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CWB privatizing sooner than later

By Allan Dawson January 30, 2013

The CWB is talking to potential partners about taking the government-owned grain company private sooner than later. “We’ve been talking to people already in the grain industry and people who are not and want to invest in it,” Gord Flaten, the CWB’s vice-president for grain procurement, told reporters Jan. 16 after speaking at Ag Days.

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Supreme Court hammers another nail in wheat board’s coffin

By Allan Dawson January 30, 2013

But the Friends of the Canadian Wheat Board  will continue to pursue a class-action lawsuit for  $17 billion in compensation

With their appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada rejected, the Friends of the Canadian Wheat Board (FCWB) are vowing to continue with a class-action lawsuit, their last remaining legal avenue for challenging the federal government’s decision to end the board’s monopoly last year. The Supreme Court has refused to hear appeals of the eight

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DDGS on sale, but buyers wary

By Phil Franz-Warkentin January 17, 2013

Prices for DDGS — dried distillers grains (with solubles) — have come down significantly over the past few weeks, but are still too high when compared to other feed options. “Prices are dropping, but they haven’t dropped significantly enough to attract Canadian buyers,” said Ryan Slozka, senior commodity trader with Rycom Trading, a major importer

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Let the good times roll

By Allan Dawson January 7, 2013

Some scoffed when federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz said farmers wouldn’t have to start their trucks in winter because in an open market they could deliver all their wheat in fall. Not Norm Mabon. The Notre Dame de Lourdes farmer did just as Ritz forecast. “One hundred per cent of my wheat was sold and

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Time to move past divisive wheat-marketing debate

By Allan Dawson January 7, 2013

Richard Gray won’t miss the fighting amongst western Canadian farmers over the Canadian Wheat Board. The University of Saskatchewan agricultural economist says the long, divisive debate distracted farmers from tackling even more financially important issues such as crop research. Grain marketing has been a touchy issue. A farmer who declined to be interviewed likened it

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Railway revenues rekindle costing review calls

By Allan Dawson January 4, 2013

Canada’s two major railways once again tipped over the statutory cap revenues for shipping grain during the 2011-12 crop year — costing farmers an extra two cents per tonne. “It underscores again the need for a costing review to parallel the (rail) service review,” Bladworth Sask., farmer and agricultural economist Ian McCreary said in an

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Grain Growers funded to promote grain sales

By Allan Dawson December 5, 2012

Fifty thousand dollars in federal government money is going to the Grain Growers of Canada to promote Canadian grain, which will include sending farmers on overseas trade missions. It’s part of $208,000 David Anderson, parliamentary secretary for the Canadian Wheat Board, announced here Nov. 21 during the annual Grain Industry Symposium organized by the Canada

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Canadian grain farmers enjoying good times

By Allan Dawson December 4, 2012

It’s a great time to be a farmer in Western Canada, but don’t expect the good times to last forever, grain industry officials said during the Fields on Wheels conference in Winnipeg Nov. 9. “This is truly a time of opportunity,” said Richard Wansbutter, Viterra’s vice-president of government and commercial relations. “I really think these

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Europe lifts import duties on feed grains in bid to reduce price pressure

December 1, 2012

reuters / The European Union’s cereals management committee has extended the suspension of import duties for quotas of feed wheat and barley until June. This summer, high grain prices prompted the EU to temporarily lift import duties of 12 euros per tonne for low- and medium-quality wheat and 16 euros a tonne for feed barley.

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Post-CWB monopoly system receives record grain volume Q1

By Allan Dawson November 30, 2012

Concerns that Canada’s grain pipeline would initially struggle in the wake of ending the Canadian Wheat Board’s monopoly have proven groundless. A record 14 million tonnes of grain were delivered to the Canadian grain-handling system during the first 15 weeks of the crop year, Cargill Canada president Len Penner told the Grain Industry Symposium here

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Tag Archives Barley

CWB privatizing sooner than later

Supreme Court hammers another nail in wheat board’s coffin

DDGS on sale, but buyers wary

Let the good times roll

Time to move past divisive wheat-marketing debate

Railway revenues rekindle costing review calls

Grain Growers funded to promote grain sales

Canadian grain farmers enjoying good times

Europe lifts import duties on feed grains in bid to reduce price pressure

Post-CWB monopoly system receives record grain volume Q1

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