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Kirschmann Spra-Coupe, and wheat exports see a five-year low

Our History: June 1968

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff June 2, 2016

This Kirschmann Spra-Coupe advertised in our June 13, 1968 issue featured a 54-foot spray pattern and speeds up to 25 m.p.h. The main front-page news that issue was Manitoba Pool Elevators directors recommending that the Pool convert to a “line” company. Unlike the other two Prairie Pools, which were centrally owned from the start, each

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The Bredt Trophy

Our History: April 1961

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff May 25, 2016

This photo from our April 27, 1961 issue shows Tom Watson, president of the Elkhorn-Arawana Crop Improvement Club, receiving the Bredt Trophy from Manitoba Pool Elevators director G.G. Jamieson. The trophy was named in honour of Paul Bredt, MPE’s second president, who was credited with steering the company through the difficult times of the 1930s.

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Retiring? Invest in the Manitoba Pool – but maybe not at today’s rates

Our History: May 1980

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff April 28, 2016

If you’re looking for retirement income today, you’ll look fondly at the 13.5 per cent on 10-year certificates offered by Manitoba Pool Elevators in May of 1980. At the end of 10 years, they’d be worth $3,548. If you invested at today’s GIC rates of around 2.5 per cent, $1,000 would become only $1,280 in

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New alliance in grain elevators formed, U.S. durum duties opposed

Our History: October 1993

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff October 1, 2015

This ad in our Oct. 14, 1993 issue described a new alliance between Can-Oat Milling and Manitoba Pool Elevators, which had purchased an 11 per cent interest in the operation at Portage la Prairie. SaskPool later bought MPE’s interest and it eventually became part of the Agricore/UGG/SaskPool/Viterra mergers. It is now owned by James Richardson

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Manitoba Pool payments ‘doubtful’ due to low wheat prices

Our History: November 1986

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff November 18, 2014

This advertisement in our Nov. 13, 1986 issue invited Manitoba Pool Elevators members to attend the annual meeting of their local elevator to receive an update on its performance for the last crop year. Speaking to the annual meeting of MPE delegates the previous week, wheat board chief commissioner Esmond Jarvis said final payments were doubtful due

Cereals, News

In Brief… – for Dec. 16, 2010

By Reuters December 16, 2010

Ukraine extends export quotas:Ukraine’s government on Dec. 8 extended grain export quotas, set to expire on Dec. 31, until March 31, 2011, Interfax Ukraine news agency quoted Farm Minister Mykola Prysyazhnyuk as saying. “The question is resolved. The quotas are extended by the decision of the government,” Prysyazhnyuk said. Ukraine’s Economy Ministry said earlier it

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Agriculture Hall Of Fame – for Aug. 20, 2009

August 20, 2009

John Murray Cormack was born and raised on a family farm at Rossburn, Manitoba. He obtained a BSA from the University of Manitoba, an MSc from the University of Nebraska and a PhD from Iowa State University. Murray and Cather ine (nee Crookshank) raised four sons: Ron, Ken, Neil and David. From 1957 to 1959,

Cereals, News, Oilseeds

Nexera Growing At Bunge Altona

By Allan Dawson April 9, 2009

The owners have changed a few times and so have the oilseeds it crushes, but the processing plant farmers built here in 1946 still epitomizes the concept of “value added.” In fact, this plant has been “value adding” since long before the words became part of the Prairie lexicon. Canola, the oilseed it processes almost

Cereals, News

Arborg Trying To Save Its Elevator

By Allan Dawson April 2, 2009

“Anybody I’ve talked to is very upset (about the prospect of losing the elevator). In fact, the words are as harsh as ‘it’s criminal.’” – BILL URUSKI Scott Sigvaldason isn’t prepared to let Arborg’s grain elevator be destroyed without a fight. The Arborg-area grain farmer and president of Wedge Farms Nutrition, an oat-processing firm, says

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Kirschmann Spra-Coupe, and wheat exports see a five-year low

The Bredt Trophy

Retiring? Invest in the Manitoba Pool – but maybe not at today’s rates

New alliance in grain elevators formed, U.S. durum duties opposed

Manitoba Pool payments ‘doubtful’ due to low wheat prices

In Brief… – for Dec. 16, 2010

Agriculture Hall Of Fame – for Aug. 20, 2009

Nexera Growing At Bunge Altona

Arborg Trying To Save Its Elevator

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