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CWB candidates’ debate broadcast

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Single-desk selling versus a dual market dominated a discussion between the five candidates running for Canadian Wheat Board director in District 10 broadcast on Radio Southern Manitoba Oct. 29. Incumbent and single-desk supporter Bill Toews argued the focus should be on single-desk selling versus an open market. “There is no model for a dual market,”
Cereals, News

Wheat board bans freelancer

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Freelance reporter and commentator Harry Siemens was excluded from two Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) news conferences because of his rude behaviour, not because he’s a wheat board critic, says Louise Waldman, the CWB’s manager of media relations and advertising. “He has used news conferences in the past to air his own personal opinion as opposed
Cereals, News

Big EU harvest cheers brewers, not drinkers

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“ This price reduction provides a certain amount of relief on brewers’ costs… but a beer retail price cut is not to be expected.” – German beverage industry analyst Reiner Klinz Europe’s big barley crop has caused a sharp fall in prices for brewing malt, but while breweries may benefit, beer drinkers will have little
Cereals, News

CWB election candidates finalized

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Nineteen farmers are running for five Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) directors’ positions this fall in an election many believe will be the most important since CWB governance was changed in 1998. The mandate and perhaps the very existence of the CWB hangs in the balance as farmers vote in Districts 2, 4, 6, 8 and
Cereals, Crops

“Hand-to-mouth” buying bites into PROs

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Offset somewhat by recent declines in both the Canadian dollar and ocean freight rates, uncertainty in markets continues to impact buying behaviour among the Canadian Wheat Board’s customers, the board said. Grain processors have drawn down inventories, delayed capital investments and moved to “hand-to-mouth” purchasing at a time of record world wheat supply, the CWB
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CWB ballot application form revised

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The application form farmers use to get a ballot in the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) director elections has been replaced after a flaw was discovered. Part 1. C of the form says the land listed earlier in the form by an applicant is not listed in the applicant’s CWB permit book. Most of the applicants
Cereals, News

Five farmers run in District 10 CWB election

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Incumbent District 10 Canadian Wheat Board director Bill Toews faces four challengers for his job. Harvey Vaags of Dugald and Barry Reimer of Killarney were the last to throw their hats in the ring before nominations for wheat board directors to be elected in even-numbered districts closed last week. Rolf Penner of Morris, Curtis Sims
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Australia’s AWB finalizes restructuring

Australian agribusiness and former wheat export monopoly holder AWB Ltd. has completed a restructuring designed to strengthen its grain-marketing business. AWB, Australia’s largest grain marketer, said Oct. 19 shareholders had approved a new constitution as the final step in a restructuring sparked by the deregulation of Australia’s grain industry. The government opened Australia’s wheat export
Cereals, Crops, News, Oilseeds

Winter wheat acres down

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“The biggest single factor was with harvesting so delayed, guys were just focused on harvesting the crop and didn’t have stubble conditions ready by the crop insurance deadline date.” – Mike Grenier While final figures remained unconfirmed, it appears winter wheat acres will be significantly lower across the province in 2009. Manitoba Agriculture Food and
Cereals, Opinion

LETTERS – for Oct. 23, 2008

CWB needed now more than ever Several decades of deregulation championed by Britain’s Margaret Thatcher, U. S. president Ronald Reagan, Canada’s Brian Mulroney, and their biggest cheerleader, Stephen Harper, have come home to roost with the global market meltdown. Of course we have been here before. For farmers the real depression started in 1921 with

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