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Dorgan Won’t Run Again For U. S. Senate

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“It is a hard decision to make after 30 years in the Congress, but I believe it is the right time for me to pursue these other interests.” – SEN. BYRON DORGAN The U. S. Senate will lose a vocal opponent of the Canadian Wheat Board’s single marketing desk and vocal supporter of COOL this
Cereals, News

Farmer Protests Loss Of Loading Sites

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Cameron Goff, a farmer and producer car loader from Hanley, Saskatchewan, filed a level-of-service complaint against Canadian National Railway Dec. 11 to protest the railway’s move to delist 53 public producer car-loading sites across Western Canada. Goff, an elected director on the Canadian Wheat Board, said the closings deny western farmers the ability to save
Cereals, Crops

CWB Lowers Wheat And Durum Price Outlooks

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The Canadian Wheat Board has lowered its price projections for most classes of wheat and durum sold during the 2009-10 crop year. The Pool Return Outlooks, released Dec. 17, were left unchanged for feed barley, while malt barley prices were revised higher. Wheat values were steady to down $6 per tonne from November, with most
Cereals, Opinion

CashPlus Controversy Has Little Traction

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Alittle over two years ago, the Canadian Wheat Board came up with a program called CashPlus for malting barley sales. Depending on who you listen to, it’s either been an absolute failure or a tremendous success. CashPlus was initiated at a time when the Conservative government was doing everything in its power to end the
Cereals, News, Oilseeds

CashPlus Additional Payments Attacked And Defended

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Farmers who used the Canadian Wheat Board’s (CWB) CashPlus program to sell malting barley last crop year were shortchanged, according to the Malting Industry Association of Canada (MIAC). However, the board says the allegation doesn’t take all the facts into account and is based on a faulty assumption – that CashPlus barley was sold for
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CWB Launches WeatherFarm

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“This is the future of weather information.” – Ian Whi Te Farmers, whose livelihoods depend on the weather, now have free online access to Canada’s largest private weather network, with more than 700 real-time reporting weather stations across the West. WeatherFarm ( is a collaboration between the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) and WeatherBug, an American-based
Cereals, Grain Markets, Oilseeds

Bigger Crops, Canola Prices Rise

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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 in the week ended Dec. 4 were modestly higher despite weakness in the normally dominant U. S. markets. Canola was supported by strong crusher
Cereals, News

Wells Condemns Corporate Seed Power

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Afew very large seed corporations led by Monsanto have too much power over farmers, according to retiring National Farmers Union (NFU) president Stewart Wells. “With the rapid changes the seed companies are making to the system – seed registration, patent protection, seed contracts and inter-company seed agreements – Monsanto and the seed trade will quickly
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Easter Critical Of Leaders For Not Defending Members

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Liberal Agriculture Critic Wayne Easter says the leadership within Canada’s hog and cattle industries isn’t doing enough to defend producers from inadequate government action. “For the life of me I don’t know why the hog and beef industry isn’t standing up for themselves,” the Prince Edward Island MP told the 40th annual meeting of the
Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets

Are Higher Wheat Prices Real?

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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 Nov. 27 fractionally higher. Gains in the U. S. markets, friendly technical signals and slower farmer selling gave some support

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