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Cereals, Crops

Minogue: Wanna start a cereal seed company?

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It’s clear from where the Prairies’ cereal growers’ groups sit that it’s time for farmers to get more involved in wheat and barley breeding — and they have a new report in hand suggesting ways to do so. Options in the report, from the newly-formed Wheat and Barley Variety Working Group, range from improving the
railway grain cars
Crops

CN Rail over, CP under 2013-14 Maximum Revenue Entitlement

The railways moved 38.76 million tonnes of western grain to export ports — the most ever since 2000-01


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It cost western Canadian grain farmers, on average, $33.69 a tonne to ship grain by rail during the 2013-14 crop year, down 30 cents a tonne from the crop year before. And, as was the case in 2012-13, one railway was slightly over and the other slightly under the statutory Maximum Revenue Entitlement (MRE), also
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Crops

CN overshoots 2013-14 grain handling revenue cap

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The Western Grains Research Foundation will get a $4.98 million gift this season from Canadian National Railway, but not out of holiday spirit per se. The Canadian Transportation Agency on Thursday ruled CN, during the 2013-14 crop year, exceeded its maximum allowable revenue from Prairie grain handling by $4,981,915, above its previously set “entitlement” of
Petri dish of grain under a microscope.
Cereals, News

WGRF asking farmers big funding questions

Where do farmers want to go with funding research and how do they want to get there?

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The Western Grains Research Foundation (WGRF), the farmer-run conduit for most of western grain farmers’ investment in agricultural research, wants farmers’ input on future funding and the foundation’s role. “Breeding is a long-term process,” WGRF executive director Garth Patterson told Winter Cereals Manitoba’s annual meeting March 12. “You have to look 10 or 15 years
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WGRF Approves $3.8-Million Breeding Tools Initiative

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Western Grains Research Foundation (WGRF) has approved an Endowment Fund Directed Research Program fund of $3.8 million over the next five years for an initiative to develop genomic tools, increase genomic capacity, and enhance the use of doubled haploid in cereal crop-breeding programs. Most Canadian breeding programs already utilize some doubled haploid and genomic technology.
Crops

Phytotron Garners WGRF Support

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The University of Saskatchewan has received a $1-million investment from Western Grains Research Foundation (WGRF) for the College of Agriculture and Bioresources’ Phytotron Renewal Project. The Phytotron is an indispensable tool in plant and soil science research and teaching in the College of Agriculture and Bioresources. The controlled environment plant growth facility enables three full
Cereals, News

Railway Overpayments Remain In Limbo

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“What can I do to leave a legacy to Western Canadian agriculture? This is it.” – Ed Rempel Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz says the federal government won’t consider any action on a request to refund railway overpayments to farmers until a court case in concluded. “The money has been put in a trust while the
Cereals, News

Top varieties supported through WGRF

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“Farmers should give themselves a big pat on the back.” – Lanette Kuchenski The 2008 Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) survey results show varieties that have been farmer supported through Western Grains Research Foundation’s (WGRF) wheat and barley checkoffs top the list in almost all categories. Under the Canadian Western Red Spring class the top three

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