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Forage Exports Through Churchill Studied

Anew study currently underway into exporting Manitoba forage crops through the Port of Churchill may find sales opportunities somewhat mixed. New overseas markets do exist for locally grown forages. And shipping through Hudson Bay is shorter and cheaper than via Vancouver or the St. Lawrence. But, as always, Churchill has limits as an ocean port
Cereals, Crops, News

CWB Raises Wheat Export Target Again

The Canadian Wheat Board on Jan. 4 raised its 2010-11 grain export target for the third time since midsummer, but bigger shipments from Western Canada will do little to ease global worries about a shortage of high-quality milling wheat. Too much rain last summer in Western Canada and during the current harvest in eastern Australia
Cereals, Crops

CWB Must Be A Strong Advocate For Farmers

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For over 30 years, I have produced wheat and canola near Benito, Man. This has made me a strong supporter of the single-desk marketing and farmer control of the Canadian Wheat Board. These are the reasons I am asking for your support in the Canadian Wheat Board directors’ elections. It matters who we elect and
Cereals, News

Manitoba’s Northern Port Exported 656,298 Tonnes Of Grain In 2010

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The Port of Churchill shipped 656,298 tonnes of grain this year, the second-highest tonnage ever. “The goal remains handling a million tonnes,” said Mike Ogborn executive vice-president of OmniTRAX Canada, which owns the port and the railway that serves it. “And we’re moving towards that. This has been a good year and we want to
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In Brief… – for Aug. 5, 2010

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Drought cuts production: Russia may harvest less than 80 million tonnes of grain this year as severe drought has hit many key grain-growing regions, Deputy Economy Minister Andrei Klepach said July 26. “(The) previous official grain crop forecast was 80 million to 85 million tonnes. Now we believe the outcome of the year may be
Cereals, Crops

Seaway Shipments Up Sharply

Cargo shipping through the St. Lawrence Seaway, connecting North America’s Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean, rose 18 per cent in the first four months of the year from the year-before period, signalling a rebound in the manufacturing sector, seaway officials said May 11. Total cargo shipments rose to nearly 3.7 million tonnes, with iron
Cereals, News

Brisk Grain Movement Coming

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The Canadian Wheat Board is on track to meet its export target of 19.3 million tonnes of wheat, durum and barley this year thanks to unusually good rail service, farmers here were told last week. “In my 10 or 11 years at the wheat board this is probably their (railways) best year next to last
Cereals, Crops

Canada, World To Grow Less Wheat

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Canadian farmers will produce nine per cent less wheat this year as big global supplies and lower prices cause the world’s top exporter of spring wheat and durum to look to other crops, the Canadian Wheat Board said Feb. 22. Canada will reap a crop of 24 million tonnes of all wheat in 2010 compared
Cereals, Crops

World’s Farmers To Grow Less Wheat In 2010

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Farmers will produce the world’s smallest wheat crop in three years in 2010 as big global supplies weigh down prices and steer more acres to other crops, the Canadian Wheat Board said Jan. 15. In its first market outlook of 2010, the board, one of the world’s biggest grain marketers, also said the outlook for
Cereals, News

CWB Boosts Churchill Volumes

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The Canadian Wheat Board this year shipped its second-highest volume of wheat in 32 years through the Port of Churchill, Manitoba, the grain marketer said Oct. 29. The board shipped 529,000 tonnes of wheat and durum through the northern Canadian port, up from 425,000 tonnes a year earlier, and the second-highest tonnage since 1977. The

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