U.S. flour production in 2025 was the lowest in 14 years.
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Flour production slumps in the U.S., increases in Canada
The slowdown in U.S. flour production is linked to the rise of wheat-free diets
U.S. pressuring Canada on grain grading
Grain companies say current regulations are no impediment
U.S. officials say this country’s grain-grading system is to blame for why American farmers living close to the border can’t take advantage of higher Canadian wheat prices. But Canadian officials deny claims by U.S. administration and U.S. Wheat Associates that Canada’s quality control system discriminates against imported U.S. wheat. Canadian officials concede imported U.S. wheat
Feds extend railway grain-shipping targets
Most of the industry supports the move, but millers fear it will lead to domestic changes
Ottawa’s last-minute decision to continue setting grain-shipping targets for the railways until March 28, 2015 has the support of western elevator companies and most farm groups, but not Canadian millers. “It’s good news that they are keeping the spotlight on grain transportation for this winter period,” Wade Sobkowich, executive director of the Western Grain Elevator
Grain shippers: Worried about a repeat of poor railway performance
The railways say there hasn’t been enough grain to move to meet their government-mandated thresholds
Ottawa has ordered the railways to move at least 526,250 tonnes of grain a week and there’s a smaller crop so there should be no worries about getting this year’s crop to market, right? Wrong. “Yes, we’re nervous about it,” Wade Sobkowich, executive director of the Western Grain Elevator Association (WGEA), said in an interview
Poor rail service blamed for some Canadian mills closing temporarily after running out of grain
The transportation crisis is hurting domestic grain customers too, says CNMA president Gordon Harrison
Western Canada’s grain train backlog is hurting the industry’s Canadian customers too with some millers forced to close due to a lack of supply, the president of the Canadian National Millers Association (CNMA) says. “Prolonged interruptions of up to three to four weeks in wheat and oat delivery by rail to mills have literally forced
Cwb Impasse Stymies Buyers
Canadian millers could be forced to import wheat from the U.S. if they can t forward contract with the Canadian Wheat Board or private trade during the transition to an open market, industry officials say. Millers and other food processors routinely forward contract wheat up to a year in advance but the pending end of
Controversial Wheat Comes To An Official End – for Aug. 5, 2010
Periodically, the Prairie grain industry faces controversy when wheat growers find varieties which offer apparent agronomic benefits, but with quality characteristics that don’t fit official classes. The deregistration of the wheat variety Garnet earlier last month reminds that such controversies are not new. Licensing of Garnet prompted national political discussion in the 1920s and 1930s.
Grain Industry Worried By New Toxin Limits
Canada’s grain industry wants safer food, but it doubts pending regulations to restrict exposure to ochratoxin A (OTA), a suspected carcinogen in grains and other foods, will be effective. In the meantime, those regulations threaten to add costs throughout the pipeline from farmer to food processor. “There really needs to be a supply chain solution,”
Push For GM Wheat Resurrected
Five years to the month after Monsanto shelved its controversial Roundup Ready genetically modified (GM) wheat, farm groups in Canada, Australia and the United States are pushing for the “synchronized introduction” of biotech wheat. The Grain Growers of Canada, Wes tern Canadian Wheat Growers Association (WCWGA) and Alberta Winter Wheat Producers Commission are leading the
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