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USDA Faces Industry Grilling On Corn Stocks Data

By Julie Ingwersen October 20, 2011

Grain traders were expected to pepper U.S. Department of Agriculture officials with questions on Monday this week about how they came up with surprising crop data that has prompted wild swings in futures prices. USDA is widely regarded as the world s best source of information on U.S. and global crop supplies. But over the

Livestock

Price Spread Limiting DDGS Usage In Canada

By Phil Franz-Warkentin October 20, 2011

COMMODITY NEWS SERVICE CANADA Ample domestic feed grain supplies together with high prices for corn-based DDGS (dried distillers grains with solubles) from the U.S. are currently limiting usage of the ethanol byproduct in Canadian livestock rations, according to market participants. The price spread is too wide right now, said Ryan Slozka, senior commodity trader with

Cereals, Crops, Hogs, Livestock

High Cost Of Feed Barley In Manitoba Taking A Toll On Livestock Profits

By Daniel Winters October 20, 2011

Spring flooding and a hot, dry summer prevented many Manitoba farmers from getting a decent barley crop, and now livestock feeders are feeling the pinch from tighter supplies. Brent Swain, a grain buyer for FeedRite in Brandon, said he is offering $5.05 per bushel for top-grade feed barley, and $4.25 for high-vomitoxin samples. It s

Cereals, Country Crossroads

Brothers Capitalize On Specialty Brews With Local Flavour

By Lorraine Stevenson October 20, 2011

Now they re coming back to rural Manitoba, this time with plans to start up the first estate brewery in Canada. An estate brewery differs from other breweries by producing its own ingredients. We re farmers at heart, and we just sort of wanted to get back to the land, said Lawrence, who has just

Cereals, News

Farmers Fight Farmers In Canadian Wheat Board Brawl

By Allan Dawson October 20, 2011

Mostly it has been farmers fighting the government over the Canadian Wheat Board s future, now it s farmer against farmer. Three western Manitoba producers paid for an inserted advertisement in the Manitoba Co-operatorlast week accusing the Keystone Agriculture Producers (KAP) of not working to save the Canadian Wheat Board and suggesting KAP members request

Cereals, Crops

Legislation To End CWB Monopoly Being Tabled This Week

By Allan Dawson October 20, 2011

Legislation to end the Canadian Wheat Board s monopoly was to be tabled in the House of Commons Oct. 18, but the board is fighting back and is urging farmers to fight too. (Agriculture) Minister Ritz and Prime Minister Harper would like you to believe that this is a done deal, wheat board chair Allen

Cereals, Opinion

The Grain Trade Must Step Up

By John Morriss October 20, 2011

Throughout its history, this newspaper s editorial position has been that Prairie farmers are better off economically by selling wheat and barley through the Canadian Wheat Board. That has not changed, but since the board s end seems inevitable, we have recently focused not on saying don t do it but rather on emphasizing just

Cereals, Opinion

Letters – for Oct. 20, 2011

October 20, 2011

We welcome readers comments on issues that have been covered in the Manitoba Co-operator.In most cases we cannot accept open letters or copies of letters which have been sent to several publications. Letters are subject to editing for length or taste. We suggest a maximum of about 300 words. Please forward letters to ManitobaCo-operator, 1666DublinAve.,Winnipeg,

News, Oilseeds

Canada Working On Low-Level GM Presence Policy

By Allan Dawson October 20, 2011

Just a trace of an unapproved genetically modified (GM) plant can close borders costing grain traders and farmers millions in lost sales, something Canada knows all too well. In 2009 flax exports to the European Union (EU) were disrupted after they were found to contain low levels of CDC Triffid, a GM flax approved in

Cereals, News

Ottawa Accused Of Revising Wheat Board History

By Allan Dawson October 20, 2011

Regardless of how western farmers feel about the Canadian Wheat Board s (CWB) single desk today, the vast majority strongly supported it when it was created in 1943 and for years after, says Duke University history professor, John Herd Thompson. The Manitoba-born academic accuses Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz of trying

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USDA Faces Industry Grilling On Corn Stocks Data

Price Spread Limiting DDGS Usage In Canada

High Cost Of Feed Barley In Manitoba Taking A Toll On Livestock Profits

Farmers Fight Farmers In Canadian Wheat Board Brawl

Legislation To End CWB Monopoly Being Tabled This Week

The Grain Trade Must Step Up

Letters – for Oct. 20, 2011

Canada Working On Low-Level GM Presence Policy

Ottawa Accused Of Revising Wheat Board History

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