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Editorial: Fair fees

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There’s an acronym long popular with right-of-centre thinkers from the late economist Milton Friedman to the science fiction author Robert Heinlein: TANSTAAFL. It’s an abbreviation of the concept, ‘there ain’t no such thing as a free lunch,’ and has been used to convey the impossibility of getting something for nothing. One wonders if that’s what
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Crops, Pulses

Some Canadian Exotic Grains customers compensated

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CNS Canada — A few producers who did not receive payment from Canadian Exotic Grains Ltd. have been compensated through the Canadian Grain Commission’s Safeguards for Grain Farmers Program, the commission said Tuesday. Canadian Exotic Grain’s grain dealer license was revoked April 26 after the company was unable to pay producers. On June 4, Saskatchewan
The Canadian Grain Commission building in Winnipeg.
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Grain Commission fees plan meets mixed reaction

Some say excess fees should be refunded, others say 
they’ll never find their way back to farmers

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Western Canada’s grain industry is divided over how the Canadian Grain Commission (CGC) wants to use $90 million in surplus service fees. They were ultimately collected from farmers following fee increases ordered by the Harper government in 2013 to make the CGC self-sufficient. Some groups want the money returned to farmers through reduced CGC fees,
Cereals, News

CFIA certain Canadian wheat is GM free

It’s based on extensive testing of saved export and harvest samples collected by the Canadian Grain Commission

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The Canadian Food Inspect­ion Agency (CFIA) is confident, based on extensive testing, none of the GM wheat it discovered in southern Alberta last summer has entered Canada’s commercial grain-handling or seed system. Canada’s wheat registration system played a role in reaching that conclusion. As of late June, CFIA didn’t know the name of that GM
Cereals, Opinion

Cereals Canada’s irresponsible GM wheat policy

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The discovery of genetically modified (GM) spring wheat plants growing in Alberta is disappointing and damaging to Canadian farmers. And so is the reaction by Cereals Canada — an industry-dominated group that falsely claims to represent farmers. An article published in 2014 quotes Cereals Canada president Cam Dahl saying, “Cereals Canada’s support for GM wheat
The Canadian Grain Commission will use individual standard samples for frost/heat stress and mildew replacing the current combined standard samples as the assessment tools for these grading factors in all classes of western Canadian wheat starting Aug. 1. This photo shows various amounts of mildew versus a sound sample.
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Wheat grading factor changes August 1

Mildew and heat/frost stress will be assessed separately instead of in combination

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Grading factors for mildew and heat/frost stress when grading western Canadian wheat will be tweaked starting Aug. 1, the start of the 2018-19 crop year, the Canadian Grain Commission (CGC) has announced. “It’s not a significant difference,” Daryl Beswitherick, the CGC’s program manager for quality assurance standards and reinspection, said. “The frequency of the factors
GM wheat mystery in Alberta
Cereals, News

GM wheat mystery in Alberta

The discovery of genetically modified wheat in Alberta is a head scratcher

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The mystery over how seven plants of GMO wheat wound up growing next to an Alberta field access road will take some time to unravel. This high-tech whodunit has regulators scratching their heads to figure out how a known glyphosate-resistance gene from Monsanto got into an unknown variety of wheat hundreds of kilometres from the
Canadian wheat is under the microscope following the discovery of an unapproved genetically modified variety in Alberta.
Cereals, News

Wheat sector moves to reassure customers after GM wheat discovery

Industry groups and regulators all say the commercial channels remain GM free

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The race is on to reassure Canadian wheat customers following the revelation genetically modified wheat was found last summer in Alberta. Already Japan and South Korea have shut the door to shipments from Canada in the wake of the finding, a move that echoes their reaction to similar past discoveries in the U.S. There were

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