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It’s early days but the grain pipeline is working smoothly in wake of the new open market for wheat and barley
So far, so good. That sums up Western Canada’s 2012-13 crop year following the introduction of an open market for wheat and barley Aug. 1. But it’s still early days, say grain company officials. “It’s really too early to say a lot on the logistics side,” Ward Weisensel, CWB’s chief operating officer, said in anThe new CWB says it’s ready to compete in an open market and buoyed by a good crop, high prices and farmer support
The drama over the demise of the Canadian Wheat Board single desk showed no sign of abating last week as the new era of open grain marketing began. Prime Minister Stephen Harper told several hundred cheering farmers gathered at a farm near Kindersley, Sask. Aug. 1 farmers who ran the border to challenge the board’sDemand for forages strong in other countries, but Canadian forage growers face major hurdles getting their products to market
So close, but yet so far away. Although Churchill is the nearest saltwater port for Prairie forage growers, a consultant’s analysis has ruled out its potential as a cheaper option shipping hay to other countries. “We had hoped the Churchill port would be able to play an important part in the development of an overseas
