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Opinion: My trade mission in South America

By Fred Greig December 4, 2018

South America is a long way from my farm near Reston, Manitoba. I left home on November 11 as the farmer representative on the South American leg of the 2018 Canadian wheat new crop missions. Between November and December, new crop mission seminars will take place in 17 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, Middle East,

Efficiency in Canada's grain pipeline will play a major part when competing against other countries.

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How to beat the Black Sea

Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan are going to be fierce competition in the coming years

By Allan Dawson November 16, 2018

There’s good news and bad news for Canadian grain shippers. Western Canadian offshore grain exports are running ahead of last year despite harvest delays and the railways are performing well. But Canada’s grain monitor warns to compete with increasing exports from the Black Sea region, Canada must keep its grain pipeline efficient. “Canada has one

Cereals, Opinion

Cereals Canada’s irresponsible GM wheat policy

By Stewart Wells July 4, 2018

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

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Cigi, Cereals Canada explore merger

The two organizations already work closely and have some of the same members and directors

By Allan Dawson May 24, 2018

Two Winnipeg grain industry organizations have joined the list of those pondering collaboration and even a possible merger. The Canadian International Grains Institute (Cigi) and Cereals Canada say now may be the time to band together. Cigi was created in 1972 to promote Canadian grain and field crops to domestic and international processors. Besides overseas

Cereals, News, Other

The wheat class review process

The focus was on addressing customer complaints that wheats  in the CWRS class had reduced gluten strength

By Allan Dawson May 11, 2018

Customer complaints about lower gluten strength wheat in the Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS) class started making headlines in 2013. But industry officials including Earl Geddes, then the executive director of the Canadian International Grains Institute (Cigi), and then Canadian Grain Commission (CGC) chief commissioner Elwin Hermanson, said the problem could be fixed. Chinese officials

Former agriculture minister and Conservative MP Gerry Ritz speaking to the House of Commons agriculture committee’s emergency meeting on the grain transportation backlog in Ottawa March 19.

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Rail had it easier when the wheat board existed

According to Gerry Ritz, that’s because the CWB shipped grain in ‘dribs and drabs’

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff April 3, 2018

Former agriculture minister and Conservative MP Gerry Ritz appeared before the House of Commons agriculture committee during an emergency meeting March 19 in Ottawa to discuss the grain transportation backlog in Western Canada. Alistair MacGregor, the NDP MP for Cowichan —Malahat — Langford in British Columbia asked Ritz about the former Canadian Wheat Board’s role

Walter Bushuk, one of Canada’s most celebrated cereal chemists, passed away in Winnipeg Oct. 14.

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Celebrated Canadian cereal chemist Walter Bushuk passes away

The son of immigrant farmers was internationally recognized for his research into wheat quality

By Allan Dawson October 26, 2017

Walter Bushuk, one of Canada’s most celebrated cereal chemists, died in Winnipeg Oct. 18 at 88 years of age. When Bushuk started school in Garland, Manitoba in September 1939, he was 10 and only knew a few words of English. Seventeen years later, the son of Eastern European peasant farmers who came to Canada just

Victor Martens, seen here in 1981, was the founding executive director of Cigi.

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Cigi’s first executive director dead at 97

Teaching himself as he went along, Victor Martens quickly rose through the grain industry

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff August 3, 2017

The man who conceived the Canadian International Grains Institute and was the organization’s first executive director died on July 26. Victor Martens was 97 and had a formidable career in the agriculture sector, all without the benefit of formal post-secondary education. In 1938 he visited the Grain Research Laboratory in Winnipeg searching for a job.

On board: Gary Stanford, Trent Rude, Jean-Marc Ruest, Harvey Brooks, Kevin Bender (back, l-r), Brent Watchorn, Cigi CEO JoAnne Buth, Drew Baker, Bill Gehl and Jim Smolik (front, l-r). (Photo courtesy Cigi)

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Prairie wheat commissions, grain firms to fund Cigi

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff July 4, 2017

The technical institute for Canadian field crops will get its core funding from now on through the Prairies’ major grain export firms and its three provincial wheat grower commissions. Cigi, the Canadian International Grains Institute, on Tuesday announced the new funding model, plus a new governance model setting up a new 10-member board of directors

Cereals, News

Single checkoff coming for wheat growers

The new system will fund both wheat variety development and Cigi, say the provincial wheat groups

By Allan Dawson February 9, 2017

Wheat growers can expect to see a simplified checkoff system in the coming crop year. Beginning August 1, 2017, they’ll see checkoffs for the provincial associations combined with the transitional checkoff for funding variety research and market development. Those funds, collected through the temporary Western Canadian Deduction (WCD) checkoff, have since 2012 funded the Western

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Women who fed a nation

U.S. grains: Soybeans rise on China demand hopes; corn and wheat rebound

U.S. livestock: Hogs rebound, cattle hit upward limits

Tag Archives Canadian International Grains Institute

Opinion: My trade mission in South America

How to beat the Black Sea

Cereals Canada’s irresponsible GM wheat policy

Cigi, Cereals Canada explore merger

The wheat class review process

Rail had it easier when the wheat board existed

Celebrated Canadian cereal chemist Walter Bushuk passes away

Cigi’s first executive director dead at 97

Prairie wheat commissions, grain firms to fund Cigi

Single checkoff coming for wheat growers

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