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Canola export plan eyes key tariff, non-tariff barriers

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff March 7, 2013

Tariffs still hinder canola’s access to China, Japan,  Korea and the EU but non-tariff barriers are emerging

Some countries are still slapping import-limiting tariffs on Canada’s canola, but the industry warns this country’s most valuable commodity crop is “uniquely susceptible” to non-tariff barriers emerging at an increasing rate. Both types of barriers in key export markets are targeted in the Canola Council of Canada’s new market access strategy — and will require

Cereals, News, Oilseeds, Opinion

March 7, 2013

Our March 8, 1979 issue featured a crop-management special, and this advertisement from that issue reminds of when Treflan was one of the most popular herbicides in Western Canada. Other ads in that issue included Avenge, Eradicane, Asulox, Hoe-Grass, Lorox, Torch and Buctril M. There was extensive information on growing rapeseed — it had not

Crops, Forages, News

There’s cash in that grass

By Daniel Winters March 1, 2013

With shrinking inventories pushing prices skyward, forage seed contractors say crops such as perennial ryegrass are a lucrative alternative for farmers wishing to diversify their rotation. “Potentially, it’s the most profitable crop out there,” said Harley Bell, Winnipeg-based product marketing manager with Brett Young. This year’s contract prices are the highest they’ve ever offered amid

Cereals, Country Crossroads, Oilseeds, Recipe Swap

Recipe Swap: Live well? Eat well?

By Lorraine Stevenson February 28, 2013

Become the next ‘Be Well’ storyteller Everyone loves a great story and it’s even better when the one telling it also lives it. That’s what you’ll hear and see in the ‘Be Well’ Stories told by Manitobans now found online at http://canolarecipes.com. The three inspiring video stories are those of Doug Chorney, East Selkirk farmer

Cereals, Dairy cattle, Hogs, Opinion

Colourful, but effective

By John Morriss February 28, 2013

Both Alex Binkley and Allan Dawson relate some memories of the accomplishments of the late Eugene Whelan elsewhere in this issue, but we can’t let him leave us without noting one ambition he failed to achieve. Whelan desperately wanted to be minister responsible for the Canadian Wheat Board (never making a secret of it) but

Cereals, Opinion

More than met the eye to Whelan

By Alex Binkley February 28, 2013

Eugene Whelan will be remembered mostly for his green Stetson, inability to speak either of Canada’s official languages and his cheerleading for the farm community. Too bad because there was a lot more to the former Liberal agriculture minister, who died just weeks after his Conservative counterpart John Wise. He was a lot politically shrewder

Crops, Oilseeds, Pulses

Soybeans head west

By Phil Franz-Warkentin February 28, 2013

With soybean acres continuing to soar in Manitoba, it appears soybeans are catching on in Saskatchewan too. Actual acreage data is scarce given the crop’s recent expansion into Saskatchewan, but Dale Risula, a crops specialist with Saskatchewan Agriculture, estimated that about 70,000 acres were sown in 2012. “The interest in soybeans seems very strong,” said

Crops, Oilseeds, Pulses

Soybeans still picking up acres

By Gord Gilmour March 1, 2013

At one time the edible bean workshops would have been the hot ticket at the Manitoba Special Crops Symposium and you’d be fighting for a chair. This year there were just a few scattered groups of growers listening to presentations on everything from harvest methods to seeding techniques and there were likely more empty chairs

Cereals, Crops

IP program portends changes to registration system

By Allan Dawson February 28, 2013

An identity-preserved production contract a Manitoba company is offering for the U.S. wheat variety Faller this spring could be a sign of things to come as Canada’s variety registration system faces unprecedented pressures for change. Farmers selling Faller, a high-yielding, lower-protein, unregistered American spring milling wheat, would normally get a feed wheat price. But those

Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets, Oilseeds

Precipitation elsewhere drags on oilseed momentum

By Dwayne Klassen February 28, 2013

Canola futures on the ICE Futures Canada trading platform posted small advances during the week ended Feb. 22. The gains would have been significantly higher had it not been for some late-week taking of profits by a variety of market participants. Some of the strength was related to the downward swing in the value of

Daily Network News

New strategies needed for Canadian agriculture to stand out in global trade

Feed Grains Weekly: Cash prices for wheat, barley largely flat

The Canadian GMO mustard wars: Dijon vs canola

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