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Demand A Costing Review Of Railway Grain Transportation

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Disbelief. Followed by frustration and, we hope, the desire to do something about it. That is response many western grain farmers are likely to feel upon receiving news that they may have greatly overpaid the railway companies to ship their product. Railway earnings for handling grain are the focus of a new study by respected
Cereals, Crops

Start Planning For Your Winter Wheat Spring Assessment

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Aproper spring assessment is an important part of successful winter wheat production. And as the weather heats up, now’s the time to start putting your assessment plans into motion. Assessing the crop condition early is difficult as brown leaves do not necessarily denote winterkill and green leaves are not a guarantee of winter survival. The
Cereals, Crops, News, Oilseeds

Can It Be Too Early?

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After a couple of late springs, western Canadian farmers are poised to start seeding early thanks to above-normal temperatures that star ted in March. Earlier-seeded crops usually yield better and with farmers planting more acres, many are anxious to get rolling. But before Manitoba farmers hit the fields, they need to think about the potential
Cereals, Crops, Livestock

Turkey Board Sees No Wheat Imports This Year

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Turkey’s state grain board TMO does not expect to import wheat or barley this year, but will export half a million tonnes before the start of the next harvest season in June. TMO chairman Mesut Kose told Reuters in an interview on March 23 that the board has already exported 2.3 million tonnes of grain
Cereals, Crops

EU Grain Sale For Aid Will Distort Market

AEuropean Union plan to sell 1.5 million tonnes of surplus grain in the coming months to help the bloc’s poor will weaken feed prices and lead to more offers for EU intervention subsidies, member states warned. The EU in November agreed to sell cereals from its grain mountain to support the needy. Unusually, the sale
Cereals, Crops

Better-Quality Winter Wheat Needs To Compete

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There’s a lot of medium-to low-quality wheat in the world, making it one of the most price competitive markets, according to Graham Worden, the Canadian Wheat Board’s (CWB) senior manager of technical services. Competitors include India, Russia and Ukraine and the United States produces millions of tonnes of good-quality milling winter wheat. “If we can’t
Cereals, Crops, News

Algeria’s Grain Output Drive Starts To Pay Off

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Algeria is moving to slash grain imports in coming years as the government enacts urgent reforms to stop farm yields tumbling in times of drought. The authorities were shocked into action in 2008 when the national grain harvest slumped to 2.1 million tonnes and the government scrambled for foreign cereals to feed the population of
Cereals, Crops

Winter Cereals Manitoba Focused On Research

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Winter Cereals Manitoba (WCM) has money in the bank and the farmer-funded organization knows exactly where it’s going: research. Two projects are already planned, but WCM chair and Birtle-area farmer Garth Butcher told the organization’s annual meeting here March 10 he wants to hear members’ priorities. WCM collected 50 cents a tonne from around 2,000
Cereals, Crops, News

EU Grain Farmers Brace For Life Without Safety Net

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European grain farmers can expect volatile prices after Brussels partially removes a safety net in May, and cannot readily switch to other crops and will have to deal with market forces as best they can. As part of a drive towards a free market, from May 31 the European Union will suspend automatic “intervention,” the
Cereals, Crops

Pick Corn Hybrids That Will Mature Here In A Normal Year

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A high-yielding corn crop isn’t worth much if it doesn’t mature before the first killing fall frost. That’s why days to maturity should be the first criterion when picking a hybrid, followed closely by potential yield, according to Pam de Rocquigny, a feed grains specialist with Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives. “Yield is what

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