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Letters – for Apr. 14, 2011

April 14, 2011

Open letter to Brian Otto, president of Western Barley Growers Association: I dissected the results of the CWB elections and found a very different result and meaning than the outcome your ads proclaim. Upon looking at who originally voted in the first round and then calculating where they went on the second ballot, it became

Cereals, Crops, Oilseeds

It’s Wet Across The West

By Rod Nickel April 14, 2011

Snow is still piled deep on Humphrey Banack’s Camrose, Alberta grain farm at a time when he’s usually tuning up his tractor for planting. The wettest fields before planting since the 1970s look to frustrate Canadian farmers’ zeal to sow their fields on time this spring and cash in on wheat and canola prices that

Cereals, Crops

Changes Coming To CWB’s Select Winter Wheat Program

By Allan Dawson April 7, 2011

The Canadian Wheat Board has made changes to its select winter wheat program in hopes of transporting and marketing the crop more efficiently. In the past, farmers signed Guaranteed Delivery Contracts for select winter wheat throughout the crop year. Now farmers hoping to market the winter wheat they planted last fall as select must register

Cereals, Crops, News, Oilseeds

In Brief… – for Mar. 24, 2011

By Reuters March 24, 2011

Farmer to Farmer:The Grain Growers of Canada has donated $1,000 to help Japanese farmers cope with the after-effects of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. “Farmers in Canada have a long history of helping their neighbours in times of trouble and in this case our neighbours are global,” said executive director Richard Phillips, noting Japan

Cereals, Livestock

Triton Now Registered For Malt Barley

March 24, 2011

DuPont has announced that its Triton C herbicide is now registered for use on both feed and malting barley. DuPont says Triton C controls a unique spectrum of weeds, including 24 different broadleaf and is well known among growers for control of cleavers as well as growing threats such as stork’s-b i l l ,

Cereals, News

South Korea Looks To Expand Overseas Grain Farming

March 10, 2011

South Korea, the world’s fourth-largest grain importer, plans to expand overseas grain production to ensure supply and curb inflation as it faces record-high grain prices. The Finance Ministry said in a statement March 2 that it would form a task force team with the ministries of Agriculture and Foreign Affairs to prepare measures by the

Cereals, Crops

Committee Approves 14 New Varieties

By Laura Rance-Unger March 3, 2011

The federal decision in 2009 to axe kernel visual distinguishability as a requirement for registering wheat varieties in Canada prompted lots of frowns among grain handlers and farmers. But at least one plant breeder is smiling. Anita Brlé-Babel, a winter wheat breeder from the University of Manitoba, received approval from the Prairie Wheat, Rye and

Cereals, Crops, News

Signs Of Trouble In Snow For Russia’s New Crop

By Melissa Akin March 3, 2011

Conditions for Russia’s coming harvest are not as favourable as thought, industry observers said Feb. 26, citing evidence of patchy snow cover and potential lack of supplies for spring sowing. “It doesn’t look as optimistic as it might,” president and chief executive of Russia’s SovEcon think-tank Andrei Sizov told a conference in Altai, a key

Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets

Australia Wheat Quality Slumps In Bittersweet Harvest

By Bruce Hextall January 4, 2011

Up to half of Australia’s current wheat harvest could be downgraded to animal feed or low-grade milling grain, raising concerns for a severe global shortage of higher-quality wheat and marring the nation’s biggest crop in eight years. Crop analysts and farmers told Reuters that up to 50 per cent of the 2010-11 crop would be

Cereals, Crops, Opinion

Freedom Cry No Excuse For Dishonest Deliveries

By Les Mcewan December 16, 2010

Alot can be learned while waiting in line at the elevator. One day I observed elevator employees climbing up on the top of a large semitrailer to probe a load of wheat for samples. For most small elevators, this would be considered unusual since the typical load is sampled as it is dumped into the

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: CME cattle tick lower in thin pre-holiday trade

U.S. grains: Wheat extends gains on short covering, war risk

Prairie forecast: Plenty more chances for snow over Holidays

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