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Barley, a smart carbohydrate

Recipe Swap: Savory Butternut Squash Barley Pilaf, Quick Breakfast Bread, and Curried Chicken and Barley

By Lorraine Stevenson November 21, 2014

With winter well on its way early November is when we look for those filling, satisfying foods that give us energy and comfort for coping with cold weather. Barley recipes are especially popular during the month of November for many reasons. They’re the perfect ingredient for making the soups and stews we like to make

Crops, News

New provincial wheat and barley groups pledge to co-operate

There's agreement collaboration will make farmers' checkoff dollars stretch further

By Allan Dawson November 14, 2014

Western Canada’s new provincial wheat and barley organizations agree their best path forward is co-operating to make the best use of farmers’ checkoff dollars — but that doesn’t mean there won’t be some bumps in the road. Some were evident during a panel discussion at the Interprovincial Seed Growers meeting in Winnipeg Nov. 5 when

Opinion

Editorial: Wheat prices – a great big mess

By John Morriss November 14, 2014

Critics of the Canadian Wheat Board used to routinely point to published price quotes for U.S. Dark Northern Spring (DNS) wheat from the Pacific Northwest (PNW) and assume that was a benchmark price for all wheat sold in the world. If the board got less, it must have screwed up, said the critics. In fact

Crops, Local news

Immediate priorities identified for new wheat and barley organizations

One is deciding if farmers should own their own plant-breeding company

By Allan Dawson November 13, 2014

There are two pressing issues the West’s new provincial wheat and barley organizations need to address soon, a Manitoba consultant working for the Manitoba Wheat and Barley Growers Association (MWBGA) says. One is prepare for the July 17, 2017 end of the temporary western Canadian wheat and barley checkoff for funding research and market development,

Crops, Local news

KAP calls for mandatory reporting of grain prices

Farmers need more  information

By Allan Dawson November 6, 2014

Farmers are finding the promise of marketing freedom rings hollow in the absence of enough price information to make informed decisions. Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP) is calling on federal and provincial governments to implement mandatory price reporting on agricultural commodities, similar to what exists in the U.S. “We’ve been given the right to freedom and choice

Crops

Ont. barley, oat growers set to vote on GFO membership

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff October 27, 2014

Ontario’s Farm Products Marketing Commission will run a vote for the province’s oats and barley growers starting Friday, to decide whether Grain Farmers of Ontario (GFO) will be the growers’ voice going forward. The commission will conduct a mail-in vote from Friday (Oct. 31) to Nov. 17 to see whether oat and barley growers wish

Cereals, Opinion

Restless farmers and the Prairie grain business

What goes around…

By John Morriss October 27, 2014

While the percentage of grain buyers in heaven may only be slightly higher than that for railroaders, the stories that grandpa (or now great-grandpa) told about being shafted by the grain companies early in the last century may have been a trifle exaggerated. Then, as now, there was a bit of a “shoot the messenger”

Cereals, Oilseeds, Opinion

Editorial: Farmers shouldn’t get mad, they should get organized

Present regulatory system doesn't allow Canadian farmers' voice to be heard

By Laura Rance-Unger October 13, 2014

It will be bitterly disappointing to many farmers that the Canadian Transportation Agency chose to reject a level-of-service complaint filed by the Canola Growers of Canada over last winter’s rail service. The Canola Growers’ level-of-service complaint was the one opportunity farmers had to extract some compensation for their losses in last winter’s debacle, even if

CWB’s 2012-13 annual report was tabled in Parliament four months late, but most of the report has been deemed too commercially sensitive to release, much to the dismay of the Friends of the Canadian Wheat Board. photo: cwb

Cereals, News

CWB annual report: notes but no numbers

The Friends of the Canadian Wheat Board suspects the report is too politically sensitive to be made public

By Allan Dawson September 25, 2014

How well did CWB, the government grain company formed after Ottawa ended the Canadian Wheat Board’s sales monopoly July 31, 2012, do during its first year in an open market? We may never know. Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz tabled CWB’s 2012-13 annual report, including its audited financial statement, in Parliament in July. But only the

Cereals, Crops, News

Farmers of North America has a plan for a farmer-owned CWB

What isn’t clear is if CWB supports the idea or if the organizations have even discussed it

By Allan Dawson September 19, 2014

Farmers of North America (FNA) wants to help farmers get majority ownership of CWB, but neither organization is saying whether they’ve discussed the plan or if CWB supports it. Saskatoon-headquartered FNA, which describes itself as “a business alliance of farmers dedicated to maximizing farm profitability,” outlines on its website a plan to create a farmer-owned

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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