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Time to move past divisive wheat-marketing debate

By Allan Dawson January 7, 2013

Richard Gray won’t miss the fighting amongst western Canadian farmers over the Canadian Wheat Board. The University of Saskatchewan agricultural economist says the long, divisive debate distracted farmers from tackling even more financially important issues such as crop research. Grain marketing has been a touchy issue. A farmer who declined to be interviewed likened it

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Seven market movers to watch in 2013

By Phil Franz-Warkentin January 5, 2013

The start of a new year is a time of reflection and also a time of looking forward. As history has a habit of repeating itself, what were the big factors that moved the grains and oilseeds in 2012? And what might we expect this new calendar year? Marketing As far as Western Canada was

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John Morriss awarded Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal

By Allan Dawson January 4, 2013

Veteran farm journalist John Morriss has been awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for his contribution to Canada’s agricultural industry. Morriss, who began his journalism career in 1975 with Grainews, is associate publisher and editorial director of Farm Business Communications, which publishes the Manitoba Co-operator as well as other respected journals including Grainews,

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The Jacksons

By Rollin Penner January 4, 2013

That’s it for the Mayans then I guess,” said Andrew Jackson resignedly folding his newspaper and laying it on the table next to his plate. “December 21st of 2012 came and went and the only thing that ended was the Mayan calendar.” Rose looked up from her own reading. “At least the doomsday prophets will

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Railway revenues rekindle costing review calls

By Allan Dawson January 4, 2013

Canada’s two major railways once again tipped over the statutory cap revenues for shipping grain during the 2011-12 crop year — costing farmers an extra two cents per tonne. “It underscores again the need for a costing review to parallel the (rail) service review,” Bladworth Sask., farmer and agricultural economist Ian McCreary said in an

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Grain Growers funded to promote grain sales

By Allan Dawson December 5, 2012

Fifty thousand dollars in federal government money is going to the Grain Growers of Canada to promote Canadian grain, which will include sending farmers on overseas trade missions. It’s part of $208,000 David Anderson, parliamentary secretary for the Canadian Wheat Board, announced here Nov. 21 during the annual Grain Industry Symposium organized by the Canada

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Post-CWB monopoly system receives record grain volume Q1

By Allan Dawson November 30, 2012

Concerns that Canada’s grain pipeline would initially struggle in the wake of ending the Canadian Wheat Board’s monopoly have proven groundless. A record 14 million tonnes of grain were delivered to the Canadian grain-handling system during the first 15 weeks of the crop year, Cargill Canada president Len Penner told the Grain Industry Symposium here

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Canada’s grain system world’s best

By Allan Dawson November 30, 2012

For years Canada’s grain industry engaged in self-flagellation, condemning the grain-handling and transportation system as inefficient. Not anymore. “We have arguably the world’s most efficient handling network,” Don Solman, Richardson’s vice-president of finance and chief financial officer told the Grain Industry Symposium Nov. 21. “Back in the 1990s, basically the network was rebuilt with large

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CWB looks to cash market to attract more wheat

By Terryn Shiells November 30, 2012

Sign-up deadlines for CWB’s pool programs have come and gone, but the company is still looking for more grain. “We’ve been able to get some really good sales for the tonnes that we have now, and movement has been really good,” said Gord Flaten, CWB’s vice-president of grain procurement. “So looking to the rest of

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Big, early and high-quality harvest eases transition to post-single-desk era

By Allan Dawson November 29, 2012

Alarge and high-quality crop along with an early harvest was just what the doctor ordered to ease the transition to the post-single-desk era, says the CWB’s chief operating officer. “I can’t imagine what we’d all be going through… if we were talking about a crop that was predominantly (No.) 3 red (spring wheat) with falling

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Time to move past divisive wheat-marketing debate

Seven market movers to watch in 2013

John Morriss awarded Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal

The Jacksons

Railway revenues rekindle costing review calls

Grain Growers funded to promote grain sales

Post-CWB monopoly system receives record grain volume Q1

Canada’s grain system world’s best

CWB looks to cash market to attract more wheat

Big, early and high-quality harvest eases transition to post-single-desk era

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