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Markets Toss And Turn On Economic Uncertainty

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ICE Futures Canada canola contracts bounced around within a relatively narrow range during the week ended Oct. 28, posting declines in most months, aside from the nearby November. The gains in the front month were tied to position-evening ahead of deliveries against the contract, as traders exited their positions in November and the spread narrowed
Cereals, Crops

CWB Issues Interim Payments

STAFF / Prairie wheat and barley growers who delivered to the Canadian Wheat Board in the 2010-11 crop year will receive interim payments starting Nov. 8. The biggest of the per-tonne interim payments will go to No. 2 Canada Western Red Spring, 15.5 per cent protein, at $55.20; the lowest, $2.80, will go to No.
Cereals, News

Ending CWB Monopoly Brings Big Changes

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Next August 1 ushers in what is arguably the most radical policy shift in Western Canada s grain industry since the Canadian Wheat Board monopoly was created nearly 69 years ago. Western wheat, durum and barley farmers will have marketing freedom. What then? Farmers and the industry are divided over whether it will usher in
Cereals, Opinion

KAP’s Policy On The CWB

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The future of the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) and the Canadian government s decision to remove its single-desk marketing structure continues to be the paramount issue affecting Prairie farmers this fall. Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP) has strived to take a balanced approach in dealing with this issue while using our official policy positions as guidelines.
Cereals, Opinion

Letters – for Oct. 27, 2011

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We welcome readers comments on issues that have been covered in the Manitoba Co-operator.In most cases we cannot accept open letters or copies of letters which have been sent to several publications. Letters are subject to editing for length or taste. We suggest a maximum of about 300 words. Please forward letters to ManitobaCo-operator, 1666DublinAve.,Winnipeg,
Cereals, News

Conservatives Pull Out All Stops To Ram CWB Bill Into Law

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CO-OPERATOR CONTRIBUTOR / OTTAWA The Conservatives have the legislation to strip the Canadian Wheat Board of its wheat and barley monopoly on a forced march through Parliament. Second reading debate began Oct. 19 and was set to conclude Oct. 24 as theCo-operatorwas going to press. The government will use its majority to give the bill
Cereals, Grain Markets

Viterra Says CWB Can Thrive In Open Market

Winnipeg / reuters Canada s biggest grain handler, Viterra Inc., is willing to work with the Canadian Wheat Board in an open-market system and thinks the board can thrive without its marketing monopoly, chief executive Mayo Schmidt said Oct. 21. If the wheat board chooses to engage with industry to frame out a relationship and
Cereals, News

Marketing Freedom Bill Hits House

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When Bill 18 the Grain Marketing Freedom for Farmers Act becomes law, the board s 10 farmer-elected directors will be fired and the five remaining government-appointed directors, including current president and CEO Ian White, will be in charge. Grain companies will be allowed to forward contract wheat, durum and barley for the 2011-12 crop year.
Cereals, News

Millions For Churchill

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The Port of Churchill is getting millions of federal dollars to help it adjust to an open market starting Aug. 1, 2012. Eighty-five per cent of the total traffic, and almost all of the grain exported through Prairie Canada s only seaport, comes from the Canadian Wheat Board. Last year it exported 659,000 tonnes of

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