CWB and Primo Foods launch national pasta promotion

“We want Canadian consumers to value this wheat as much as our export customers do.” – IAN WHITE, PRESIDENT AND CEO OF THE CANADIAN WHEAT BOARD Television commercials and other promotional messages will soon be telling Canadian consumers pasta is made from Prairiegrown durum wheat. They’re part of a national campaign launched last week between

Election changes little on farm scene

The Conservative win in the Oct. 14 election brought little change to the farm scene in Parliament. Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz was re-elected with a comfortable margin in his western Saskatchewan riding, despite the national flap over his “cold cuts” comments. Ritz’s main critics, Liberal Wayne Easter and the NDP’s Alex Atamanenko, also won in


Canada’s farmers nervously eye financial crisis

“I think what started out looking like a great year has suddenly… chilled a little bit.” Canadian farmers, alarmed by plunging commodity prices, are nervous that the global financial crisis could tighten up the credit they count on to tackle the rising cost of planting crops and feeding livestock. There have been few signs of