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New CWB offers higher initial payments

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff August 10, 2012

The government-backed CWB has upped the ante in the new market environment by offering higher initial payments on its Early Delivery Pool and Harvest Pool. The CWB released information on its 2012-13 initial payments July 30, two days before the launch of the open market in Western Canada. The payments apply to wheat, durum and

Cereals, News, Opinion

Déjà vu all over again?

By Laura Rance-Unger August 10, 2012

You could say a lot about the federal government’s process for ending the Canadian Wheat Board’s single-desk monopoly this week, and many have. But you have to admit Gerry Ritz’s timing was impeccable. Or rather, he lucked out. With commodity prices soaring due to the fiercest drought to grip the U.S. in more than half

Cereals, News

Change in command at Ag Canada

By Alex Binkley August 10, 2012

Agriculture Canada will be getting a new deputy minister in September when 28-year veteran Suzanne Vinet takes over from John Knubley. Vinet, currently president of the Economic Development Agency of Canada, started at Ag Canada in 1984 and worked her way up to assistant deputy minister for trade policy before leaving in 2007 for senior

Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets, News

Single-desk supporters appeal to Supreme Court

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff August 10, 2012

The group Friends of the Canadian Wheat Board is seeking leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada regarding a Federal Court of Appeal ruling overturning a Dec. 6, 2011 ruling by Federal Justice Campbell. It will be joined in its bid to challenge the federal government’s decision to end the CWB’s single desk

Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets, News, Oilseeds

CWB monopoly ends,open market begins

By Allan Dawson August 10, 2012

As the fluffy, golden-awned heads of barley flowed seamlessly into Ron Sabourin’s combine last week, he was more focused on getting this year’s crop in the bin than he was with the dawn of a new marketing era in Western Canada. Sabourin started pricing out this year’s wheat last December and doesn’t plan to use

Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets, Oilseeds

Hot U.S. temperatures make for hot markets

By Dwayne Klassen July 30, 2012

Canola futures on the ICE Canada platform continued their upward trek during the week ended July 20 with the weather concerns in the U.S. Soybean Belt providing much of the price strength. The gains in canola ranged from $20 to $24 per tonne. The new long-range weather outlooks (as of July 20) for the main

Cereals, News, Opinion

July 30, 2012

Province active in Growing Forward discussions A letter (“Where is the vision?” July 5) from the PC member from Midland, Blaine Pedersen, failed to provide Manitobans and producers in our province with helpful information when it comes to Growing Forward 2. Growing Forward is often referred to as the single most important Agricultural Policy Framework

Cereals, Dairy cattle, Opinion

The buttermilk of the issue

By Laura Rance-Unger July 20, 2012

There are few things more refreshing on a hot summer’s day than a tall glass of cold buttermilk. It has a bracing sourness that challenges the senses, but with none of the bitter aftertaste of milk that has gone off before its due date. It is in this category we place the recent efforts of

Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets, News, Oilseeds

U.S. weather rally buries bearish acreage reports

By Phil Franz-Warkentin July 12, 2012

Parts of Western Canada may have seen some heavy rain during the week ended June 29, but it was the lack of moisture south of the border that was behind most of the sharp gains in North American grains and oilseeds during the week. The majority of the U.S. Midwest’s corn- and soybean-growing regions could

Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets, News

New CWB focuses on Western Canada

By Allan Dawson July 12, 2012

But it can now extend its reach Starting Aug. 1 the new CWB will be able to buy and sell grain of any type from anywhere in Canada, but its immediate focus is its traditional territory — Western Canada. “We have no immediate plans to do business in other parts of Canada,” CWB spokesperson Maureen

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: CME cattle futures end lower, hogs mostly lower

CFIA adds controls for imports of Spanish feed ingredients after African swine fever outbreak

FCC forecasts rocky financial year, points to waning confidence, vCOOL, interest rates

Tag Archives Canadian Wheat Board

New CWB offers higher initial payments

Déjà vu all over again?

Change in command at Ag Canada

Single-desk supporters appeal to Supreme Court

CWB monopoly ends,open market begins

Hot U.S. temperatures make for hot markets

The buttermilk of the issue

U.S. weather rally buries bearish acreage reports

New CWB focuses on Western Canada

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