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CashPlus / from page 1 than the average and seven per cent higher than last crop year’s final return, Fitzhenry said. “So it’s (the current pool’s value) worth protecting,” she added. Not only are farmers looking at a record-high malting barley pool return, the CWB expects to export a record volume of at least 1.4
Cereals, News

Cashplus Only Malt Option Now

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The Canadian Wheat Board moved last week to protect record returns to its malting barley pool from volatile and declining world prices. The CWB announced last week further malting barley sales will now be made through its CashPlus option. That way the value of the pool won’t be eroded by lower-priced sales, said CWB spokeswoman
Cereals, Opinion

LETTERS – for Feb. 5, 2009

New legislation has far-reaching implications Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives Minister Rosann Wowchuk has recently announced that under the new Food Safety Act all food premises in the province of Manitoba will have to be licensed. She wants to start with livestock and move her way down to fruits and veggies. I have read these
Cereals, News, Oilseeds

Farmers split over revenue cap excess

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“This is an excellent opportunity for Western Grains Research to share its vision of what could be done with this money. “ – Doug Robertson Farm groups continue to disagree over what to do with the $59.8 million the railways owe them after overcharging to ship grain in 2007-08. Last week the Western Canadian Wheat
Beef cattle, Cereals, Crops, Livestock, Opinion

Farmers and cowmen

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The latest release from the George Morris Centre “Feed grains and livestock in Canada – a reconciliation” brings to mind the lyrics from a certain operetta performed by the Carman Collegiate High School back in the 1970s. “Oh, the farmer and the cowman should be friends… one man likes to push a plow, the other
Cereals, Crops, Opinion

Killing KVD undermines “branding” of western Canadian wheat

“I see KVD (kernel visual distinguishability) as one of the elements that lets Canadian wheat be sold as a branded product.” – JOHN DUVENAUD Kernel visual distinguishabi lity (KVD), which was used for decades to quickly and cheaply identify and segregate eight classes of Western Canadian milling wheat from farm to end-user, was ended abruptly
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CWB chief predicts stable prices in 2009

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World wheat, durum and malting barley prices will stabilize over the next 12 months and be “reasonably high” through 2009, according to Ian White, president and CEO of the Canadian Wheat Board. “Volatility should be reduced by increased stocks in the world, but any significant production or supply side shocks to the system… will reflect
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Farmers urged to lobby for rail costing review

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The millions of dollars the railways are reported to have overcharged western grain farmers underscores the need to review railway costs – and to update the formula used to determine how much the railways can earn hauling grain. So said Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) spokeswoman Maureen Fitzhenry in an interview last week: “We need to
Cereals, News

Open market on hold, but WCWGA still optimistic

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“Whether it’s a few months or a few years, certainly we hope it’s the shorter.” – Kevin Bender The open barley and wheat markets the Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association (WCWGA) has pushed long and hard for is on hold, but its new president is certain it will come someday. “We had hoped it would
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Pooling seen surviving in open market

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Canadian farmers would likely be better off in an open market too, even in the absence of farmer-owned co-ops, according to the chairman of an Australian grain-marketing co-op now working in such a market. With the Australian Wheat Board (AWB) having lost its wheat-marketing monopoly, pooling continues in Australia, according to Ian Wandel, chair of

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