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Federal Court Dismisses CWB Voter List Challenge

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff February 4, 2010

“By taking this to court the Friends attempted to prove that this was not just a dirty trick, but it was an illegal dirty trick.” – STEWART WELLS AFederal Court judge has dismissed a farmer group’s call for a judicial review of changes in how the voters’ list is drafted for Canadian Wheat Board director

Cereals, Opinion

Letters – for Feb. 4, 2010

February 4, 2010

Government argument insulting I spent Wednesday, Jan. 20 sitting in Federal Court in Winnipeg as a farmer-applicant on behalf of the Friends of the Canadian Wheat Board. Our case is about the voter manipulation by the federal government in 2008 in our farmer-funded Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) director elections. Instead of using the majority of

Cereals, Dairy cattle, Livestock, News, Oilseeds

New CAFTA Head Wants To Get Along

By Alex Binkley February 4, 2010

“I’m positive that with some discussion, we get a better understanding of each other. It works around here.” – STAN EBY Stan Eby hopes to replace the long-standing tensions between export-oriented farm groups and the supply-managed sector with a more positive relationship that respects the goals of both sides. Eby, a longtime Ontario cattle producer,

Cereals, Crops

Canada Picks Up Wheat Exports To Africa From AWB

By Rod Nickel February 4, 2010

The Canadian Wheat Board has picked up some wheat export sales to Africa from AWB Ltd., because the former Australian Wheat Board can no longer guarantee supply, CWB chief executive Ian White said Jan. 28. “Some customers in Africa who used to get 100 per cent of their supply from the Australian Wheat Board have

Cereals, News

CWB Lowers Price Outlooks

By Resource News International February 4, 2010

The Canadian Wheat Board has lowered its price projections for most classes of wheat and durum sold during the 2009-10 (Aug./July) crop year. The Pool Return Outlooks, released January 28, were left unchanged for barley. Wheat values were steady to down $5 per tonne from December, with most classes of wheat seeing declines. The CWB

Cereals, Crops, Oilseeds, Pulses

Pulse Crops A Popular Option

By Rod Nickel January 28, 2010

Canadian farmers will devote more acres this year to pulse crops such as lentils, because big global supplies of wheat have hit prospects for the country’s biggest crop while uncertainty overhangs canola. There’s more uncertainty than usual this year, because a late harvest kept many farmers from preparing land for the new crop, said Ken

Cereals, Crops, News

Markets Headed Sideways For Now

By Laura Rance-Unger January 28, 2010

Bad weather – preferably elsewhere – is Prairie farmers’ best bet for a wheat market rally this year, the Canadian Wheat Board’s director of weather and crop surveillance unit told farmers attending Manitoba Ag Days Jan. 20. “We’re going to need a weather event in one of those big six (exporting) countries to turn the

Cereals, News

Supreme Court Upholds Wheat Board Gag Order

By Ron Friesen January 28, 2010

“We think there’s an important principle of farmer control at stake.” – LARRY HILL, CWB The Canadian Wheat Board has lost its final effort to overturn a federally imposed gag order on promoting its sales monopoly. The Supreme Court of Canada has refused to hear a CWB appeal against a lower court ruling to leave

Cereals, Grain Markets, Oilseeds

Wheat Likely To See Some Strength Long Term

By Don Bousquet January 28, 2010

For three-times-daily market reports from Don Bousquet and RNI, visit “ICE Futures Canada updates” at www.manitobacooperator.ca Grain and oi l s e e d prices at ICE Futures Canada in Winnipeg closed the week ended Jan. 22 mixed, with canola higher and Western barley lower. Canola was supported by steady demand, as exports continue to

Cereals, Crops, Oilseeds

Grain Bags Need Further Study

By Laura Rance-Unger January 28, 2010

Grain bags, also known as silo bags or grain sausages, may seem like a quick-and-easy solution to the problem of where to put that bin buster of a crop. But a University of Manitoba grain storage researcher had some cautionary words about a product that has seen precious little study when he spoke to farmers

Daily Network News

Southern California honeybees show resistance to varroa mites

Pulse Weekly: SaskPulse optimistic despite input, crop price concerns

Canadian aquaculture should be classed as agriculture, industry groups say

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