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Buckwheat Focus Of Health Benefits Study

By Daniel Winters February 3, 2011

Local research into buckwheat is looking at new product possibilities based on the potential health benefits from consuming stone-milled flour, sprouted grain and green leaves. The Manitoba Agri-Health Research Network (MAHRN), which began working with grower groups about 18 months ago to explore new ways to market crops in the province, is co-ordinating research efforts

Country Crossroads

Don’t Let Winter Blues Get You Down

By Lorraine Stevenson January 27, 2011

I hope you made it through Blue Monday last week. What I mean is, I hope you weren’t paying any attention to it. The first Monday of the third week of January (the date is debated) has been dubbed The Most Depressing Day of the Year. What it is, actually, is just another myth that

Cereals, Livestock

Saudi Arabia To Privatize Its Flour Mills

November 18, 2010

Saudi Arabia’s state-run Grain Silos and Flour Mills Organization (GSFMO) said Nov. 9 it would privatize its flour-grinding mills by creating four companies, but will continue to import wheat and sell it to the mills. The top oil exporter has 11 flour mills it hopes to sell to private investor groups but it did not

Cereals, Opinion

A Graph Would Do Nicely – for Sep. 9, 2010

September 9, 2010

Some of us in business can communicate directly with the final consumer of our product. Farmers usually aren’t so fortunate. For example, wheat goes to a grain company, then to a mill and finally to a bakery. The baker, rather than the farmer, gets to take the credit for that nice tasty loaf of bread.

Cereals, Crops, Opinion

Controversial Wheat Comes To An Official End – for Aug. 5, 2010

August 5, 2010

Periodically, the Prairie grain industry faces controversy when wheat growers find varieties which offer apparent agronomic benefits, but with quality characteristics that don’t fit official classes. The deregistration of the wheat variety Garnet earlier last month reminds that such controversies are not new. Licensing of Garnet prompted national political discussion in the 1920s and 1930s.

Country Crossroads

Now That’s Good Bread

By Candy Irwin July 22, 2010

Beatrice Hosmann of Sandy Lake, Manitoba makes really good bread. I know, because I’m eating a slice right now, toasted, with my coffee! When Hosmann came to Canada from her native Switzerland just over 12 years ago, she and her family found Canadian bread to be insubstantial. “We Europeans love our bread,” said Hosmann, so

Cereals, Country Crossroads, Oilseeds

What To Eat When You Can’t Eat Wheat

By Lorraine Stevenson June 17, 2010

RECIPE SWAP Judy Driedger had no idea where to start when she began eliminating gluten from her diet after suspecting she had a gluten intolerance causing her stomach aches and itching skin. That was over five years ago. The Austin-area woman saw her symptoms disappear and her health restored. Although never having a blood test

Cereals, News

Grain Handler Viterra Buys U. S. Processor

June 3, 2010

Top Canadian grain handler Vi terra said May 27 it will buy 21st Century Grain Processing in a $90.5-million cash deal that brings it an oat mill and wheat mill in the United States. The oat mill in South Sioux City, Nebraska, can store four million bushels and process up to 295 tonnes of commercial

Cereals, Crops

Russia Plans To Expand Wheat Exports

By Naveen Thukral March 18, 2010

“We will be selling Russian wheat directly to flour mills in Asia and we are not going to go through third-party trading companies.” Russian wheat exports to Asia are likely to jump sixfold, to around three million tonnes by 2011, as the country mounts its first aggressive marketing campaign to sell grain in the region,

Cereals, Crops

Wheat Makes Some People Sick

By Allan Dawson March 11, 2010

Wheat is hailed as the main ingredient in the “staff of life,” but it makes about 14 per cent of North Americans sick, a recent industry meeting was told. That’s not the best news for Canadian farmers who grow more acres of wheat than any other crop, or North American flour millers who want people

Daily Network News

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Chicken, eggs benefit from demand for economical protein

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