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CWB Lowers Wheat And Durum Price Outlooks

By Resource News January 7, 2010

The Canadian Wheat Board has lowered its price projections for most classes of wheat and durum sold during the 2009-10 crop year. The Pool Return Outlooks, released Dec. 17, were left unchanged for feed barley, while malt barley prices were revised higher. Wheat values were steady to down $6 per tonne from November, with most

Cereals, Opinion

CashPlus Controversy Has Little Traction

By Kevin Hursh December 24, 2009

Alittle over two years ago, the Canadian Wheat Board came up with a program called CashPlus for malting barley sales. Depending on who you listen to, it’s either been an absolute failure or a tremendous success. CashPlus was initiated at a time when the Conservative government was doing everything in its power to end the

Cereals, News, Oilseeds

CashPlus Additional Payments Attacked And Defended

By Allan Dawson December 17, 2009

Farmers who used the Canadian Wheat Board’s (CWB) CashPlus program to sell malting barley last crop year were shortchanged, according to the Malting Industry Association of Canada (MIAC). However, the board says the allegation doesn’t take all the facts into account and is based on a faulty assumption – that CashPlus barley was sold for

Crops

FCC Honours Farm Women

By Farm Credit Canada Release December 10, 2009

Farm Credit Canada (FCC) is seeking nominations for the 2010 FCC Rosemary Davis Award, which honours Canadian women for their leadership and commitment to agriculture. FCC is looking for five women who deserve recognition for their achievements in the agriculture industry. They can be agriculture producers, agribusiness operators, agrologists, teachers, veterinarians, researchers, community builders, journalists,

Cereals, News

Briefs continued – for Dec. 3, 2009

December 3, 2009

Expanded role: Garth Hodges, with Bayer CropScience’s BioScience business based in Calgary, has been appointed global manager, wheat and oilseeds. Hodges’ new role within the global portfolio development signals a new focus for the company in the development of innovative solutions from seed to harvest for broad acre crops including wheat. Overall, it heralds a

Cereals, News

Wells Condemns Corporate Seed Power

By Allan Dawson December 3, 2009

Afew very large seed corporations led by Monsanto have too much power over farmers, according to retiring National Farmers Union (NFU) president Stewart Wells. “With the rapid changes the seed companies are making to the system – seed registration, patent protection, seed contracts and inter-company seed agreements – Monsanto and the seed trade will quickly

Cereals, Opinion

WTO Draft Threatens Rights Of Prairie Farmers

By Larry Hill November 26, 2009

In every one of the CWB’s major markets, the WTO’s proposed new “bound” tariffs are in fact higher than the tariffs actually being applied. Talks have dragged on so long it’s tempting to think there won’t ever be a new World Trade Organization deal. But bit by bit, the elements of a final agreement are

Cereals, News, Oilseeds

Ballots In The Mail For MCGA Election

By Allan Dawson November 19, 2009

“The best thing I could hope for is that as soon as a person gets a ballot they mark it and send it back.” – BILL ROSS Six farmers – four incumbents and two others – are running to fill four directors’ seats around the Manitoba Canola Growers Association’s (MCGA) board table. The incumbents seeking

News

Maple Leaf Hit With More Bad News

By Alex Binkley November 19, 2009

Maple Leaf Foods says sanitary conditions at its Toronto plant that was the source of the deadly listeria outbreak in 2008 have improved greatly. There have been no recalls of products or orders to withhold deli meats from the market, says Maple Leaf spokeswoman Linda Smith. A Canadian Press story, citing documents obtained under Access

News, Oilseeds

What Is The Manitoba Agri-Health Research Network?

October 29, 2009

The Food Development Centre at Portage la Prairie is a special operating agency of the Manitoba government and is involved in the development of grains and oil-seeds, fruits, vegetables, meat and bakery products for the supermarket shelf, as well as agricultural products for health. The FDC operates under a licence from the Canadian Food Inspection

Daily Network News

Mosaic misses profit estimates on weak U.S. phosphate demand

Consultations open on expanded regulations for drone pesticide application

Pulse weekly: USDA to buy US$75 million in pulses as part of support package

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