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CN to boost fines for overloaded cars

Manitoba grain growers loading producer cars to roll on CN track will need to carefully check cars’ load limits or risk fines of up to $10,000 per car, the Canadian Wheat Board warns.CNon Jan. 1, 2009 will raise the fee from $1,560 per car to $10,000 per car in cases where it determines it’s unsafe
Cereals, News

Conditions favour CWB single desk: USDA

Declining grain prices, the Conservative government’s ongoing minority status and the current global financial crisis may help protect the Canadian Wheat Board’s single marketing desk “for a while longer,” a U. S. ag agency’s report suggests. The Global Agriculture Information Network (GAIN), operated by the U. S. Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agriculture Service (FAS), noted
Cereals, News

Conservatives want to put Agri-Flex on table

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“…we have to make sure whatever we agree to do is not countervailable.” – Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz wants to meet his provincial colleagues before the end of the year to sound them out on introducing the Agri-Flex proposal from the Canadian Federation of Agriculture. “We’d like to start the discussion
Cereals, Opinion

LETTERS – for Nov. 6, 2008

Drainage maintenance still allowed In response to the article “Licence exemption for minor drainage works removed,” which appeared in the Oct. 30 edition of the Manitoba Co-operator, Keystone Agricultural Producers would like to assure its members that we are working in co-operation with officials from Manitoba Water Stewardship to bring forward the concerns of producers.
Cereals, News

CWB candidates’ debate broadcast

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Single-desk selling versus a dual market dominated a discussion between the five candidates running for Canadian Wheat Board director in District 10 broadcast on Radio Southern Manitoba Oct. 29. Incumbent and single-desk supporter Bill Toews argued the focus should be on single-desk selling versus an open market. “There is no model for a dual market,”
Cereals, News

Wheat board bans freelancer

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Freelance reporter and commentator Harry Siemens was excluded from two Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) news conferences because of his rude behaviour, not because he’s a wheat board critic, says Louise Waldman, the CWB’s manager of media relations and advertising. “He has used news conferences in the past to air his own personal opinion as opposed
Cereals, News

Gerry Ritz happy to be back in ag chair

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“ We’re already getting squeaking noises from the Liberals that they’re going to be tough this time… but at the end of the day I don’t think anybody wants another election in the spring.” – Gerry Ritz Improving Canada’s safety net programs are among reappointed federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz’s top priorities, he said in
Cereals, Crops, News

CWB eyes bigger exports

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The Canadian Wheat Board expects to export about 14 per cent more grain in the year ending July 31, 2009, than initially forecast because of a better-than-expected harvest, its chief operating officer said Oct. 22. The global financial crisis has pressured grain prices as funds and other investors bailed out of commodities, but, overall, world
Cereals, Country Crossroads

CWB and Primo Foods launch national pasta promotion

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“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
Cereals, News

CWB election candidates finalized

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Nineteen farmers are running for five Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) directors’ positions this fall in an election many believe will be the most important since CWB governance was changed in 1998. The mandate and perhaps the very existence of the CWB hangs in the balance as farmers vote in Districts 2, 4, 6, 8 and

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