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Port group to close as CWB monopoly ends

By Rod Nickel February 15, 2012

The 103-year-old organization that co-ordinates shipments through Canada’s two biggest grain-shipping ports is winding down, saying it may not be needed once the Canadian Wheat Board loses its monopoly. The Winnipeg-based Canadian Ports Clearance Association (CPCA) will cease operations this summer on Aug. 31, one month after the wheat board loses control over Western Canada’s

Crops, News

Richardson buys independent terminal in Alberta

February 16, 2012

Staff / Canada’s second-biggest grain handler has made another play to expand its handle in northwestern Alberta’s Peace region, this time buying from an independent player. Richardson International announced Wednesday it will buy the Great Northern Grain terminal and crop input business at Nampa, Alta., about 26 km south of Peace River, for an undisclosed

Country Crossroads, Hogs, Oilseeds

Breakfast of champions

By Darrell Nesbitt January 27, 2012

The bodies and minds of students at two area communities were nourished when the famous Made in Manitoba Breakfast program was featured, connecting students to where that food came from. The breakfast and agriculture education program is one of a number run by Agriculture in the Classroom-Manitoba Inc. (AITC-M), a non-profit organization supported by individuals

Crops

Food Prices — For Now

October 13, 2011

briefs milan/reuters World food prices are likely to remain on a downward trend for some time, after falling in September again, due to increased cereals output and weaker demand, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. But global economic uncertainty and still tight cereal reserves would add volatility to prices, said the agency

News, Oilseeds

Canadian Canola Gains U.S. Approval

By Rod Nickel October 6, 2011

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency approved the use of Canadian crops such as canola and corn in U.S. biofuels Sept. 29, a move that lifted Canadian canola prices and may help the U.S. meet its ambitious targets for biofuels. The EPA s designation of Canadian crops as a renewable biomass will allow U.S. biofuel makers

Crops, Oilseeds

Canola Continues To Be The Golden Crop

August 25, 2011

Canola continues to be the darling of the vegetable oil market – and the industry is urging Prairie farmers to keep cranking up production. Western Canadian farmers have painted the Prairies yellow with canola, but processors say they want more. The Canola Council of Canada wants farmers to produce 15 million tonnes of canola by

Crops, Oilseeds

Frito Lay Boosts Fortunes Of Nexera Canola

August 25, 2011

Processors not only want farmers to grow canola – but their variety. That’s especially true for Dow AgroSciences, which says supply can’t keep up with demand for its healthy, high-stability (omega-9) Nexera canola oil. The company is asking farmers to switch all their canola acres to Nexera in 2012. “In the past we used to

Cereals, News

Bunge Eyes Canada After Wheat Monopoly

July 28, 2011

U.S. grain-trading giant Bunge Ltd. plans to expand its presence in Western Canada once the Canadian Wheat Board’s marketing monopoly is ended. “The most efficient system is a free market, a complete free market,” Bunge chief executive Alberto Weisser told theGlobe and Mail newspaper. The Conservative government says it will pass legislation this autumn to

Cereals, News

Who’s Responsible For A Viable Open-Market CWB?

By Allan Dawson June 9, 2011

Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz says the Canadian Wheat Board can survive in an open market, but it’s up to the board and the industry to figure out how. Ritz arrived for a half-hour visit at the board May 30 – his first-ever foray into its downtown offices – to inform officials there what he had

Cereals, Crops

Cargill Calls For Orderly End To Orderly Marketing

By Rod Nickel May 19, 2011

The Canadian government should give the grain industry at least six months to adjust before ending the Canadian Wheat Board’s grain monopoly, the chief executive of Cargill’s Canadian subsidiary said May 11. A good time for the change, which would allow Western Canada’s farmers to sell their wheat and barley to anyone they choose instead

Daily Network News

Southern California honeybees show resistance to varroa mites

Pulse Weekly: SaskPulse optimistic despite input, crop price concerns

Canadian aquaculture should be classed as agriculture, industry groups say

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