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Cereals, Crops

Outgoing Director Cites Single-Desk Advantages

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“They are still in a position where their ability to put legislation through on the wheat board is doubtful, but I don’t have any illusions that if they were in a majority situation they would move pretty swiftly on their commitments.” – BILL NICHOLSON Outgoing Canadian Wheat Board director Bill Nicholson predicts that the Conservatives
Cereals, News

CWB To Hustle Grain Out Of Red River Valley

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With overland flooding again expected in the southern portion of Manitoba’s Red River Valley, the Canadian Wheat Board plans to make room at area elevators for affected farmers to bring in their accepted grain now. The CWB said March 12 it would put a program in place to help farmers who may have grain at
Cereals, Crops

CWB’s 2009-10 Malt Barley Initials Raised

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Prairie barley growers will get a raise on initial payments on malting barley delivered to the Canadian Wheat Board for the 2009-10 crop year. The federal government approved and the CWB announced on March 12 that the 2009-10 initial payments for all grades and classes of designated barley will increase by $26.50 per tonne, effective
Cereals, Opinion

Only actual producers should vote

I would like to respond to the inaccuracies and misconceptions left by Allan Dawson in his article “Who controls the CWB, farmers or Ottawa?” in the March 4 Manitoba Co-operator. The Friends of the Canadian Wheat Board (FCWB) assertion is that everyone who holds a permit book deserves a ballot. Western Canadian producers have told
Cereals, News

Brisk Grain Movement Coming

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The Canadian Wheat Board is on track to meet its export target of 19.3 million tonnes of wheat, durum and barley this year thanks to unusually good rail service, farmers here were told last week. “In my 10 or 11 years at the wheat board this is probably their (railways) best year next to last
Cereals, Opinion

Farmers’ Right To Choose

In his letter in the March 4 issue of the Manitoba Co-operator, Canadian Wheat Board director Bill Toews raises a question about a voluntary Canadian Wheat Board that all farmers should be asking their board of directors; “If such a thing was workable for farmers, why would it not be in place today?” The simple
Cereals, Opinion, Other livestock

Letters – for Mar. 11, 2010

Unaffordable efficiencies Twelve years ago, I was told that having fewer and bigger elevators would be more efficient and better for me. Today, the tariff at these new, efficient, inland grain terminals is at least 50 per cent higher than it was 12 years ago. I was also told 12 years ago, that if the
Cereals, Crops

CWB Returns $7.1 Billion To Farmers

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“As we go forward we recognize it’s something we have to keep our eye on… to manage them (costs) to a reasonable… cost per tonne.” – BRITA CHELL Western Canadian grain farmers earned a near-record $7.1 billion from sales made through the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) in the 2008-09 crop year that ended last July
Cereals, Opinion

“Voluntary CWB” code words for open market

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As the Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association continues to agitate for a voluntary CWB (“Volunteer CWB would be democratic,” Feb. 18), they need to ask themselves one question. If such a thing was workable for farmers, why would it not be in place today? The CWB is a single-desk marketing organization. Without a single desk,
Cereals, Livestock

U. S. Hog Prices Improving, But Not In Canada

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U. S. hog prices are expected to show some improvement over the next year, but that strength won’t be felt in Canada where foreign exchange rates will continue to hamper the industry, said market analyst Steve Dziver, of Phoenix Agri-Tec Inc. in a presentation at the Canadian Wheat Board’s annual Grain World conference in Winnipeg,

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