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Calls coming for new car czar

Ian McCreary says the grain transportation system is lacking independent,  third-party oversight for setting shipping targets and rail car allocation

By Allan Dawson April 9, 2014

Is the creation of a new car czar similar to how the Grain Transportation Agency operated two decades ago the way to keep the grain flowing smoothly to export? Speakers at last week’s grain transportation summit here said someone or something needs to co-ordinate car allocations, especially when demand exceeds supply. Even CN Rail seems

Cereals, Crops, News

Single desk would have saved billions: former CWB director

‘Orderly marketing’ would have removed pressure of surplus grain on the market

By Allan Dawson April 8, 2014

Farmers probably would not have delivered much more grain under the former wheat board’s single desk this crop year, but they would be billions of dollars richer, according to a former CWB elected director. Ian McCreary, a farmer at Bladworth, Sask. and a former CWB staff analyst, said that’s because farmers would not be losing

Crops

CGC’s new farmer payment protection program delayed

The new insurance scheme will provide 45 days of protection after farmers deliver their grain

By Allan Dawson April 7, 2014

It’s taking longer than expected to roll out the Canadian Grain Commission’s (CGC) new insurance program to protect farmers against payment defaults by grain companies. But farmers need not worry because the current security program will continue until the new one is ready to go, Jim Smolik, the CGC’s assistant chief commissioner told Winter Cereals

Crops, News & Opinion

Grain bin listings available to farmers facing spring floods

With spring officially here, producers in flood-prone areas  will need to move grain to higher ground

April 1, 2014

The Manitoba government has launched a grain bin listing service to assist farmers who may have to move grain out of the way of spring flooding. “Our first priority is getting this grain moving, but secondly, we need to ensure we have ample space should farmers need emergency alternate locations for at-risk grain in flood-prone

Crops

Agriculture debate on Bill C-18 sours quickly

The government says opposition MPs, but critics say the government was late introducing the legislation for debate

By Alex Binkley March 21, 2014

Opposition MPs have lots of questions and comments about the implications of government legislation to improve the rights of seed developers and change farm support programs. However, when they challenged some provisions in C-18, the Canadian Agricultural Growth Act, during the first few hours of second-reading debate, the government accused them of trying to hijack

Gordon Harrison speaking into a microphone.

Cereals, News

Poor rail service blamed for some Canadian mills closing temporarily after running out of grain

The transportation crisis is hurting domestic grain customers too, says CNMA president Gordon Harrison

By Allan Dawson February 26, 2014

Western Canada’s grain train backlog is hurting the industry’s Canadian customers too with some millers forced to close due to a lack of supply, the president of the Canadian National Millers Association (CNMA) says. “Prolonged interruptions of up to three to four weeks in wheat and oat delivery by rail to mills have literally forced

Beef cattle, Cereals, Opinion

Different this time — again

By John Morriss January 23, 2014

This line in a Reuters story last week certainly put things in focus. “Ukraine is likely to be the world’s second-largest grain exporter in the 2013-14 season with the shipment of more than 30 million tonnes, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.” We’d seen the figures before, but considering that Ukraine and its former

Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets, US Markets

GRAINS-Wheat climbs 1 pct as global demand heats up

By Reuters November 27, 2013

* Wheat up for four out of five sessions

Students at the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines perform calculations of postharvest loss of rice grains in October 2012.

Cereals, Crops, Opinion

A less glamorous — but more effective — approach to feeding the world

By Digvir S. Jayas November 27, 2013

Annually over 2.6 billion tonnes of grains — cereals, oilseeds and pulses — are grown and then stored along the chain from producers to consumers. Most countries do not systematically report how much grain becomes unfit for human consumption during storage, but anecdotal reports suggest it’s worryingly high. In poorly managed storage systems, such as

Cereals, Crops

New grains council head faces personal and professional challenges

By Alex Binkley November 20, 2013

Richard Phillips has taken over as president of the Canadian Grains Council at a  difficult time in his own life and one of rapid change in the grain sector

Richard Phillips was expecting plenty of challenges when he took over as president of the Canadian Grains Council. But July 31, his last day as executive director of Grain Growers of Canada, brought him a challenge he hadn’t expected. His doctor told him he had an advanced case of bladder cancer. What was to have

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle, hog futures rise on first WASDE since September

U.S. export sales include only small soybean business to China

U.S. corn and soybean yields revised down by USDA

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