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Railways cut producer car sites

CP Rail says the points it dropped weren’t being used, but KAP says farmers need more options, not less

By Allan Dawson February 26, 2014

The railways recently cut 19 producer car loading sites across the West even though farmers are using producer cars more than ever as they struggle to get a record crop to market. “If anything we need more producer car sites, not less,” Keystone Agricultural Producers’ (KAP) president Doug Chorney said in an interview. “KAP’s policy

Cereals, Opinion

The Brand X elevator and corporate control of the food supply

By Les Mcewan May 17, 2012

The potential for contracted acres to be linked to herbicide and fertilizer purchases as well as point of delivery was already there

When Manitoba Pool Elevators and the Alberta Wheat Pool amalgamated in 1998 to become Agricore, I joked at the local watering hole that we really needed to invent an elevator sign that was Velcro backed. Even then, it was apparent that there was a lot of work involved in rebranding trade names on very tall

Cereals, Crops, News

Fair treatment for Western farmers began 100 years ago

By Ron Friesen April 7, 2012

It was more than a century ago but bitter conflict between farmers and the early western Canadian grain industry still resonates in the childhood memories of old-timers like Harvey English. “It was highway robbery. That’s what it was in those days,” says English, 94. “They were just stealing everything off the farmer that they could

Cereals, Crops, News

Richardson International’s rise to share top grain spot

By Allan Dawson March 29, 2012

The pending multibillion-dollar sale of Viterra demonstrates the value of patient capital and private ownership, says Richardson International president Curt Vossen. Last week publicly traded Viterra, Canada’s largest grain company, announced it was selling to the world’s No. 1 diversified commodities trader, Swiss-based Glencore, for $16.1 billion. But in a move believed aimed at getting

Cereals, Crops, News

Farmers fear consolidation, not foreigners, in Viterra bid

By Rod Nickel March 23, 2012

Reuters / For most of the past year, western Canadian farmers have braced for the rush of competition that will follow the end of the Canadian Wheat Board’s 69-year-long monopoly on grain marketing in August. Now, they’re preparing for the possibility of seeing less than expected. The fertile region’s biggest grain handler, Viterra, said March

Cereals, Crops, News

Git ‘r done Grain Growers urges

By Allan Dawson March 14, 2012

The Canadian Wheat Board will offer new crop-pricing options soon, spokesperson Maureen Fitzhenry said in an interview Feb. 22, but she declined to specify a date, nor say when the board expects to finalize agreements with companies to handle grain on its behalf. “It’s still our hope that we’ll be able to do something very

Cereals, News

German Grain Trader Toepfer Expands Into Canadian Special Crops

November 10, 2011

Germany s largest grain trading house, Alfred C. Toepfer International, said Nov. 3 it is taking over two Canadian trading companies, giving it its first processing facilities in Canada. Toepfer, whose majority shareholder is Archer Daniels Midland said it has bought Western Grain Trade Ltd. and Western Grain Cleaning &Processing Ltd., which are Saskatchewan-based processors

Cereals, Crops

Canada Farm Terminals See Unsure Fate After Wheat Board

By Rod Nickel November 10, 2011

With only old, wooden elevators to buy crops around Unity, Saskatchewan, farmers like Mervin Slater banded together in 1993 to sell shares and build a modern grain terminal. The towering concrete and steel facility is one of nearly a dozen farmer-run grain terminals to spring up on the Canadian Prairies since the 1990s, offering farmers

Cereals, Grain Markets

Viterra Says CWB Can Thrive In Open Market

October 27, 2011

Winnipeg / reuters Canada s biggest grain handler, Viterra Inc., is willing to work with the Canadian Wheat Board in an open-market system and thinks the board can thrive without its marketing monopoly, chief executive Mayo Schmidt said Oct. 21. If the wheat board chooses to engage with industry to frame out a relationship and

Cereals, News

In Brief… – for Apr. 23, 2009

April 23, 2009

Group seeks provincial grass: A grassroots committee is running an online poll of Manitobans to find a nominee for Manitoba’s provincial grass emblem. “Let’s celebrate Manitoba’s native prairie grasslands by declaring a provincial grass emblem for Manitoba,” the Manitoba Provincial Grass Campaign Committee says on its website at www.manitobagrass.ca. As of April 18, big bluestem

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures turn lower

U.S. grains: Soy futures dip as traders await China sales; corn, wheat sag

Seeds Canada announces Dan Wright as new CEO

Tag Archives Saskatchewan Wheat Pool

Railways cut producer car sites

The Brand X elevator and corporate control of the food supply

Fair treatment for Western farmers began 100 years ago

Richardson International’s rise to share top grain spot

Farmers fear consolidation, not foreigners, in Viterra bid

Git ‘r done Grain Growers urges

German Grain Trader Toepfer Expands Into Canadian Special Crops

Canada Farm Terminals See Unsure Fate After Wheat Board

Viterra Says CWB Can Thrive In Open Market

In Brief… – for Apr. 23, 2009

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