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Living the good life in Inglis

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For years, every Prairie town had hubs for its business and social life: a grain elevator, a general store, a garage, a café, the post office, churches and the hotel. With the passage of time, most of these landmarks have gone the way of the dinosaur, but many towns still have a hotel. Inglis, Manitoba
Cereals, Crops, News

One GRL scientist and his revolutionary technology

By Val Ominski Protein has always made the wheat world go round, but it became even more important in the mid-1960s when some of the world’s major wheat producers began selling wheat according to protein content. In response, the Canadian Grain Commission developed a method for segregating wheat based on protein content — thereby increasing
Cereals, Crops, News

Fair treatment for Western farmers began 100 years ago

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It was more than a century ago but bitter conflict between farmers and the early western Canadian grain industry still resonates in the childhood memories of old-timers like Harvey English. “It was highway robbery. That’s what it was in those days,” says English, 94. “They were just stealing everything off the farmer that they could
Crops, News

Marking a century of service

To survive a century is quite an achievement. But our longevity is not what is noteworthy, as you will see as you read about our past. No, our true achievement is our role in the growth of the Canadian grain industry. For 100 years, we have collaborated with Canadian grain producers and other members of
Cereals, Opinion

Foreign traders vying for piece of North American grain-handling sector

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The urgency to operate in the United States or Canada has grown because of increasing global demand for crops

For decades, the world’s leading grain traders like Cargill and Bunge enjoyed an unparalleled advantage: their smaller North American competitors lacked the flexibility and diversity of a global operation, and their foreign rivals lacked access to the biggest and most stable exporters in the world. That’s about to change. Large U.S. and Canadian grain companies
Cereals, Crops, News

Canadian Wheat Board seen gaining grain-handling deals

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Canadian Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz said Feb. 27 he is confident the Canadian Wheat Board will strike agreements with grain handlers to allow it to start buying farmers’ 2012 crops for future delivery. As of Aug. 1, the wheat board plans to continue buying and selling upcoming crops, even though farmers will be no longer
Cereals, Crops, News

Git ‘r done Grain Growers urges

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The Canadian Wheat Board will offer new crop-pricing options soon, spokesperson Maureen Fitzhenry said in an interview Feb. 22, but she declined to specify a date, nor say when the board expects to finalize agreements with companies to handle grain on its behalf. “It’s still our hope that we’ll be able to do something very
Crops, News

Grain-handling history available online

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A train rushes across the Prairies, taking rail cars of grain from country elevators to terminal elevators at Thunder Bay, Ontario. It’s a scene that could be from any year. But this train is a steam engine and the year is 1955, as seen in the documentary “Grain Handling in Canada” which is available for

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