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China Thirsty For Malting Barley

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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
Cereals, Crops

Canadian Wheat Exports Holding Up

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“Over the longer term, if they were to displace higher-quality milling wheat, that would be a concern.” – Bruce Burnett, Cwb Canadian wheat exports are on track for the third-largest volumes of the past decade as competition from cheap European sales affects mainly U. S.-grown soft winter wheat, not the hard varieties Canada grows. Canada
Cereals, Crops

Grain Values Drop In PROs

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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
Cereals, Crops

EU Grain Sale For Aid Will Distort Market

AEuropean Union plan to sell 1.5 million tonnes of surplus grain in the coming months to help the bloc’s poor will weaken feed prices and lead to more offers for EU intervention subsidies, member states warned. The EU in November agreed to sell cereals from its grain mountain to support the needy. Unusually, the sale
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

Australia May Abolish Remaining Wheat Export Rules

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Australia’s wheat-marketi ng regulations should be abolished by September next year, the country’s Productivity Commission said in a draft report released March 22. It said the A$13.9-billion ($12.7-billion) industry, the world’s fourth-largest exporter of the grain, had proved adaptable following the end of a single-desk marketing system for bulk wheat since mid-2008. “The commission considers
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

More Immediate Concerns Deserve Farmers’ Attention

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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
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

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

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