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Rail Service Review Enters Next Phase

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“Either we have adequate competition or, where we don’t have adequate competition… we need effective legislation to simulate this balance.” – WADE SOBKOWICH Farm groups, grain companies and railway shippers are pleased a federal government review of railway service has taken another step forward. Rob Merrifield, minister of state for transport announced Sept. 23 the
Cereals, Crops, Opinion

Letters – for Oct. 1, 2009

MWI intervened to save home economics I read with interest, the item, “Home economics heads to the second century at U of M.” (Pg. 12, Sept. 17, 2009) Members of Manitoba Women’s Institute, an organization that has from the start been closely connected with the University of Manitoba and home economics, will also celebrate its
Cereals, Crops

CWB Dials Back PROs For 2009-10

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Healthy wheat harvests and already-large supplies of barley have added to pressure on the Canadian Wheat Board’s September pool return outlooks (PROs) for 2009-10. Compared to August levels, the new PROs released Sept. 24 find wheat PROs ranging from down $13 to up $3 per tonne, while malting and feed barley values dropped by $12
Cereals, Grain Markets, Oilseeds

Big Oats, Flax Supply Pressure Markets

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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 oilseed prices at ICE Futures Canada in Winnipeg closed the week ended Sept. 18 mixed, with canola lower. Canola was pressured down by the advancing harvest, the firm Canadian dollar, bearish technical signals and ideas the canola
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Canada Defends Wheat Board Monopoly At WTO

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Canada’s Conservative government is defending the Canadi an Wheat Board’s grain-marketing monopoly at World Trade Organization talks, even though it has long said it wants to scrap it, CWB chairman Larry Hill said Sept. 17. “We had good assurance from the Government of Canada that farmers’ (ability to) adhere to the single desk will be
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Low Vomitoxin In Canadian Wheat

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Canada’s wheat crop has only low levels of the toxin that has caused Brazil to impose strict testing on United States wheat shipments, the Canadian Wheat Board said Sept. 19. Brazil sanitary officials said Sept. 18 they will test incoming U. S. wheat shipments for traces of vomitoxin, a toxin that can sicken humans and
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Heat Wave Helps Wheat, Barley Crops

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Warm, late-summer weather has Canadian farmers reaping bigger and better harvests than they expected in midsummer, when slow growth and bad weather suggested a potential crop disaster. Farmers now look to escape a year of drought, flooding and cool temperatures across the Prairies with slightly below-average-size crops of wheat and barley and average quality, said
Cereals, Crops

Hopper Cars Get An Upgrade

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The Canadian Wheat Board will use government-backed financing to extend the life of its fleet of hopper-bottom grain cars to 2030. The CWB said Sept. 19 that the planned upgrades to 3,411 cars will extend the fleet’s service time by 16 years. “Leasing hopper cars to the railways generates revenue for farmers,” CWB CEO Ian
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Ottawa Responds To Producer Car Shippers

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“If you don’t have sidings, you effectively sterilize the right to load producer cars.” – terry boehm The Canadian National Railway (CN) should work with farmers before abandoning sidings used to load producer cars, says Rob Merrifield, Minister of state for transport. “The minister is disappointed that CN is only using the bare minimum of
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Producer Cars Have Been A Farmer Right Since 1902

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Legislation giving farmers the right to load their own grain into rail cars was introduced in May 1902 as an amendment to the Manitoba Grain Act of 1900, after it became apparent elevator companies and the railways conspired to prevent farmers loading cars themselves. The amendment introduced the “Car Order Book” – allocating cars on

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