Oat market is hammering out a bottom

“Nobody has done that analysis. The minister himself told me they haven’t done it in their department, which is kind of strange.” – ian wishart The Canadian Grain Commission (CGC) will stop grading grain at western Canadian country elevators, even if it’s being exported directly to the United States, starting Aug. 1, 2009. Critics say

Smaller Grain Firms Form A New Seed Company

Alliance Seed Corporation, as the name implies, is a new joint venture involving two grain companies and four inland terminals. It was created to serve western Canadian farmers as well as keep its parent companies competitive in the grain business, says Alliance Seed’s manager Dale Alderson. “It has been a long time coming together,” Alderson


Russia combines assets to great new grain player

The Russian government has sent a draft decree on creating a grain-trading company on the basis of state-owned assets to President Dmitry Medvedev for signing, powerful grain industry lobby said Jan. 12. “Once the decree is signed it will take one month or one month and a half to effectively transfer the assets,” Arkady Zlochevsky,

Railways should repay farmers excess revenues: WGEA

“More than anything it just seemed to us to be the right thing to do.” – Wade Sobkowich The almost $60 million western grain farmers overpaid the railways last year should be returned to farmers, says the Western Grain Elevator Association, which represents Canada’s main grain companies. The association said the overpayments, which amount to


Who is the Grain Growers of Canada?

The Grain Growers of Canada was founded in 2000 to represent grain growers, through their respective associations, across Canada. The initial members were the Alberta Barley Commission, Atlantic Grains Council, Alberta Winter Wheat Producers Commission, Ontario Corn Producers’ Association, Ontario Soybean Growers, Saskatchewan Canola Growers Association and Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association. Since then all