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CWB Expects Higher Returns For Canola, Wheat And Durum

By GFM Network News, MarketsFarm Team November 6, 2014

CNS – CWB, formerly known as the Canadian Wheat Board, has raised Pool Return Outlooks (PROs) for durum, wheat and canola in its latest report. They noted it is a special mid-term outlook, due to market changes since the previous report released on October 23. PROs were higher for all three crops due to the weaker

Crops, Markets

CWB takes pass on FNA’s proposal

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News October 27, 2014

Ag input buying group Farmers of North America (FNA) says its proposal to buy the grain firm formerly known as the Canadian Wheat Board has been rebuffed. Saskatoon-based FNA said Monday its proposal — which called for CWB’s assets to become part of an farmer-owned grain handling and fertilizer manufacturing and marketing organization dubbed Genesis

Cereals, Opinion

Restless farmers and the Prairie grain business

What goes around…

By John Morriss October 27, 2014

While the percentage of grain buyers in heaven may only be slightly higher than that for railroaders, the stories that grandpa (or now great-grandpa) told about being shafted by the grain companies early in the last century may have been a trifle exaggerated. Then, as now, there was a bit of a “shoot the messenger”

AgraCity CFO Derek Penner (centre, with Laurentian Bank Securities vice-president Ty Wirvin (l) and director of investment banking Kevin Hooke) is gauging farmers’ appetite for investment in a new grain handling and fertilizer partnership, ideally by taking control of CWB. (Dave Bedard photo)

Crops, Markets

Clock ticking on FNA-led group’s proposed play for CWB

By GFM Network News, Lisa Guenther October 16, 2014

Farmers of North America (FNA) executives are pleading for more time from the federal government to help farmers hammer out a deal to buy the former Canadian Wheat Board. FNA has created a new organization, Genesis Grain and Fertilizer LP, to build a farmer-owned grain handling and fertilizer sales and distribution company. As of Tuesday,

Cereals, National news

Opposition MPs decry decision to not make CWB’s 2012-13 annual report public

Wheat board critics, including the government, accused it of secrecy, but now  Gerry Ritz has deemed CWB’s activities are too commercially sensitive to release

By Allan Dawson October 3, 2014

Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz’s decision to keep CWB’s 2012-13 annual report from the public is being criticized by opposition members of Parliament. Farmers and taxpayers have a right to see CWB’s financial statements Liberal MP Ralph Goodale and NDP Agriculture Critic Malcolm Allen said in separate interviews last week. “It should be remembered whatever revenue

National news

CWB 2012-13 annual report: notes

By Allan Dawson, Manitoba Co-operator Staff September 30, 2014

Looking for CWB’s 2012-13 annual report? You won’t find it. All that Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz tabled in Parliament in July were the notes to CWB’s financial statement, which the public is having trouble finding. The Manitoba Co-operator has received a number of requests for the notes submitted to the ag-minister by CWB and we’ve obtained a copy

Cereals, Crops, News

CWB under fire for not taking delivery

Questions are also being raised about an unprecedented final adjusted payment from 2011-12 issued this May

By Allan Dawson June 27, 2014

The Canadian Wheat Board is dead but CWB, its government-owned, open-market successor, is still a lightning rod for controversy. CWB is being criticized for not taking delivery of all the grain it contracted this crop year, there are questions about why it issued final adjustment payments from 2011-12, and its 2012-13 financial statements are three

News

CWB optimistic about privatization plans post-monopoly

By Allan Dawson May 23, 2013

The new CWB, a government-owned grain company created last Aug. 1, continues to work towards privatization, says its president and CEO Ian White. “We still hope we can find a mechanism to have farmers as shareholders (but) with the amount of capital we think we need maybe others as well,” White said in an interview

Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets, Oilseeds

Dry soils, high prices prompt farmers’ return to wheat and durum

By Dwayne Klassen March 7, 2013

Farmers in drier regions of the  western Prairies flirted with canola  but are turning back to the tried and true

Attractive prices and weather issues are expected to help farmers in Canada take a serious look at seeding more acres to wheat this summer than in previous years, according to industry sources. “Last year a lot of farmers took a chance with canola given the high financial returns, but the drier-than-anticipated conditions across parts of

Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets, News

CWB privatizing sooner than later

By Allan Dawson January 30, 2013

The CWB is talking to potential partners about taking the government-owned grain company private sooner than later. “We’ve been talking to people already in the grain industry and people who are not and want to invest in it,” Gord Flaten, the CWB’s vice-president for grain procurement, told reporters Jan. 16 after speaking at Ag Days.

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: CME cattle futures rise on expectations of tight supplies

U.S. grains: Chicago soybeans fall, but achieve first annual gain in three years

ICE Canada Weekly: Canola unlikely to have a good start to 2026

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