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Viterra To Resell Esso Fuels On Canadian Prairies

REUTERS / Viterra Inc., Canada s biggest grain handler, said on Nov. 8 that it has bought Imperial Oil s commercial and farm fuels distribution business in the Prairie provinces. Viterra, which already owns the country s biggest network of country grain elevators, along with port terminals, processing plants and farm retail outlets, will resell
Cereals, News

German Grain Trader Toepfer Expands Into Canadian Special Crops

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

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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

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

Harper Orders Wheat Board Out Of The Way

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Canada s Conservative government will pass legislation very soon to end the Canadian Wheat Board s monopoly on marketing western wheat and barley for milling or export, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Oct. 7, strongly warning the board to get out of the way. Harper, in Regina, Saskatchewan for the announcement for construction of Western
News, Oilseeds

Canadian Canola Gains U.S. Approval

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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
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In Brief… – for Sep. 8, 2011

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Get on the list:Door-to-door enumeration for the October 4 provincial general election is complete, but voters who were not home when the enumerator called can still have their names added to the voters’ list, Elections Manitoba says in a release. Prospective voters can contact their returning office to arrange for an election official to visit
Cereals, Crops, News

S – for Sep. 1, 2011

outh Australia ports shipped a record high 6.8 million tonnes of grain from last October through July, Canadian grain handler Viterra Inc. said Aug. 23. Viterra owns 95 per cent of South Australia’s storage and handling network. South Australia farmers reaped their biggest crops on record in 2010-11, which created bottlenecks at times as they
Cereals, News

Bunge Eyes Canada After Wheat Monopoly

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

Wheat Board Should Get On With New Role: Richardson

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The Canadian Wheat Board should not receive ongoing government help after its grain-marketing monopoly ends, but needs to quickly plan for a new role, the head of Richardson International Limited, Canada’s second-largest grain handler, said on July 7. Canada’s Conservative government, which holds a majority of seats in the House of Commons, plans to pass

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