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Frost Threatens Late-Developing Prairie Grain Crop

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The threat of an early and devastat ing frost hangs over the western Canadian grain industry as anxious farmers hope for warm weather in August to ripen seriously delayed crops. Nearly all of the Prairie grain region has experienced much below-normal temperatures so far this growing season, putting crops two to three weeks behind their
Cereals, News

Canada Wheat Board Told To Pay In Damaged Wheat Row

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A judge has ordered the Canadian Wheat Board to pay two of its overseas grain customers $1.8 million to resolve a 26-year-old dispute over frost-damaged spring wheat. A Canadian judge ruled July 17 that the CWB is liable for negligently misrepresenting the quality of the wheat. The CWB had told its customers and exporters in
Cereals, Crops

Wheat Values Slip In 2009-10 PROs

Upwardly revised estimates of U. S. wheat acres, record-high exports from producers overseas and a strong loonie have combined to cut down the Canadian Wheat Board’s 2009-10 pool return outlooks (PROs) for wheat by $12 to $17 per tonne. Among the July PROs released July 23, lower international durum values pressured the new-crop durum outlook
Cereals, Crops

CWB Wants To Appeal “Gag Order”

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“We think it’s a fundamental issue to the CWB. It’s about farmers having control of the Canadian Wheat Board. It’s as simple as that.” – Larry Hill The struggle over who controls the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) – its board of directors or the federal government – might be decided by the Supreme Court of
Cereals, News

Appeal Court Restores “Gag Order” On CWB

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The Federal Court of Appeal has res tored the federal government’s “gag order” against the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB). It means the CWB isn’t allowed to spend money advocating to keep its single-desk marketing powers. However, the rul ing says individual CWB directors and even staff can speak publicly in support of single-desk selling as
Cereals, Crops

CWB’s Initials Raised, Pool A Closed

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Wheat and durum growers can expect some cash next week as the Canadian Wheat Board’s 2008-09 initial payments are raised across several classes and grades. The CWB on June 23 announced its adjustment payments, as well as the final payments for Pool A feed barley. The increased 2008-09 initials for wheat will translate to adjustment
Cereals, Crops, News, Oilseeds

Crops Hit By June 6 Frost

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“In one field the odd plant was dead and the next quarter over the field was completely dead.” – anastasia KuBinec Frost early June 6 caused another spring flood in Manitoba – of crop insurance claims. Temperatures dipped below zero in many regions during the wee hours of June 6. But the lowest temperatures were
Opinion

A Rural Champion

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A few years back, as the list of rural responsibilities assigned to one cabinet minister in a particular federal government grew longer than could be comfortably stated without pausing to breathe, reporters took to unofficially referring to him as the “minister for everything in between the big cities.” In some ways, it was symbolic of
Hogs, News

Ag Spending Debate A Chippy One

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Other than in the disjoined repartee of question period, Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz, like his predecessors, is rarely called to account in the Commons for the spending programs and priorities of his department. That usually happens at the agriculture committee, which receives little attention from the mainstream news media on Parliament Hill. But on May
Cereals, Crops

Two White Wheats Deregistered

The Canadian Grain Commission will deregister two Canada Prairie Spring White Wheat varieties effective April 28, 2011. Until that date, deliveries of the varieties Snowhite 475 and Snowhite 476 are eligible for the top grade in the CPSW class. But deliveries after that date will be categorized as feed. “Western wheat producers must know their

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