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‘We didn’t hear any Wheat Grower concerns about bread price last year when wheat prices were pushing $15 per bushel.’ – John Morriss.
Op/Ed, Opinion

Opinion: Fighting for low prices

One bushel of barley can make 500 bottles of beer, but the Wheat Growers are asking for help to make it cheaper

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Glacier FarmMedia – It used to be that if you wanted to raise a farmer’s blood pressure, you only had to suggest that an increase in bread prices was due to a change in the price of wheat. If you were around then, you’ll remember that food prices had risen so far that the government
Rapid Visco Analyzers are just one small step towards the longed-for ‘black box’ for grain testing.
Cereals, News

Falling number, objective grain-grading debate not new

The grain industry explored machine testing more than a decade ago

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Calls for “objective” grain grading on the elevator driveway, especially for falling number, have been around for years, ebbing and flowing with the quality of the wheat crop. These days it’s the Alberta Grain Commission and Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association (WCWGA) advocating for the change. They say since grain companies sell wheat to customers
Cereals, News

Complaints about Canadian grading of U.S. wheat justified: Gifford

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American complaints that Canadian regulations unfairly block American wheat from entering Canadian elevators are justified, says Mike Gifford, Canada’s former chief agricultural trade negotiator. “This is a classic issue of where the optics are awful,” Gifford told the 22nd annual Fields on Wheels conference in Winnipeg Dec. 15. “It seems to me it is an
Randy Dennis (l), the former chief grain inspector for Canada, demonstrates the ins and outs of grain grading at a workshop. The Canadian Grain Commission is reviewing the grading system. While some groups want to switch to instrument-measured specifications, others warn that could create problems.
Crops, News

Grain commission launches major grain grading system review

Views vary within the grain industry about what should stay, what should 
go and who’ll pay any extra costs

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The Canadian Grain Commission (CGC) is conducting a major review of grain grading. That’s prompting calls by some for specifications to replace grades, while others say they’ll consider changes if they don’t undermine the current system or cost too much. Read more: Column roils wheat grading controversy Read more: Grading system needed to ensure proper compensation
grain elevator
News

Report proposes further deregulation of grain freight rates

The CTA review panel has concluded the railways will provide 
better service if the revenue cap is removed

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Initial reaction to the Canadian Transportation Act review report is that it falls far short of fixing what’s broke with the grain transportation system. Farmers are worried about recommendations to phase out the Maximum Revenue Entitlement (MRE) over seven years and shorten interswitching access. But they welcome proposals to improve the MRE in the interim,
Dave Hatcher
Cereals, News

New interim wheat class coming for Faller, Prosper, Elgin-ND

Market potential will be studied before its made permanent. In the meantime the CGC will strengthen the quality specifications for the CWRS and CPSR classes

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Changes are coming to Western Canada’s milling wheat classes along with some additional study and more industry feedback, the Canadian Grain Commission (CGC) announced May 8. After consulting the grain sector earlier this year the CGC has decided to introduce a new interim milling wheat class to take effect Aug. 1 and continue until at
CWB building
National news

Mixed reaction to sale details: some like it not, some like it sold

Opponents say the lack of farmer control and foreign ownership is offensive while others are glad the deal is done

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The Friends of the Canadian Wheat Board (FCWB) and National Farmers Union and federal NDP oppose the sale. “This was just another step in the largest transfer of wealth away from farmers in the history of this country,” said FCWB chair Stewart Wells who farms at Swift Current, Sask., and served as an elected wheat
Gerry Ritz, Canadian Agriculture MInister
Crops, National news

Strong support as Agricultural Growth Act becomes law

The main dissenter is the National Farmers Union. KAP wants farmers to be consulted on the regulations

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There was applause here when plant breeders, seed companies and farmers at the Prairie Recommending Committee for Wheat, Rye and Triticale heard the Agricultural Growth Act with its stronger intellectual property rights was about to receive royal assent. Immediately following the bill becoming law last week, Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz tabled a treaty in Parliament
grain cars at a grain elevator terminal
Cereals, National news

Feds extend railway grain-shipping targets

Most of the industry supports the move, but millers fear it will lead to domestic changes

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Ottawa’s last-minute decision to continue setting grain-shipping targets for the railways until March 28, 2015 has the support of western elevator companies and most farm groups, but not Canadian millers. “It’s good news that they are keeping the spotlight on grain transportation for this winter period,” Wade Sobkowich, executive director of the Western Grain Elevator
paterson grain terminal sign
Cereals, Crops, National news

Farmers, grain companies want federal government to continue railway shipping targets

Ritz’s office says he and the transport minister haven’t made a decision yet

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Farm groups and grain companies said last week their grain transportation woes are far from over as the federal government considers whether to keep or lift minimum movement orders for the railways. In an emailed statement Oct. 31, Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz’s office appeared to backtrack from a news story earlier in the week saying

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