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Canada Wheat Board To Export Less Grain This Season

By Rod Nickel November 5, 2009

The Canadian Wheat Board plans to export nine per cent less grain in the year ending July 31, 2010, its chief operating officer said Oct. 30, as poor early growing season weather made for smaller wheat and barley crops than a year ago. The crops recovered from a potentially disastrous start with record-hot September weather

Cereals, News

Briefs Continued – for Oct. 29, 2009

October 29, 2009

Drive away hunger: Farm Credit Canada’s (FCC) Drive Away Hunger program finished the last leg of its annual five-week journey on Oct. 16, with 1,627,617 pounds of food raised for food banks nationwide. Six tractor tours took place in Alberta, New Brunswick, Ontario, Quebec, Saskatchewan and Regina (where FCC’s corporate office is located) from October

Cereals, Grain Markets, Oilseeds

Uncertainty About Chinese Demand Collapses Canola

By Don Bousquet October 29, 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 Oct. 23 mixed. Canola prices plunged on news that China wants canola delivered after Nov. 15 to be free of

Cereals, Crops, News

U. S. Farmers Seen Cutting Back On Wheat Planting

By Mark Weinraub October 29, 2009

Many U. S. farmers are likely to abandon plans to plant winter wheat this year due to wet weather delaying seeding, relatively low prices and abundant supplies around the globe, analysts and agronomists said. Chicago Board of Trade wheat futures have risen 21 per cent during the past month, hitting a four-month high on Thursday,

Cereals, News

White Flag Or Prudent Planning?

By Allan Dawson October 22, 2009

A former chair of the Canadian Wheat Board says work should begin now on a compensation package for farmers if a World Trade Organization (WTO) agreement kills the board. Ken Ritter says he is convinced there will be a WTO agreement given most nations’ desire to stimulate the world economy. The current WTO proposal singles

Cereals, Country Crossroads

Partly Barley, Partly Pulse

By Lorraine Stevenson October 22, 2009

Can delicious and nutritious pasta get any better? Technical specialists at the Canadian International Grains Institute (CIGI) say “yes” and they’re working on the recipe to prove it. By substituting a portion of the traditional durum semolina with barley or pulse flour, they’ve come up with a version of spaghetti that’s higher in fibre without

Cereals, Opinion

Barley And Hornets – for Oct. 8, 2009

By Les Mcewan October 8, 2009

…to say that the ethanol industry has driven barley to unacceptable levels is hardly appropriate if the crop is barely meeting the cost of production. When you stir up a hornet’s nest, you get stung. It’s a simple lesson most rural youth learn at an early age, but one I was reminded of recently. A

Cereals, Oilseeds

In Brief… – for Oct. 8, 2009

October 8, 2009

Conditions worsen: Violence on Zimbabwe’s farms, once the country’s economic mainstay, is worsening, the country’s Commercial Farmers Union said on Sept. 30. Many white farmers have been evicted from land by President Robert Mugabe’s government since 2000, as part of a land reform program credited with causing a slump in agriculture. “The reality is that

Cereals, Opinion

The Wheat Board — Or Not

October 8, 2009

JOHN MORRISS EDITORIAL DIRECTOR The standard explanation in news reports is that AWB Ltd., formerly the Australian Wheat Board, last year lost its export monopoly due to fallout from AWB officials paying nearly $300 million in bribes to Saddam Hussein’s government as part of the “Oil-for-Food Scandal.” If so, it seems ironic that one of

Cereals, Crops, Opinion

Letters – for Oct. 1, 2009

October 1, 2009

MWI intervened to save home economics I read with interest, the item, “Home economics heads to the second century at U of M.” (Pg. 12, Sept. 17, 2009) Members of Manitoba Women’s Institute, an organization that has from the start been closely connected with the University of Manitoba and home economics, will also celebrate its

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FCC raises inflation forecast on surging commodity prices

U.S. urges WTO members to rethink core tariff rule in face of China threat

Speculators add to bullish bets in canola

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