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CWB Boosts Churchill Volumes

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The Canadian Wheat Board this year shipped its second-highest volume of wheat in 32 years through the Port of Churchill, Manitoba, the grain marketer said Oct. 29. The board shipped 529,000 tonnes of wheat and durum through the northern Canadian port, up from 425,000 tonnes a year earlier, and the second-highest tonnage since 1977. The
Cereals, News

Briefs Continued – for Oct. 29, 2009

Drive away hunger: Farm Credit Canada’s (FCC) Drive Away Hunger program finished the last leg of its annual five-week journey on Oct. 16, with 1,627,617 pounds of food raised for food banks nationwide. Six tractor tours took place in Alberta, New Brunswick, Ontario, Quebec, Saskatchewan and Regina (where FCC’s corporate office is located) from October
Cereals, News

Stewart Wells Not Running For NFU President

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“I think what a lot of people have come to understand is that they can count on the NFU to watch farmers’ bottom lines.” – STEWART WELLS The National Farmers Union (NFU) is like Cassandra of Greek mythology – it predicts the future, but nobody believes it, according to Stewart Wells, who after eight years
Cereals, Crops

Canada Reaps Average Wheat Crop

Western Canadian farmers are struggling to finish their latest harvest in several years, with 10 per cent of the spring wheat crop lying in fields too wet to combine, a Canadian Wheat Board official said Oct. 20. The wet, cold October has been a cruel ending to an unpredictable growing season, especially for farmers in
Cereals, Weather

Some Unique Weather Instruments

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This gauge is mechanical in nature, as it uses the weight of the collected rain to move a dial which shows how much rain has fallen. In the last issue we looked at the various home weather station options available, and while I didn’t recommend any particular weather station in that article, I have received
Cereals, News

White Flag Or Prudent Planning?

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A former chair of the Canadian Wheat Board says work should begin now on a compensation package for farmers if a World Trade Organization (WTO) agreement kills the board. Ken Ritter says he is convinced there will be a WTO agreement given most nations’ desire to stimulate the world economy. The current WTO proposal singles
Cereals, News

CFA Gets Silent Treatment On Internal Trade Deal

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The Canadian Federation of Agriculture’s president wants some transparency from the federal and provincial ministers involved in implementing an internal Canadian trade agreement. First drafted in the mid-1990s as a way to break down protectionist and job mobility barriers among the provinces, the agreement is supposedly moving into the agriculture field during meetings in Yellowknife
Cereals, Country Crossroads

Partly Barley, Partly Pulse

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Can delicious and nutritious pasta get any better? Technical specialists at the Canadian International Grains Institute (CIGI) say “yes” and they’re working on the recipe to prove it. By substituting a portion of the traditional durum semolina with barley or pulse flour, they’ve come up with a version of spaghetti that’s higher in fibre without
Cereals, Opinion

The Wheat Board — Or Not

JOHN MORRISS EDITORIAL DIRECTOR The standard explanation in news reports is that AWB Ltd., formerly the Australian Wheat Board, last year lost its export monopoly due to fallout from AWB officials paying nearly $300 million in bribes to Saddam Hussein’s government as part of the “Oil-for-Food Scandal.” If so, it seems ironic that one of

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