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Barley Outlook Poor Despite Small Crop

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For three-times-daily market reports from Don Bousquet and RNI, visit “ICE Futures Canada updates” at www.manitobacooperator.ca Grain and oilseed prices at ICE Futures Canada in Winnipeg closed the week ended Sept. 3 lower, with big declines in canola. Canola was undermined by weakness in the Chicago soy complex, the beginning of the harvest, favourable weather
Cereals, News

Farmers See Smaller Share Of Bigger Grocery Bill

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If a Winnipeg family wants to know how Canadian farmers’ wares are faring in the marketplace, they won’t find the answer on their grocery bill, a new study released by Keystone Agricultural Producers suggests. Shopping trips for the same basket of foods on May 10, 2008 and June 2, 2009 find the grocery bill for
Cereals, Crops

Crops Briefs

Air attack approved on early potato blight Bayer CropScience has picked up regulatory approval for aerial application of its fungicide Scala on potato crops. Scala, a Group 9 pyrimethanil product, is the only fungicide in its group registered for control of early blight in potatoes, Bayer said. It’s had registration for ground application against early
Cereals, Crops, Oilseeds

Linear Grain Will Handle CWB Crops

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Carman-headquartered Linear Grain will soon be handling Canadian Wheat Board crops, giving farmers another delivery option. “We’re slowly increasing our storage capacity to better serve our customers,” Linear grain merchant Ryan McKnight said in an interview Aug. 27. “We’ve bought another 10 big bins increasing our (grain storage) capacity by about 1,600 metric tonnes.” To
Cereals, Hogs, Opinion

Letters – for Aug. 27, 2009

CWB promotion waste of farmers’ money Having been in the business world for over a decade before entering farming, we found our best advertisement didn’t cost us a cent. Simply, do a better job than your competition, be fair and honest, and business took care of itself. The Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) does the exact
Cereals, News

Canada Wheat Board Told To Pay In Damaged Wheat Row

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A judge has ordered the Canadian Wheat Board to pay two of its overseas grain customers $1.8 million to resolve a 26-year-old dispute over frost-damaged spring wheat. A Canadian judge ruled July 17 that the CWB is liable for negligently misrepresenting the quality of the wheat. The CWB had told its customers and exporters in
Cereals, Crops

Early Warning For Fusarium In Oats Lacking

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The symptoms of fusarium head blight in cereal crops are classic. Portions of the heads appear bleached, blighted and straw coloured. But while it’s easy to detect fusarium in wheat and barley, it’s not so easy in oats. Commercial oats tend not to show symptoms of the disease until the crop is practically in the
Cereals, Crops, News

Frost Threatens Late-Developing Prairie Grain Crop

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The threat of an early and devastat ing frost hangs over the western Canadian grain industry as anxious farmers hope for warm weather in August to ripen seriously delayed crops. Nearly all of the Prairie grain region has experienced much below-normal temperatures so far this growing season, putting crops two to three weeks behind their
Cereals, Crops

Wheat Values Slip In 2009-10 PROs

Upwardly revised estimates of U. S. wheat acres, record-high exports from producers overseas and a strong loonie have combined to cut down the Canadian Wheat Board’s 2009-10 pool return outlooks (PROs) for wheat by $12 to $17 per tonne. Among the July PROs released July 23, lower international durum values pressured the new-crop durum outlook
Cereals, Crops

CWB Wants To Appeal “Gag Order”

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“We think it’s a fundamental issue to the CWB. It’s about farmers having control of the Canadian Wheat Board. It’s as simple as that.” – Larry Hill The struggle over who controls the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) – its board of directors or the federal government – might be decided by the Supreme Court of

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