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Cereals, Crops

Canada Offers Wheat, Japan Buys As Planned

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Japan bought food wheat from Canada at a regular tender on Feb. 3 and a Canadian Wheat Board memo shows it managed to find scarce high-protein supplies despite a global shortage of top-quality wheat. The wheat board sold Japan’s Ministry of Agriculture 37,110 tonnes of top-grade spring wheat for shipping March 12 to April 11,
Cereals, Crops

Organic Wheat Tough To Move, Says CWB Marketer

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Canadian organic wheat farmers have effectively been shut out of the European market due to lower-priced competition from Kazakhstan. After the meteoric rise of organic wheat to $30 per bushel in the spring of 2008 that ended in the global economic recession that began later that fall, food manufacturers started looking elsewhere for raw materials.
Cereals, Livestock

Free Trade Talks With Morocco Wins Praise From Ag Sector

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Canadian farm groups and the Canadian Wheat Board were quick with praise last week for a federal initiative to launch free trade negotiations with Morocco, saying a deal is needed to keep Canadian durum and pulse exports competitive with shipments from the United States. The U.S. has had an FTA with the North African country
Cereals, Opinion

CWB Director Has His Facts Wrong

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In the Jan. 6 issueManitoba Co-operator,Canadian Wheat Board-elected director Bill Woods takes aim at the railways for what he calls “slick accounting.” Unfortunately, Woods has his facts wrong, which makes his whole argument meaningless. The annual review of regulated rail rates and charges showed that the revenue of CN and CP came in under the
Cereals, News

Board Skips Tender Due To Low Protein

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The Canadian Wheat Board didn’t fill a recent wheat tender from Japan because its wheat has a lower percentage of protein than Japan usually requires, a spokeswoman for the marketing agency said Jan. 27. But the wheat board remains confident of filling future tenders from Japan, its fourth-largest wheat export market, as talks with Japan’s
Cereals, Crops, News, Oilseeds

Price Outlook Good — But Jumpy

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It doesn’t seem to matter whether analysts are studying the market fundamentals, technical charts or the stars these days, they all agree on one thing. Prices are strong and there is plenty of potential for them to get stronger. But there was a caveat attached to the bullish outlook analysts dangled tantalizingly in front of
Cereals, Crops, Oilseeds, Opinion

Battle For Acres

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It wasn’t many years ago when the grain market could be categorized as the good, the bad and the ugly with most commodities in the last two categories. Based on the market outlook presentations at the recent Crop Production Week in Saskatoon, the appropriate categories for 2011 are not so good, good and really good.
Cereals, News

Grain Rally Less Speculative Than In 2008: Ritz

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The recent rally in grain and oilseed prices is based more on concerns about crop levels than on speculation by investors, Canada’s agriculture minister said Jan. 17. Prices of crops such as wheat, corn, soybeans and canola are at their highest levels in more than 2-1/2 years amid flooding in Australia and dryness in Argentina.
Cereals, News

Australian Operations Boost Viterra’s Year-End

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Expanding Down Under has boosted the bottom line for grain handler Viterra in fiscal 2010. Canada’s largest grain handler, which bought Australia’s ABB Grain in September 2009, on Jan. 19 booked its first full fiscal year including the Adelaide-based grain firm’s revenues and expenses. Viterra reported profit of $145.27 million on $8.256 billion in revenues
Cereals, Crops

Robust Barley So Robust With Climate Change

Climate change is already affecting barley yields in southern Minnesota, and climate change may move the crop’s range farther north, says a University of Minnesota Extension small-grains specialist. Jochum Wiersma says a group of researchers from the university analyzed three decades of the variety Robust’s yield trial and weather data from the university’s Research and

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