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Money No Guarantee Of Win In CWB Election

By Allan Dawson April 23, 2009

Candidates who spent the most money or received the most donations during last fall’s Canadian Wheat Board election didn’t always win, according to the election co-ordinator’s report on election donations and spending. For example, District 8 incumbent Rod Flaman received $1,698 in donations towards his reelection campaign to the CWB’s board of directors and spent

Cereals, Livestock

Poultry Processing To Roll Into B. C. Interior

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff April 16, 2009

The federal government’s plan to diversify parts of B. C. where the mountain pine beetle has eaten into the forestry sector will include funds for a mobile poultry-processing unit. The federal Western Economic Diversification department will put up $220,000 through its two-year, $33 million Community Economic Diversification Initiative (CEDI), for the Cariboo-Central Interior Poultry Producers

Cereals, News

Grain Act Bill Dead Or Delayed

By Allan Dawson April 9, 2009

“The key here is that this hoist motion actually kills the bill before it even has a chance to make it to committee.” – PIERRE LEMIEUX Opposition parties employed a rarely used parliamentary tactic to effectively kill the federal government’s proposed legislation amending the Canada Grain Act last week. Just as the government was preparing

Cereals, Opinion

Is This “Modernization?”

April 9, 2009

JOHN MORRISS EDITORIAL DIRECTOR While appointments to the Canadian Wheat Board have traditionally been at a reasonable arm’s length from politics (at least until the director appointments were hijacked by the current government), it’s always been understood that things are different at the Canadian Grain Commission. Appointments have almost always been given to those with

Cereals, Crops, News, Oilseeds, Pulses

Competitive Improvements Depend On Your View

By Alex Binkley April 9, 2009

Farm groups trying to answer MPs’ questions about improving the competitiveness of producers have a lot of similar suggestions mixed with the occasional poke at the Canadian Wheat Board. Most have told the Commons agriculture committee the industry needs more basic research, expanded trade deals, better transportation and more domestic processing. They share considerable optimism

Cereals, News

Canadian Wheat Board Branding Effort Two Years Later

By Rod Nickel April 9, 2009

Amarketing strategy to give Canadian wheat an identity like the iconic Juan Valdez for Colombian coffee growers is a long-term attempt to increase demand, but one grain expert says it will be a stiff challenge. The Canadian Wheat Board, which has a government-granted monopoly on wheat and barley sales from Western Canada, the country’s major

Cereals, Crops, News

New-Crop Wheat PROs Rise With River

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff April 2, 2009

Concern that the rising Red River will delay seeding, long enough for farmers in Manitoba, Minnesota and the Dakotas to switch to soybeans, is among the factors supporting the new-crop wheat outlook. The Canadian Wheat Board on March 26 rolled out its latest pool return outlooks (PROs) for both 2009-10 and 2008-09, showing the biggest

Cereals, News

Report Rips Tories’ CWB, CGC Policies

By Alex Binkley April 2, 2009

“Piece by piece, the minority Conservative government under Stephen Harper is dismantling Canada’s highly successful grain system.” The Canadian Grain Commission and the Canadian Wheat Board are essential to the export success of Prairie farmers but the Harper Conservatives are trying to destroy them, a report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives says. The

Cereals, Crops, News, Oilseeds

Canada’s Share Of World Wheat Market Drops

By Dwayne Klassen April 2, 2009

Shares of the world wheat market in the upcoming 2009-10 crop year are expected to decline for both Canada and the U. S. from 2008-09, with the EU-27, Ukraine, Russia and Argentina picking up most of that decline. The five top major wheat-exporting countries include the U. S., Canada, Australia, the EU-27 and Argentina, according

Cereals, Crops, News

Farmers Urged To Keep Grain Coming

By Allan Dawson March 26, 2009

For once the stars have aligned in favour of farmers. Wheat exports from Canada are moving at a blistering pace while prices remain relatively strong. Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) grain movement since October has been well above the five-and 10-year average and could be the biggest since 1999-2000. The only potential fly in the ointment

Daily Network News

Feed Grain Weekly: Seasonal gains expected this spring

Klassen: Stronger barley prices weigh on feeder cattle values

Russia stops ammonium nitrate exports for one month amid global supply crunch

Tag Archives Barley

Money No Guarantee Of Win In CWB Election

Poultry Processing To Roll Into B. C. Interior

Grain Act Bill Dead Or Delayed

Is This “Modernization?”

Competitive Improvements Depend On Your View

Canadian Wheat Board Branding Effort Two Years Later

New-Crop Wheat PROs Rise With River

Report Rips Tories’ CWB, CGC Policies

Canada’s Share Of World Wheat Market Drops

Farmers Urged To Keep Grain Coming

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