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Cereals, Opinion

Letters – for Apr. 14, 2011

Open letter to Brian Otto, president of Western Barley Growers Association: I dissected the results of the CWB elections and found a very different result and meaning than the outcome your ads proclaim. Upon looking at who originally voted in the first round and then calculating where they went on the second ballot, it became
Cereals, News

Organic Alliance Seeks Financial Relief For Small Growers

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Aprovincial industry lobby group wants the Manitoba government to ease the financial burden which new regulations will place on small organic farmers. The Manitoba Organic Alliance is asking the province to rebate part of the money small producers will have to pay to comply with organic standards under the incoming regulations. Currently, growers can sell
Cereals, News, Oilseeds

Marketing Survey Not Supported

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The canola growers’ associations in Saskatchewan and Alberta are distancing themselves from efforts from a group of Manitoba growers who want to try marketing the crop through the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB). Last week the Manitoba Canola Growers Association (MCGA) ran a survey in the Manitoba Co-operatorand Western Producerasking how many tonnes of canola farmers
Cereals, Grain Markets, Oilseeds

Waters Remain Muddied For Seeding Predictions

Canola futures on the ICE Futures Canada trading platform were mixed during the week ended April 8, with old-crop months down and new-crop contracts posting advances. The sell-off of the nearby May and July canola futures reflected the ample old-crop supply situation and the absence of demand from the domestic and export sectors. Talk surfaced
Cereals, Crops

CWB Deal Not What Most Shippers Want

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Shippers frustrated by inadequate rail service won’t likely be keen to copy an agreement struck by CP and the Canadian Wheat Board to improve grain shipments. The agreement is short on specifics especially whether it contains any financial penalties for non-performance, said Bob Ballantyne, president of the Canadian Industrial Transportation Agency. The railways want to
Crops, Oilseeds

New Grassy Weed Product

Farmers of North America has unleashed its own entry in the cat-themed grassy weed herbicide market for wheat and barley growers. Saskatoon-based FNA, which brokers deals for lower-cost imports of ag inputs on members’ behalf in the West, Ontario and Quebec, said Wednesday its product HellCat will be available for its members this spring. FNA
Cereals, Crops, Oilseeds

It’s Wet Across The West

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Snow is still piled deep on Humphrey Banack’s Camrose, Alberta grain farm at a time when he’s usually tuning up his tractor for planting. The wettest fields before planting since the 1970s look to frustrate Canadian farmers’ zeal to sow their fields on time this spring and cash in on wheat and canola prices that
Cereals, Crops

GE Wheat Not On Research Agenda

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The National Research Council is ruling out research into genetically engineered wheat as it puts the final touches to a plan to support wheat research across Canada to double yields and improve drought tolerance and disease resistance. Wheat has become the poor cousin to corn, soybeans, canola, pulses and other crops that have attracted a
Beef cattle, Hogs, Livestock

Cattle And Hog Groups To Lobby Electioneering Candidates

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Improved market access and better business risk management programs top livestock producers’ wish list for the May 2 federal election. The Canadian Cattlemen’s Association and the Canadian Pork Council vow to make trade and BRMs election issues as the campaign gets underway. They also say they will tell politicians that rising input costs and an
Livestock, Poultry

$7 Corn Makes Chicken Producer Pinch Pennies

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High-speed dryers will replace paper towels in company washrooms at Pilgrim’s Pride Corp. as the chicken producer looks to save money as the price of feed corn rises. Rival Tyson Foods Inc. is replacing freezers with more efficient models, streamlining production, and reducing product movement between plants to help offset feed costs. U.S. chickens consume

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