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MF Global Bankruptcy Weighs Down Canola Market

By Phil Franz-Warkentin November 10, 2011

ICE Futures Canada canola contracts were lower in most months during the week ended Nov. 4, with the continued chaos in global financial markets front and centre in the day-to-day canola trade as well. So far canola has managed to hold relatively steady given the increasing uncertainty in the world economy, but those outside factors

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, Crops

Churchill Exports Higher Than Average

November 10, 2011

The Canadian Wheat Board exported a higher-than-average 507,000 tonnes of wheat and durum through Manitoba s northern port of Churchill in 2011. Sixteen ocean vessels loaded wheat or durum this year, bound for Europe, Africa or Latin America, but this year s tonnage was smaller than last year s 600,000 tonnes. The wheat board is

Cereals, Crops

Black Sea Wheat Displacing European And U.S. Sales Competition

By Aleksandras Budrys November 10, 2011

Top Black Sea wheat producers will flood markets for the entire 2011-12 crop year, giving rivals little respite from high volumes of cheap grain, with Russia dominating in the first half of the season and Ukraine and Kazakhstan in the second. Massive Black Sea exports were pressur ing European wheat shipments their main competitor but

Cereals, News

Ritz Thirsty For Barley Freedom Beer

By Allan Dawson November 10, 2011

When legislation Bill C-18 passes to kill the wheat board s monopoly, Gerry Ritz says he ll celebrate with a glass of barley freedom beer. It might even be made with malt from Rahr Malting in Alix, Alta., where the minister of agriculture visited Nov. 1 to celebrate the company s announcement to spend $6

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Ritz Announces Supply Chain Logistics Forum

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff November 10, 2011

Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz has announc ed a new industry forum to exchange views and work to improve the logistical system for farmers, the handling industry and customers. The Crop Logistics Working Group was announced in an address to the Inland Terminal Association of Canada (ITAC) Nov. 7. The Crop Logistics Working Group will be

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Conservatives Racing To Dec. 5 On CWB Bill

By Alex Binkley November 10, 2011

Few noticed the irony as the Conservatives used their majority to shove its legislation to end the Canadian Wheat Board s marketing monopoly through a special Commons committee in three evenings. The committee met Nov. 1-3 in an ornate chamber, once known as the Reading Room, across the Hall of Honour from the Railway Committee

Cereals, Opinion

Keep Things In Perspective

November 10, 2011

Manitoba s largest general farm policy organization has taken its share of lumps lately, a reflection of just how acrimonious the debate of the day in farm policy has proven to be. To their credit, members of the Keystone Agricultural Producers general council tackled some difficult discussions at their recent meeting with jocularity after an

Cereals, Opinion

OUR HISTORY: August, 1926

November 10, 2011

The August, 1926 of The Scoop Shovel,the Co-operator spredecessor, featured an advertisement for the Midget Marvel Flour Mill. It read: The mill that is creating a revolution on the Flour Milling Industry putting the milling of wheat back into the small towns. This Mill makes the finest grade of flour from locally grown wheat. A

Cereals, Crops, Opinion

Producer Cars Face Obsolescence

By Donna Welke November 10, 2011

As many of you know, every time you ship a producer car, you are using The Canada Grain Act, which allows an alternative system or safety valve method of shipping grains. This means, if and only if there is someone at port position prepared to sell it, then you can ship any grain in a

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle, hog futures rise on first WASDE since September

U.S. export sales include only small soybean business to China

U.S. corn and soybean yields revised down by USDA

Tag Archives Wheat

MF Global Bankruptcy Weighs Down Canola Market

Canada Farm Terminals See Unsure Fate After Wheat Board

Churchill Exports Higher Than Average

Black Sea Wheat Displacing European And U.S. Sales Competition

Ritz Thirsty For Barley Freedom Beer

Ritz Announces Supply Chain Logistics Forum

Conservatives Racing To Dec. 5 On CWB Bill

Keep Things In Perspective

OUR HISTORY: August, 1926

Producer Cars Face Obsolescence

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