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Japanese seek assurances of continued wheat quality

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Satoru Koyajima likes the quality of the Canadian durum, but wonders if it will be there in the future. “We are a little bit concerned now that the Canadian Wheat Board is not operating as it used to,” he said through a translator. But the research and development leader with Japan’s largest pasta producer has
Beef cattle, Cereals, Livestock, Livestock Markets

Bad news for XL Foods is good news for organic beef

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Smaller, independently operated production, slaughter and marketing channels 
paying off in higher prices and increased consumer confidence

Some Manitoba ranchers aren’t losing any sleep over the problems faced by the XL Foods beef recall. That’s because their beef is certified organic, and marketed through channels that operate totally independent of the big players. “I think we are definitely starting to see demand perk up, not that it wasn’t hot already,” said Allan
Country Crossroads, News

A good year for pumpkins

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At this time of year, we see piles of pumpkins at market gardens that have been picked off the frozen vines and are ready for purchase. Huge orange giants, paler varieties that grow even bigger — the ones used in pumpkin-growing contests, ghostly white pumpkins, and miniatures; they are all there in vast array. Of
Country Crossroads, News

Cooking from…“speed scratch?”

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Some days you can’t get the food on the table fast enough. On those days, consider “speed scratch” cooking methods when time is short and your family members are sitting at the table with their knives and forks in hand. Speed scratch is a term used when you combine ready-to-use fresh foods (such as salad
Cereals, Oilseeds, Opinion

Soy in the wheat flour? Soy what?

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Most wheat and wheat-derived food products sold in Canadian grocery stores today contain soy that is undeclared on the label. Yes, you read that right. Because of farming operations with common storage facilities, and shared harvesting and transportation equipment, most wheat products contain detectable levels of soy. This contamination is adventitious and largely unavoidable with
Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets, News

Manitoba oat prices near historic highs

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Cash bids for oats in Manitoba have soared to a level near historic highs, industry officials said. Some Manitoba oat farmers were receiving up to $4 per bushel as of Oct. 22, Warren Alexander, a commodity trader with Emerson Milling, in Emerson said. “This price level, historically, seems to be the high,” he said. “Prices
Cereals, News, Opinion

One per cent checkoff recommended for developing new varieties

The Standing Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry is currently holding hearings on agricultural research. These are excerpts from a presentation Oct. 18 by Richard S. Gray, professor, Bioresource Policy, Business and Economics at the University of Saskatchewan. He has visited Australia, France and the U.K. to study their system for funding research My first
Crops, News, Oilseeds

U.S. corn harvest on record pace, soy lagging

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Reuters / U.S. corn harvest was a record 87 per cent complete and farmers had finished 80 per cent of soybean harvest as of Sunday, Oct. 21 according to a U.S. Agriculture Department report issued on Monday, but the tail end of their combining efforts was expected to be slow due to rain. Analysts had

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