Recipe Swap – for Jul. 14, 2011

It was dessert for breakfast. We’d gathered for a late-morning breakfast with family at the Whytewold Emporium at Whytewold on Lake Winnipeg, having heard the quaint lakeside eatery was famous for its all-day crepes and wood-fired pizzas. The reputation is well deserved. I had a Canadian Maple crepe, a plump, wallet-sized creation garnished with bananas

CWB Working On Open-Market Model

The Canadian Wheat Board is working on a model for converting the single-desk seller of western barley and wheat into an open-market grain company. But for this “new entity” to survive the federal government must make major concessions, including assuming CWB employees’ pension liability, says chair Allen Oberg. “It’s our view that it’s the government’s


Wheat Board Should Get On With New Role: Richardson

The Canadian Wheat Board should not receive ongoing government help after its grain-marketing monopoly ends, but needs to quickly plan for a new role, the head of Richardson International Limited, Canada’s second-largest grain handler, said on July 7. Canada’s Conservative government, which holds a majority of seats in the House of Commons, plans to pass

Shhh… Don’t Tell The Canola Council

We want to believe those promises of good things to come Western Canada’s way once the Canadian Wheat Board is outa’ the way. We really do. According to Minister of Agriculture Gerry Ritz, the CWB monopoly is weakening our clout in world wheat and barley trade. “What was once Canada’s signature crop has fallen behind,”


CWB Fate Clouds Agriculture Ministers’ Meeting

Canada’s agriculture ministers agreed on food policy development and improved support programs for farmers, but the results of their annual meeting were overshadowed by debate on the Canadian Wheat Board’s fate. The meeting in St. Andrews, N.B. featured a green light for further development of a National Food Strategy (NFS) under the aegis of the

CWB, Crow Fights Have Something In Common: Alberta

Efforts to end the Canadian Wheat Board’s (CWB) single desk are reminiscent of the battle to kill the Crow Rate, says pollster David Herle. Both went on for years, eventually wearing down farmer resistance and “these are both Alberta agendas,” said Herle, principal partner in the Gandalf Group, which surveys farmers for the CWB. “The


South America To Grow More Soybeans

Farmers in Brazil and Argentina are likely to strongly expand soybean sowings for the 2012 harvest as global soy demand grows, Hamburgbased oilseeds analystsOil Worldsaid June 21. Brazil’s soybean sowings for harvesting in early 2012 are likely to be increased by about one million hectares on the year to 25.2 million hectares, continuing recent expansion

Most Manitobans Support Keeping CWB Single Desk: Struthers

After connecting with Manitobans through a “virtual” meeting on the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) June 29, there’s no question most Manitobans support the board’s statutory single desk, Stan Struthers says. More than 70 per cent of respondents who voted over the phone favour that, Manitoba’s minister of agriculture, food and rural initiatives said in an



Grass-Fed Beef Gaining A Foothold In Cattle Sector

If you suggest to Jim Lintott that grass-fed beef is tough, he’ll tell you in an second it simply isn’t true. Lintott says tests conducted over two years at the University of Manitoba gave a high tenderness rating to the beef produced by Manitoba Grass-Fed Beef Association members. But you don’t need research to convince