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Brisk Grain Movement Coming

By Allan Dawson March 18, 2010

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

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Canada, World To Grow Less Wheat

By Rod Nickel February 25, 2010

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

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World’s Farmers To Grow Less Wheat In 2010

By Rod Nickel January 21, 2010

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

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CWB Boosts Churchill Volumes

By Rod Nickel November 5, 2009

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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Briefs continued – for Aug. 20, 2009

August 20, 2009

More wheat: The U. S. Agriculture Department bumped up its forecast for the world wheat crop this month, thanks to strong crops in India, the United States, China, Ukraine and most of Europe, but said drought has trimmed prospects for Russia, Argentina and Canada. World wheat production for 2009-10 was forecast at 659.29 million tonnes,

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Ports Of Churchill, Halifax Working Together

By Allan Dawson March 19, 2009

A new agreement between the ports of Churchill and Halifax creates another option for exporting grain from the Prairies. Ever since Churchill started exporting grain in the 1930s, almost all of it sailed directly to the importing country. Now Churchill and Halifax will explore transshipments, with grain from Manitoba’s only seaport delivered to the terminal

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CWB total export outlook unchanged

January 15, 2009

The Canadian Wheat Board said Jan. 7 it expects to export 12.7 million tonnes of wheat when the crop year ends July 31, up 12 per cent from the 2007-08 crop year, due to a large harvest. The CWB also expects to export 3.35 million tonnes of durum compared with 3.1 million tonnes last year.

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CWB eyes bigger exports

By Roberta Rampton October 30, 2008

The Canadian Wheat Board expects to export about 14 per cent more grain in the year ending July 31, 2009, than initially forecast because of a better-than-expected harvest, its chief operating officer said Oct. 22. The global financial crisis has pressured grain prices as funds and other investors bailed out of commodities, but, overall, world

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