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Canola: Up Or Down?

By Don Bousquet December 24, 2009

For three-times-daily market reports from Don Bousquet and RNI, visit “ICE Futures Canada updates” at www.manitobacooperator.ca Grain and oi l s e e d prices at ICE Futures Canada in Winnipeg in the week ended Dec. 18 were lower, with the canola market pressured down by the losses in the U. S. soyoil market and

Crops, Pulses

Alliance Purchases Parent Seed Farms

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff December 17, 2009

Alliance Grain Traders Inc. (AGTI) has announced the purchase of Parent Seed Farms, a longtime merchandiser and processor of dry edible beans in St. Joseph, Manitoba. Alliance is a large pulse-trading organization with 14 facilities in Canada, the U. S., Turkey and Australia, and owner of SaskCan Pulse Trading, based in Regina. Alliance also recently

Cereals, News, Oilseeds

CashPlus Additional Payments Attacked And Defended

By Allan Dawson December 17, 2009

Farmers who used the Canadian Wheat Board’s (CWB) CashPlus program to sell malting barley last crop year were shortchanged, according to the Malting Industry Association of Canada (MIAC). However, the board says the allegation doesn’t take all the facts into account and is based on a faulty assumption – that CashPlus barley was sold for

Cereals, Grain Markets, Oilseeds

Bigger Crops, Canola Prices Rise

By Don Bousquet December 10, 2009

For three-times-daily market reports from Don Bousquet and RNI, visit “ICE Futures Canada updates” at www.manitobacooperator.ca Grain and oi l s e e d prices at ICE Futures Canada in Winnipeg in the week ended Dec. 4 were modestly higher despite weakness in the normally dominant U. S. markets. Canola was supported by strong crusher

Crops

Bagging Wet Corn A Viable Option

By J. W. Schroeder December 10, 2009

Avoiding high-moisture corn is not an option in 2009 for many producers. Whether your corn is going to feed or the market, the major challenge is storage. But not only moisture will chal lenge the storage and receiving of grain; substantial mould proliferation has farmers and elevator managers alike very concerned. Because of this year’s

Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets

Are Higher Wheat Prices Real?

By Don Bousquet December 3, 2009

For three-times-daily market reports from Don Bousquet and RNI, visit “ICE Futures Canada updates” at www.manitobacooperator.ca Grain and oi l s e e d prices at ICE Futures Canada in Winnipeg closed the week ended Nov. 27 fractionally higher. Gains in the U. S. markets, friendly technical signals and slower farmer selling gave some support

Cereals, Crops, News

IGC Raises Wheat Crop Estimate, Lowers Maize

December 3, 2009

The International Grains Council raised its estimate for world wheat production in 2009-10 but forecast a drop in plantings for next year’s crop Nov. 26. The IGC, in a monthly report, put world wheat production at 668.3 million tonnes, up 1.5 million from its previous forecast although still below the prior season’s record 686.8 million.

Crops, Oilseeds

Manitoba Harvest Wraps Up

By Resource News International December 3, 2009

Manitoba farmers are nearly finished this year’s harvest, with only a few corn and sunflower fields left, according to the last crop report from Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives for the season. Warm and sunny weather allowed the majority of acres to be harvested across the province, said the Nov. 23 report. Soybean yields

Cereals, Country Crossroads

Barley Flour Makes Fantastic Tortillas

By Western Grains Research Foundation December 3, 2009

If it takes a proven health claim to gain consumer acceptance of barley-based food products, then that’s what Nancy Ames plans to do. Ames, a cereal grain research scientist with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada in Winnipeg, used funding from the Western Grains Research Foundation’s Endowment Fund to develop new food uses for barley. “It started

Crops, News

App Application Deadlines Extended

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff November 26, 2009

Manitoba corn, sunflower, soybean, edible bean and pulse growers with crops still on the field have been granted extensions on their deadlines to apply under the 2009 advance payments program (APP). Producers who still have unharvested crop that’s insured by crop insurance will now have more time to apply for pre-production advances and also to

Daily Network News

Health Canada stops sales of coccidiosis medication Deccox on procedural issue

Canadian cattle herd sees first annual increase since 2018

Olymel parent company sees increased earnings in 2025

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