14-$16 per tonne from February values, with No. 1 Canada Western Red

Opinion

Optical Illusions

By Laura Rance-Unger March 25, 2010

It’s pretty easy to get people all fired up these days. Just announce you’re going to rewrite the national anthem. Or axe the wheat board. Or publicly sanction a Crown corporation in the business of lending money to farmers for sending its employees on all-expense-paid trips to Disney World. Farm Credit Canada was in the

Cereals, Opinion

More Immediate Concerns Deserve Farmers’ Attention

By Les Mcewan March 25, 2010

As tempting as another battle over the CWB may be to farm leaders, we need to focus our attention on the immediate matter at hand: the inability of our farm programs to stabilize farm income. The last federal throne speech made it perfectly clear. The sabres are rattling and the attack on the Canadian Wheat

Daily Network News

New U.S. tariffs start at 10 per cent, Trump administration working to hike them to 15 per cent

Klassen: Feeder market remains firm

Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea found on a southern Alberta farm

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