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Small Crop Offers Good Return

By Allan Dawson September 1, 2011

Last year was one of the toughest years farmers can remember, plagued with drowned-out seeding, weather-induced quality demotions, and sluggish rail service. But the prices for the 2010 crop made it worth the hassle. “At the end of the day we will see one of the highest overall returns in history, including the second-highest wheat

Cereals, Crops, News

CWB Sees More Wheat And Durum This Year

By Rod Nickel September 1, 2011

The Canadian Wheat Board raised its 2011-12 outlook for wheat and barley on Friday, as a warm, dry summer looks to produce bigger harvests than a year ago. Spring floods left an estimated six million acres unplanted across the Prairies, but a hot summer with timely rains has helped crops in Alberta and most of

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S – for Sep. 1, 2011

September 1, 2011

outh Australia ports shipped a record high 6.8 million tonnes of grain from last October through July, Canadian grain handler Viterra Inc. said Aug. 23. Viterra owns 95 per cent of South Australia’s storage and handling network. South Australia farmers reaped their biggest crops on record in 2010-11, which created bottlenecks at times as they

Cereals, Crops

Weeds Could Taint Crop Quality In Storage

August 25, 2011

Despite dry weather conditions for this year’s grain harvest, this spring’s wet weather may influence the quality of harvested grain when it goes into storage. Weeds may be present at harvest because wet spring weather meant many western Canadian grain producers were unable to apply their usual weed controls. If immature weed seeds are not

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CGC Reclassifies CWRW Varieties

By Commodity News Service August 4, 2011

A number of Canada Western Red Winter wheat (CWRW) varieties will be reclassified under the Canada Western General Purpose (CWGP) class, effective August 1, 2011, the Canadian Grain Commission, or CGC, announced in a news release July 15. The varieties in question include; CDC Kestrel; CDC Clair; CDC Harrier; CDC Falcon; and CDC Raptor. The

Cereals, Crops, Opinion

Letters – for Aug. 4, 2011

August 4, 2011

Our government has been clear – every farmer should have a choice to sell their wheat, durum and barley, either individually or through a pooling system. International buyers purchase Canadian wheat and barley because of their high quality, not because the Canadian Wheat Board sells them. Western Canadian canola and pulses have highly successful and

Cereals, Crops, Livestock, Oilseeds

Tight Year-End Stocks Forecast

July 14, 2011

Canada’s Agriculture Department slashed its production forecast for wheat, but raised its canola outlook July 5, while warning that overall crop stocks will drop to a record low this summer. Agriculture Canada cut its harvest estimate for all wheat to 24 million tonnes from June’s forecast of 25.5 million tonnes. Canola production rises to a

Cereals, Crops

Mexico Closes Border To Canadian Seed

By Ron Friesen June 30, 2011

Canada’s canary seed growers are asking Ottawa to intervene in a trade dispute which has shut them out of their largest export market. Mexico has resumed an import ban on canary seed from Canada one year after first imposing it, despite an interim agreement between the two countries to restore normal trade. The Canadian Special

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One More Seeding Option

By Allan Dawson June 23, 2011

The crop insurance deadlines for annual crops have passed, but farmers still have an opportunity to generate a salable crop from those unseeded acres – while controlling weeds and soaking up some of that excess moisture. Extension agronomists and cattle producers are urging crop farmers with unseeded acres to grow greenfeed. With so many pastures

Cereals, Crops, Livestock

CME Wheat Storage Plan May Hinder Feed Switch

May 5, 2011

U.S. livestock producers seeking to switch from high-cost corn to wheat in their feed rations face a hurdle from a controversial plan that makes it more profitable for grain elevators to hold on to their wheat supplies, analysts said. The CME Group’s plan, which aims to narrow the spread between soft red winter wheat futures

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Tag Archives Cereal

Small Crop Offers Good Return

CWB Sees More Wheat And Durum This Year

S – for Sep. 1, 2011

Weeds Could Taint Crop Quality In Storage

CGC Reclassifies CWRW Varieties

Letters – for Aug. 4, 2011

Tight Year-End Stocks Forecast

Mexico Closes Border To Canadian Seed

One More Seeding Option

CME Wheat Storage Plan May Hinder Feed Switch

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