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New Herbicide Sought

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff December 24, 2009

The federal government is contributing $772,000 to help Pulse Canada develop a herbicide that will dry crops faster for easier harvesting. New restrictions for herbicide residues mean there are fewer products available for desiccation as harvest aids for dry bean growers in Canada. The funding will allow researchers to evaluate what is currently available and

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

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, Crops, Grain Markets

Are Higher Wheat Prices Real?

By Don Bousquet December 3, 2009

For three-times-daily market reports from Don Bousquet and RNI, visit “ICE Futures Canada updates” at www.manitobacooperator.ca Grain and oi l s e e d prices at ICE Futures Canada in Winnipeg closed the week ended Nov. 27 fractionally higher. Gains in the U. S. markets, friendly technical signals and slower farmer selling gave some support

Cereals, Country Crossroads

Barley Flour Makes Fantastic Tortillas

By Western Grains Research Foundation December 3, 2009

If it takes a proven health claim to gain consumer acceptance of barley-based food products, then that’s what Nancy Ames plans to do. Ames, a cereal grain research scientist with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada in Winnipeg, used funding from the Western Grains Research Foundation’s Endowment Fund to develop new food uses for barley. “It started

Cereals, Opinion

Letters – for Nov. 26, 2009

November 26, 2009

If it doesn’t pay, don’t produce it Growing wheat for sale to the Canadian Wheat Board, I’ve ended up with $1.86 per bushel. From a total price of $11,626.02, I end up with $6,065.35; they took $5,560.67 for expenses, including weighing inspection ($44.35), elevator cleaning ($1,729.65), the freight adjustment ($1,398.62), rail freight ($2,344.34) and the

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

Cereals, News

AAFC Predicts Stocks Offsetting Lower Production Staff

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff November 12, 2009

Canadian wheat was delayed by below-normal temperatures in the spring and the first half of the summer, but unusually warm and mostly dry conditions in September in Western Canada resulted in normal to better-than-normal quality. Market analysts at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada foresee lower production of wheat, durum and barley in 2009-10, offset by availability

Cereals, Crops

EU Grain Maintains Swell — Again

By Michael Hogan November 5, 2009

Farmers in the European Union, troubled by falling prices, are likely to ease market pressure by offering hundreds of thousands of tonnes of barley into EU stores, leaving the bloc with a new mountain of surplus cereals. The EU supports farmers by guaranteeing it will buy some crops at a minimum price in its intervention

Daily Network News

USDA attachés forecast some changes in China’s oilseeds, cereals

China urges hog producers to manage output, vows timely reserve adjustments

Farm Credit Canada offers aid to farmers, companies affected by Iran war price spikes

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