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Marketing Board Or Private Club?

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Debate and controversy are nothing new to orderly marketing. Whether it is supply management, as in the case of dairy or poultry, or single-desk selling, as in the case of the Canadian Wheat Board, there is a legitimate discussion over whether the public good these systems generate outweigh their costs to personal freedom. There are
Cereals, Crops, Oilseeds, Opinion

Analysts Weigh In With New-Crop Prices Forecasts

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It’s refreshing to see an analyst come up with actual price forecasts, rather than just dancing around all the issues. What numbers should a producer pencil in for crop prices in the new crop year? That was the multibillion-dollar question for the thousands of producers attending Crop Production Week and the Western Canadian Crop Production
Cereals, Crops, Oilseeds

Mild Weather Raises Stored Crop Risk

Unusually mild temperatures in Western Canada are threatening to damage stored crops, potentially downgrading quality and reducing supply for exports, a canola industry official said Jan. 15. Canola crushers are noticing shipments of canola with mould and other heat damage, said Jim Bessel, a senior agronomy specialist with the Canola Council of Canada. “Because of
Cereals, Crops

World’s Farmers To Grow Less Wheat In 2010

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Farmers will produce the world’s smallest wheat crop in three years in 2010 as big global supplies weigh down prices and steer more acres to other crops, the Canadian Wheat Board said Jan. 15. In its first market outlook of 2010, the board, one of the world’s biggest grain marketers, also said the outlook for
Cereals, News

El Niño Rises, Winter To Get Milder

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The current winter deep freeze on the Prairies could soon turn balmy because of El Nińo, according to a Canadian Wheat Board weather analyst. A rising El Nińo phenomenon – one of the strongest ever – could bring warmer winter weather to Western Canada, possibly followed by below-normal temperatures and above-normal precipitation in spring, said
Cereals, News

Whither The Prairie Climate?

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“The evidence is pretty clear to my mind that global warming is underway, and greenhouse gas emissions are causing some changes in the climate.” – BRUCE BURNETT, CWB Adapting to climate change will be tough, that’s for sure. It might be easier if Prairie farmers knew exactly what to plan for, but one thing is
Cereals, News

Wheat Growers’ Group Formed To Protest CWB

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“There was absolutely no reason to have faith in the wheat board.” – WALLY NELSON The way Wally Nelson tells it, it all began in early December 1969 when a farmer named John Wood came to his John Deere dealership to apologize for not being able to pay his bill. There’d been a decent crop
Cereals, News

FCWB Defends Wheat Board Against Ottawa In Court

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“We’re saying a minister should not be able to change or override the regulations and the voting procedures of the Canadian Wheat Board just through a simple letter of instruction and a secret one at that.” – STEWART WELLS Allegations that Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz exceeded his authority by instructing the Canadian Wheat Board to
Cereals, Crops

CWB Sees Exports At 10-Year High

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“The recession doesn’t have a very big impact on the grain trade generally.” GORD FLATEN The Canadian Wheat Board expects to export more grain from the 2009-10 crop year than it has in 10 years, after record-warm September weather led to high crop quality and yields, the CWB said Jan. 6. The CWB raised its
Cereals, Crops

CGC Bill Among Casualties Of Prorogue

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Controversial legislation to overhaul the Canadian Grain Commission was among the legislation wiped out by Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s decision to prorogue the current session of Parliament. The bill faced a bumpy ride through Parliament from the opposition parties, even if Harper does fill Senate vacancies with Conservative supporters. Introduced last spring, the bill was

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