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Prime minister celebrates grain-marketing freedom

By Allan Dawson August 10, 2012

The 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’s

Crops, News

Churchill port no solution for forage exporters, report says

By Daniel Winters April 15, 2012

Demand 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

Cereals, Crops, News

CWB books $6 billion in revenues for 2010-11

By Dave Bedard March 14, 2012

Prairie wheat and barley growers saw payments of about $5.5 billion for their deliveries to the Canadian Wheat Board during the 2010-11 crop year. The CWB released its annual report for 2010-11 Feb. 21 showing $6.071 billion in combined pool revenue, with $3.792 billion paid out to pool participants, another $1.709 billion paid out through

Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets, News

Checks and balances needed, post-CWB

By Shannon VanRaes February 15, 2012

With the end of single-desk grain marketing in sight, producers and farm organizations are focusing on filling in the gaps and supporting a stable transition to an open market. “There are more questions than answers,” said Don Dewar, chairman of an ad hoc Keystone Agricultural Producers committee looking at issues grain producers will face in

Cereals, Crops

Churchill Exports Higher Than Average

November 10, 2011

The Canadian Wheat Board exported a higher-than-average 507,000 tonnes of wheat and durum through Manitoba s northern port of Churchill in 2011. Sixteen ocean vessels loaded wheat or durum this year, bound for Europe, Africa or Latin America, but this year s tonnage was smaller than last year s 600,000 tonnes. The wheat board is

Cereals, Crops

Black Sea Wheat Displacing European And U.S. Sales Competition

By Aleksandras Budrys November 10, 2011

Top Black Sea wheat producers will flood markets for the entire 2011-12 crop year, giving rivals little respite from high volumes of cheap grain, with Russia dominating in the first half of the season and Ukraine and Kazakhstan in the second. Massive Black Sea exports were pressur ing European wheat shipments their main competitor but

Cereals, News

Conservatives Pull Out All Stops To Ram CWB Bill Into Law

By Alex Binkley October 27, 2011

CO-OPERATOR CONTRIBUTOR / OTTAWA The Conservatives have the legislation to strip the Canadian Wheat Board of its wheat and barley monopoly on a forced march through Parliament. Second reading debate began Oct. 19 and was set to conclude Oct. 24 as theCo-operatorwas going to press. The government will use its majority to give the bill

Cereals, News

Millions For Churchill

By Allan Dawson October 27, 2011

The Port of Churchill is getting millions of federal dollars to help it adjust to an open market starting Aug. 1, 2012. Eighty-five per cent of the total traffic, and almost all of the grain exported through Prairie Canada s only seaport, comes from the Canadian Wheat Board. Last year it exported 659,000 tonnes of

Cereals, Crops

Farmers Reap $35 Million In Transportation Savings

October 6, 2011

STAFF / The Canadian Wheat Board says it saved western Canadian farmers $35 million in grain transportation during the previous crop year, through programs designed to reduce producers costs for moving their grain to port. Farmers bear all the costs of grain transportation, so the CWB is constantly looking for ways to keep those costs

Cereals, News

Transition Report Rejects Regulation

By Allan Dawson October 6, 2011

Let the market work. That s what the working group on the transition to an open market and voluntary Canadian Wheat Board Aug. 1, 2012 advises Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz in its report released Sept. 28. The government should let the open market function and intervene only where necessary to address actual market failures, the

Daily Network News

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Larkin to step down as Grain Growers of Canada Executive Director

Calling for bigger crops ahead of StatCan report

Tag Archives Port of Churchill

Prime minister celebrates grain-marketing freedom

Churchill port no solution for forage exporters, report says

CWB books $6 billion in revenues for 2010-11

Checks and balances needed, post-CWB

Churchill Exports Higher Than Average

Black Sea Wheat Displacing European And U.S. Sales Competition

Conservatives Pull Out All Stops To Ram CWB Bill Into Law

Millions For Churchill

Farmers Reap $35 Million In Transportation Savings

Transition Report Rejects Regulation

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