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Poor international durum yields mean more business for Canadian grain
Technical specialist will increase customer knowledge of winter wheat
With $5 million in funding in hand, Cigi hopes to address issues around Canadian wheat quality, while also expanding its research on pulse crops
Linda Malcolmson retires from Cigi after 30 years
Richard Phillips is a seed grower from Saskatchewan who has worked for several industry organizations
Richard Phillips is the new president of the Canada Grains Council. The 54-year-old has been the executive director of the Grain Growers of Canada for the past six years and is “ideally suited” for his new role, said grains council chair Chantelle Donohue. Phillips, a third-generation seed grower from Tisdale, Sask., has worked as anDennis Stephens has worked in the grain industry for 50 years as a reporter, grain industry official, and assistant deputy minister of agriculture
After a 50-year career in agriculture, they were lining up to praise — and gently rib — Dennis Stephens at the recent Canada Grains Council annual meeting. “Dennis is first and foremost a journalist with a passion for detail,” said Will Hill, president of Flax Council of Canada. Not to mention one with an appetiteThey come at a time when some question Canada’s emphasis on wheat quality assurance and the registration system
If there is good news in a recent wire service story that told the world some customers are complaining about Canadian wheat that wimped out in the bakery, it’s that complaints over quality are so rare they become news. Chinese officials complained this past winter, suggesting that a lack of processing consistency in the CWRSHigh potential yields, good prices and relatively low production costs have a growing number of farmers interested in winter wheat
It will be a month or so yet before Manitoba farmers get a peek at the winter wheat crop that lies beneath this winter’s heavily insulated snow blanket. Manitoba farmers seeded an estimated 560,000 acres of winter wheat under less-than-ideal, dry conditions last fall, but at least it’s well insulated with lots of snow. “I
