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Cereals, Crops

Global Barley Production To Decline

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Global barley production is expected to decline in 2010-11, although stocks will remain more than sufficient to meet the demand, said a Canadian Wheat Board analyst in a presentation at the annual CWB Grain World conference in Winnipeg, Feb. 22. The early price projections from the CWB are for steady to slightly lower barley values
Cereals, News

Canada, U. S., Mexico Gain As EU Drops Durum Tariff

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The European Union has removed a tariff against all high-quality durum wheat imports that had especially jeopardized shipments from Canada, the United States and Mexico, the Canadian Wheat Board said Nov. 5. The tariff had been in place for about a month, the CWB said. The EU removed the tariff after the wheat board and
Cereals, News

Say Thank You To The “Spaghetti Farmers”

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The CWB has launched a national contest to celebrate World Pasta Day on October 25, encouraging children to send a big thank you to Prairie “spaghetti farmers” for producing the main ingredient in pasta, an unfailing kids’ favourite. “Pasta is big business for farmers in Western Canada, where we produce more durum wheat than anywhere
Cereals, Crops, Oilseeds

StatsCan Predicts Smaller Prairie Crop

Canadian farmers will harvest 17.5 per cent less wheat and 24.5 per cent less canola, Statistics Canada said Aug. 21 in its first estimate of 2009 crop production. It forecast the all-wheat crop at 23.61 million tonnes, a steep drop from last year’s bountiful harvest, but more than the trade had expected. Statistics Canada expects
Cereals, News

Briefs continued – for Aug. 20, 2009

More wheat: The U. S. Agriculture Department bumped up its forecast for the world wheat crop this month, thanks to strong crops in India, the United States, China, Ukraine and most of Europe, but said drought has trimmed prospects for Russia, Argentina and Canada. World wheat production for 2009-10 was forecast at 659.29 million tonnes,
Cereals, Opinion

Rushing Madly Off In All Directions

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When mad cow disease hit Western Canada in May, 2003, farmers got a lesson in basic economics. The lesson wasn’t so much that prices went down in Canada. Take away the market for something like 50 per cent of the cattle produced in Canada, and prices will take a gut-wrenching tumble. That was a given.
Beef cattle, Cereals, Hogs, News

Canada Meat, Grain Sectors Eye EU Trade

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Canada’s agriculture industry is eyeing free trade talks with the European Union as a rare chance to open a big high-income market. But for the beef sector, a major production shift may also be at stake. The Canadian beef industry has taken hits in recent years from low prices and prohibitive U. S. food-labelling laws,
Cereals, News

MP Wrong About CWB Contingency Fund

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News that Prairie farmers earned a record $7.2 billion through the Canadian Wheat Board last year was buried last week beneath allegations that the board had mismanaged the Producer Payments Options program (PPO). Conservative MP David Anderson charged the board lost $130 million of farmers’ money, an allegation CWB chair Larry Hill says is untrue
Opinion

Ballot blunders disturbing

CWB chairman Larry Hill’s letter in the Nov. 13 Manitoba Co-operator clearly stated that “if you grew any of the seven major grains and oilseeds in 2007 or 2008, you have a voice” (in the election). I read this on Nov. 18, 2008, the same day that I phoned Meyers, Norris and Penny to ask
Cereals, News

Election changes little on farm scene

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The Conservative win in the Oct. 14 election brought little change to the farm scene in Parliament. Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz was re-elected with a comfortable margin in his western Saskatchewan riding, despite the national flap over his “cold cuts” comments. Ritz’s main critics, Liberal Wayne Easter and the NDP’s Alex Atamanenko, also won in

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