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Editorial: Will Wheat Commission’s PDQ project have any teeth?

Also, A job for the senators: Answering the unanswered questions of UPOV '91

By John Morriss February 17, 2015

If you didn’t read Phil Franz-Warkentin’s article on calculating basis on page 11 last week and don’t still have a copy, you can find it by going to our website and searching for “muddied.” That word appropriately describes the voodoo combination of futures and exchange rates that Prairie grain companies use to calculate their published

Cereals, Opinion

Editorial: The (not so) great farm smackdown

By Laura Rance-Unger February 9, 2015

If you’ve ever watched “smackdown” wrestling on television, you have to admit it’s entertaining, in a perverse sort of way, watching those muscle-bound burly sorts strutting around pounding their chests like apes and shouting insults. Even when they are throwing punches or tossing each other out of the ring, it’s pretty obvious that it’s all

Beef cattle, Livestock

Properly processed feed wheat doesn’t cause tummy trouble

Researchers in Lethbridge swapped wheat for barley in a cattle ration without any  negative effects — but the wheat must be properly processed

By Jennifer Blair January 27, 2015

Shrinking barley acres have cattle producers on the hunt for a low-cost feed option. And feed wheat could be the answer — as long as the wheat is processed properly. “There was a feeling out there that you probably couldn’t feed more than 50 per cent wheat in the diet because wheat is quite rapidly

Gerry Ritz, Canada's agriculture minister

Crops, News

Commercial feed mills to be covered by CGC security

When governing the grain commission Gerry Ritz says ‘if it ain’t broke don’t fix it’

By Allan Dawson January 23, 2015

If Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz gets his way, farmers who sell to feed mills will be protected under the proposed Canadian Grain Commission’s (CGC) producer payment security program. “My direction to them (CGC) is find a way to incorporate feed mills,” Ritz said in an interview Jan. 9. “The direction is, yes, they will be

Our History

Manitoba Weed Fair precursor to Ag Days

Our History: January 1983

January 13, 2015

This ad from our Jan. 6, 1983 issue was for the Manitoba Weed Fair, an annual event which later grew into Ag Days. Back then it was held in two locations — Brandon and Winnipeg. Leading the news that week was a story that the new marketing and stabilization plan under the Manitoba Beef Commission

Cereals, Crops

Asian markets interested in Canada Prairie Spring wheats

Manitoba farmers haven’t shown much interest in the class in recent years focusing instead on CWRS 

By Allan Dawson January 6, 2015

Canada’s Western Red Spring wheat, this country’s flagship wheat that is famous for its bread-making quality, is accustomed to having the spotlight all to itself. But lately two of its siblings — Canada Prairie Spring (CPS) and Canada Western Red Winter classes of wheat have been earning quite a name for themselves with buyers. Interest

Crops

Ont. oat, barley growers approve GFO entry

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff January 5, 2015

Ontario’s barley and oat growers have voted just over three-quarters in favour of representation by the province’s wheat, corn and soybean growers’ organization. Grain Farmers of Ontario (GFO) confirmed Monday that eligible growers voted 77 per cent in favour of the move in a November vote conducted by the Ontario Farm Products Marketing Commission. GFO

Local news

CWB privatization attracts national attention

The former wheat board responds in ‘open letter,’ while the NFU calls on the western provinces  to buy the board’s assets until farmers can take control

By Allan Dawson December 16, 2014

Maybe it was MP Pat Martin’s question to Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz: “Has the minister lost his freaking mind?” or a recent Globe and Mail editorial, but CWB’s transition to a private grain company is getting lots of attention beyond the farm sector. So much so CWB issued an ‘open letter’ Dec. 5 to explain

Opinion

Editorial: The real deal to watch

By Laura Rance-Unger December 15, 2014

There has been quite the media hullabaloo lately over rumours that a large multinational based in the U.S. might be closing in on a deal with CWB, the much abbreviated version of the former Canadian Wheat Board. Whether this rumoured deal is a partnership or acquisition depends on who’s talking, but in reality, it doesn’t

Crops, Markets

Feed barley market quiet, awaiting new year

By GFM Network News, Phil Franz-Warkentin December 11, 2014

CNS Canada –– The feed barley market is in the middle of its seasonal slowdown. While demand should pick back up in the New Year, the prices might not have much room to the upside, given ample feed wheat supplies. “If you didn’t look at the calendar, you could still guess it was December,” said

Daily Network News

Health Canada stops sales of coccidiosis medication Deccox on procedural issue

Canadian cattle herd sees first annual increase since 2018

Olymel parent company sees increased earnings in 2025

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