Manitoba Co-operator reporter Alexis Stockford visits Dan and Fran DeRuyck of Treherne, Man., and discovers how their organic milling operation came to be. The DeRuycks opened their expanded cleaning plant early this year.
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VIDEO: Milling organic grains in Treherne
DeRuycks keep rolling with organic cleaning and milling
Dan and Fran DeRuyck hope to expand their customer base with their upgraded organic grain-cleaning plant, reopened earlier this year
Dan and Fran DeRuyck’s organic grain-cleaning plant is one of the first things a visitor sees when they arrive at Top of the Hill Farm, south of Treherne, Man. The large shed dominates the west side of the yard, bordered by bins which, on any given week, might be filled with anything from wheat, oats,
Funds all-time record short across CBOT grains, oilseeds
Speculators hit a milestone in the Chicago grains and oilseeds market in late April, as they have reached a new level of bearishness across all seven grains and oilseeds futures and options contracts. Combining corn, hard and soft red winter wheat, hard red spring wheat, soybeans, soybean oil and soybean meal, hedge funds and other
Post tucks into British breakfast cereal Weetabix
London/Shanghai/New York | Reuters — Post Holdings is buying leading British breakfast cereal brand Weetabix from China’s Bright Food Group for 1.4 billion pounds (C$2.4 billion), giving the U.S.-focused company a European base on which to build. The combination will help Post’s existing brands, which include Honey Bunches of Oats and Grape-Nuts, to expand overseas,
CFIA frets PRCWRT overstepping mandate
The federal regulator takes issue with keeping references to germplasm sharing in the committee’s operating procedures and has concerns about data confidentiality
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) isn’t comfortable with having germplasm sharing as a prerequisite for participation in certain registration trials. Those comments came from Mark Forham, a senior specialist with CFIA, at the Prairie Recommending Committee for Wheat, Rye and Triticale’s (PRCWRT) annual meeting in Winnipeg Mar. 2. Forhan stressed the PRCWRT’s mandate is
Manitoba Oat Growers’ Association celebrates success and solvency
The books are in the black and Mexican oat consumption is growing fast, annual meeting told
The Manitoba Oat Growers’ Association is in good financial shape and the industry is targeting more sales to a growing Mexican market. That was the word from the group’s latest annual general meeting last week, in conjunction with the CropConnect event. For the year ended July 31, 2016, MOGA revenue over expenses hit $19,013, a
Genetic study may make ancient Inca’s quinoa a grain of the future
The findings could pave the way to breeding out the bitter saponins that must currently be washed off post-harvest
Quinoa, the sacred “mother grain” of the ancient Inca civilization suppressed by Spanish conquistadors, could become an increasingly important food source in the future thanks to genetic secrets revealed in a new study. Scientists on Feb. 7 said they have mapped the genome of quinoa and identified a gene that could be manipulated to get
Fresh off the field
With winter cereal seeding season upon us, here’s the 2016 MCVET winter cereal yield data
In Manitoba, interest in fall rye is increasing, with 112,000 acres seeded the fall of 2015. Although winter wheat acres have declined in recent years, there are still very strong economic and agronomic arguments to be made for including winter wheat in rotation. There are a number of newer winter wheat and fall rye varieties,
Local testing of cereal varieties key to determining productivity
Researchers at the Brandon Research and Development Centre are committed to testing varieties under local conditions
On paper that new wheat or barley variety looks like a winner — but how’s it actually going to perform under real-life conditions? That’s the question federal and provincial crop researchers working at the Brandon Research and Development Centre (BRDC) are hoping to contribute to with a host of ongoing variety trials at their 2,500-acre
VIDEO: Canada’s agricultural markets update for Aug. 3, 2016
D’Arce McMillan, The Western Producer markets editor, monitors trends in the North American and global agricultural markets. Each week he hosts a market video about crops designed to help viewers understand the forces responsible for changes in the trade. The Western Producer is a member of the Glacier FarmMedia network.
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