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Pulse Crops A Popular Option

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Canadian farmers will devote more acres this year to pulse crops such as lentils, because big global supplies of wheat have hit prospects for the country’s biggest crop while uncertainty overhangs canola. There’s more uncertainty than usual this year, because a late harvest kept many farmers from preparing land for the new crop, said Ken
Cereals, Crops

Viterra Posts Small Loss On Soft Commodity Prices

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Viterra Inc. posted a small fourth-quarter loss Jan. 21 as the top Canadian grain handler grappled with weak fertilizer margins and declining commodity prices, dashing expectations of a modest profit. For the three months ended Oct. 31, Viterra posted a loss of $920,000, or nil per share, compared with net income of $46.8 million, or
Cereals, Crops

World’s Farmers To Grow Less Wheat In 2010

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Farmers will produce the world’s smallest wheat crop in three years in 2010 as big global supplies weigh down prices and steer more acres to other crops, the Canadian Wheat Board said Jan. 15. In its first market outlook of 2010, the board, one of the world’s biggest grain marketers, also said the outlook for
Cereals, Crops, Oilseeds, Opinion

Analysts Weigh In With New-Crop Prices Forecasts

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It’s refreshing to see an analyst come up with actual price forecasts, rather than just dancing around all the issues. What numbers should a producer pencil in for crop prices in the new crop year? That was the multibillion-dollar question for the thousands of producers attending Crop Production Week and the Western Canadian Crop Production
Cereals, News

Wheat Growers’ Group Formed To Protest CWB

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“There was absolutely no reason to have faith in the wheat board.” – WALLY NELSON The way Wally Nelson tells it, it all began in early December 1969 when a farmer named John Wood came to his John Deere dealership to apologize for not being able to pay his bill. There’d been a decent crop
Cereals, News

FCWB Defends Wheat Board Against Ottawa In Court

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“We’re saying a minister should not be able to change or override the regulations and the voting procedures of the Canadian Wheat Board just through a simple letter of instruction and a secret one at that.” – STEWART WELLS Allegations that Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz exceeded his authority by instructing the Canadian Wheat Board to
Cereals, Crops

CWB Sees Exports At 10-Year High

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“The recession doesn’t have a very big impact on the grain trade generally.” GORD FLATEN The Canadian Wheat Board expects to export more grain from the 2009-10 crop year than it has in 10 years, after record-warm September weather led to high crop quality and yields, the CWB said Jan. 6. The CWB raised its
Cereals, Crops, News

Fusarium Costly Foe For Grain Growers

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Fusarium head blight has cost Canada’s grain trade well over $1 billion since it first appeared in a big way in Ontario in the mid-1980s and spread across the West, says Randy Clear of the Canadian Grain Commission. Speaking to a recent conference, he said researchers looking for a way to combat the disease, which
Cereals, Crops

CWB Lowers Wheat And Durum Price Outlooks

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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

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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

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