U. S. Crops Still Look Big

For three-times-daily market reports from Don Bousquet and RNI, visit “ICE Futures Canada updates” at www.manitobacooperator.ca Grain and oilseed prices at ICE Futures Canada in Winnipeg closed the week ended Nov. 6 mixed. Canola was pressured down by weakness in the U. S. soybean market and firmness in the Canadian dollar. The advancing harvest in

Distillers Grain Set To Ride Ethanol Coattails

Demand for distill-ers grain, a byproduct of distilling corn into ethanol, will continue to grow domestically and abroad as livestock producers turn to the feed as a cheaper alternative to corn, analysts said. And with the ethanol industry gearing up for a better year in 2010 after the financial crisis of 2008 triggered by corn


SUNOPTA RELEASE

“Our pea fibre is a natural, allergen-free functional fibre with proven health benefits that fits well into the SunOpta fibre portfolio…” Best Cooking Pulses of Portage la Prairie will be supplying pea fibre to the U. S.-based SunOpta Ingredients Group, which is expanding its portfolio of functional fibres to include organic and conventional pea fibre.

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Canola Stages An Impressive Comeback

For three-times-daily market reports from Don Bousquet and RNI, visit “ICE Futures Canada updates” at www.manitobacooperator.ca Gr a i n and oilseed prices at ICE Futures Canada in Winnipeg closed the week ended Oct. 30 mixed with canola higher and barley lower. Canola prices climbed back after their collapse on the news that China would

Corn Harvest In 2009 — Or Will It Be 2010?

As fall progresses, many farmers are starting to consider overwintering their corn until next spring – a purely economical decision that is hard to debate. This article will focus on considerations before harvest, how to deal with high-moisture corn after harvest, and a few key points to ponder if you are considering leaving your corn


Canada Wheat Board To Export Less Grain This Season

The Canadian Wheat Board plans to export nine per cent less grain in the year ending July 31, 2010, its chief operating officer said Oct. 30, as poor early growing season weather made for smaller wheat and barley crops than a year ago. The crops recovered from a potentially disastrous start with record-hot September weather

Send Recipes Or Recipe Requests To: – for Nov. 5, 2009

RECIPE SWAP We’ve been talking lately about pasta as a popular durum wheat-based food, but what about couscous? Well, what about couscous, you may say. Most have heard of it, but few of us are familiar with it. It surprises me that neither couscous, nor its cousin bulgur, has not become more popular. It is,


Say Thank You To The “Spaghetti Farmers”

The CWB has launched a national contest to celebrate World Pasta Day on October 25, encouraging children to send a big thank you to Prairie “spaghetti farmers” for producing the main ingredient in pasta, an unfailing kids’ favourite. “Pasta is big business for farmers in Western Canada, where we produce more durum wheat than anywhere

Canada Reaps Average Wheat Crop

Western Canadian farmers are struggling to finish their latest harvest in several years, with 10 per cent of the spring wheat crop lying in fields too wet to combine, a Canadian Wheat Board official said Oct. 20. The wet, cold October has been a cruel ending to an unpredictable growing season, especially for farmers in