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Cargill not commenting on IPO rumours

April 15, 2012

chicago / reuters / U.S. agribusiness Cargill Inc. said on March 28 it had no comment regarding a market rumour that it was planning an initial public offering. “Our company does not comment on market rumours,” Cargill spokeswoman Lisa Clemens said. Talk about an IPO among traders and investment bankers surfaces periodically about Minneapolis-based Cargill,

Country Crossroads, News, Recipe Swap

Recipe Swap, April 12, 2012

By Lorraine Stevenson April 15, 2012

Asparagus reigns as a favourite It sounds like the name of a Roman ruler, and for a while it dominates like one in our gardens and fridges too. I’m talking about asparagus, of course, which may show earlier and oftener this spring. As those who grow it know, you can be picking every day as

Crops, News, Oilseeds

Officials meet to discuss low-level GMO contamination

By Alex Binkley April 15, 2012

Government and farm officials are continuing their efforts to bring some clarity to the contentious issue of low-level presence of genetically modified organisms, but it’s not clear how much progress is being made. Officials from exporting and importing countries recently met in Vancouver to discuss how to prevent trade disruptions when trace levels of a

Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets, News

Ian White says CWB sees farmers as its “natural shareholders”

By Allan Dawson April 15, 2012

As the Canadian Wheat Board inches towards privatization, the debate has begun whether it will be farmers or the likes of Cargill that ultimately own the assets. The latter has not even raised the idea with the board, CWB president and CEO Ian White said at a recent producers’ meeting. “There’s been no discussion of

Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets, News, Oilseeds

Pre-seeding risk premium being built into canola

By Dwayne Klassen April 15, 2012

The nearby May and July canola contracts on the ICE Futures Canada trading platform suffered some minor declines during the week ended April 5, while the remainder of the futures saw small to modest advances. Profit-taking sparked some of the losses in the two nearby futures, as did an increase in hedge selling by grain

Crops, News, Oilseeds

South American soy crop outlook worsens

April 15, 2012

Hamburg / Reuters /Soybean crops in Argentina and Brazil have suffered from more poor weather and harvest forecasts for the two countries may have to be cut by a combined two million to three million tonnes, Hamburg-based oilseeds analysts Oil World said April 3. “New reports have been received confirming additional crop losses, further eroding

Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets, News

Former CWB directors appealing Queen’s Bench decision

By Allan Dawson April 15, 2012

Eight former farmer-elected Canadian Wheat Board directors are appealing Manitoba Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Shane Perlmutter’s Feb. 24 decision not to protect the board’s single desk while the courts determine the legality of a federal law killing it. Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz is asking why the directors don’t “move on,” but the directors contend

Cereals, News

Budget pushes CGC changes

By Allan Dawson April 7, 2012

The Canadian Grain Commission, grain industry watchdog and wheat quality guardian for 100 years this month, won’t be financed by taxpayers after 2014. Last week’s federal budget included $44 million to help the commission transition to full self-sufficiency over the next two years. The federal government also plans to reintroduce legislation to “modernize” the commission.

Cereals, Crops, News

Nancy Edwards: Keen for the challenges of wheat research

April 8, 2012

By Val Ominski When Nancy Edwards, a biological technology grad from Red River Community College, joined the Grain Research Lab as a technician in 1976, little did she know that one day she would be the scientist responsible for the lab’s bread wheat research group. Edwards went on to achieve her PhD in Food Science

Cereals, Crops, News, Oilseeds

Quality assurance through world-class research stands the test of time

April 7, 2012

By Val Ominski The bright blue paint, on the Allis Chalmers roll stands, looks conspicuously out of place among the gleaming modern metal in the pilot-scale flour mill on the 16th floor of the CGC Grain Research Lab. Miller Dave Turnock thinks they are about 80 years old and have also seen duty at the

Daily Network News

Despite cheaper land costs, Canadian farmers at slight revenue disadvantage to U.S.

Feed grain weekly: Western Canadian barley bids seasonally firm

China’s Q1 pork output up 4.2 per cent from a year earlier, lags expectations

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