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Briefs continued – for Dec. 3, 2009

Expanded role: Garth Hodges, with Bayer CropScience’s BioScience business based in Calgary, has been appointed global manager, wheat and oilseeds. Hodges’ new role within the global portfolio development signals a new focus for the company in the development of innovative solutions from seed to harvest for broad acre crops including wheat. Overall, it heralds a
Cereals, Opinion

Letters – for Nov. 26, 2009

If it doesn’t pay, don’t produce it Growing wheat for sale to the Canadian Wheat Board, I’ve ended up with $1.86 per bushel. From a total price of $11,626.02, I end up with $6,065.35; they took $5,560.67 for expenses, including weighing inspection ($44.35), elevator cleaning ($1,729.65), the freight adjustment ($1,398.62), rail freight ($2,344.34) and the
Cereals, Opinion

WTO Draft Threatens Rights Of Prairie Farmers

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In every one of the CWB’s major markets, the WTO’s proposed new “bound” tariffs are in fact higher than the tariffs actually being applied. Talks have dragged on so long it’s tempting to think there won’t ever be a new World Trade Organization deal. But bit by bit, the elements of a final agreement are
Cereals, Crops

National Farmers Union Celebrates 40 Years

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“Structure determines process, process determines results.” – ROY ATKINSON If there’s a constant with the National Farmers Union, it’s consistency. Canada’s only national, voluntary, direct-membership general farm organization, which holds its 40th annual meeting in Ottawa this week, sticks to its principles. “The first person who compromises, loses,” Roy Atkinson, the NFU’s first president, said
Cereals, News

Jordan Trade Pact On Table, Colombia On Deck

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Legislation to approve a free trade deal with Jordan was presented to the Commons by Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz Nov. 17, with hopes it will get smoother passage than a bill authorizing a trade deal with Colombia. Two-way merchandise trade between Canada and Jordan totalled $92 million in 2008. The deal would eliminate 90 per
Cereals, Opinion

Ritz Must Stand Up For Farmers’ Marketing Systems At WTO

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The upcoming World Trade Organization (WTO) talks in Geneva are targeting farmers’ marketing agencies – including supply-management and the Canadian Wheat Board single desk. I predict that Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz will return home from the current round of negotiations announcing that these so-called “state trading enterprises” are no longer legal under WTO trade rules
Cereals, News, Oilseeds

Ballots In The Mail For MCGA Election

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“The best thing I could hope for is that as soon as a person gets a ballot they mark it and send it back.” – BILL ROSS Six farmers – four incumbents and two others – are running to fill four directors’ seats around the Manitoba Canola Growers Association’s (MCGA) board table. The incumbents seeking
Cereals, News

Tories Balk At Backing CWB At WTO: NDP

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The federal NDP’s international trade critic says the Conservatives’ refusal to back a motion of support for supply management and the Canadian Wheat Board shows they can’t be trusted to protect either at the WTO. Burnaby-New Westminster MP Peter Julian moved at a Nov. 3 meeting of the House of Commons’ standing committee on international
Cereals, News

Canada, U. S., Mexico Gain As EU Drops Durum Tariff

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The European Union has removed a tariff against all high-quality durum wheat imports that had especially jeopardized shipments from Canada, the United States and Mexico, the Canadian Wheat Board said Nov. 5. The tariff had been in place for about a month, the CWB said. The EU removed the tariff after the wheat board and
Cereals, News

Canada Wheat Board To Export Less Grain This Season

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The Canadian Wheat Board plans to export nine per cent less grain in the year ending July 31, 2010, its chief operating officer said Oct. 30, as poor early growing season weather made for smaller wheat and barley crops than a year ago. The crops recovered from a potentially disastrous start with record-hot September weather

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