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Millions For Churchill

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The Port of Churchill is getting millions of federal dollars to help it adjust to an open market starting Aug. 1, 2012. Eighty-five per cent of the total traffic, and almost all of the grain exported through Prairie Canada s only seaport, comes from the Canadian Wheat Board. Last year it exported 659,000 tonnes of
Cereals, Crops

Legislation To End CWB Monopoly Being Tabled This Week

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Legislation to end the Canadian Wheat Board s monopoly was to be tabled in the House of Commons Oct. 18, but the board is fighting back and is urging farmers to fight too. (Agriculture) Minister Ritz and Prime Minister Harper would like you to believe that this is a done deal, wheat board chair Allen
Cereals, Opinion

The Grain Trade Must Step Up

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Throughout its history, this newspaper s editorial position has been that Prairie farmers are better off economically by selling wheat and barley through the Canadian Wheat Board. That has not changed, but since the board s end seems inevitable, we have recently focused not on saying don t do it but rather on emphasizing just
Cereals, Opinion

Letters – for Oct. 20, 2011

We welcome readers comments on issues that have been covered in the Manitoba Co-operator.In most cases we cannot accept open letters or copies of letters which have been sent to several publications. Letters are subject to editing for length or taste. We suggest a maximum of about 300 words. Please forward letters to ManitobaCo-operator, 1666DublinAve.,Winnipeg,
Cereals, News

Ottawa Accused Of Revising Wheat Board History

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Regardless of how western farmers feel about the Canadian Wheat Board s (CWB) single desk today, the vast majority strongly supported it when it was created in 1943 and for years after, says Duke University history professor, John Herd Thompson. The Manitoba-born academic accuses Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz of trying
Cereals, Grain Markets, Oilseeds

Canola Futures Recovering On Fresh Chinese Demand

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Dwayne Klassen CNSA Canola futures on the ICE Futures Canada trading platform managed a rally during the week ended Oct. 14, recovering some of the losses experienced in the previous reporting periods. Confirmation of fresh Chinese demand for Canadian canola helped to generate some of the price strength, as did the reluctance of Prairie producers
Cereals, Grain Markets

Argentine Wheat And Corn Benefit From Rains

Buenos Aires/Reuters Rain over the last 10 days in Argentina s central grain area revitalized parched wheat fields and helped farmers with their corn sowing, but dry weather could return, a forecaster said Monday. This season got off to a rough start as planting was slowed by dry soils, but heavy rainfall last week allowed
Cereals, Livestock, Poultry

U.S. Hog, Poultry Firms To Extend Use Of Feed Wheat

chicago/reuters The surprise drop in U.S. corn feed demand this summer may be only the beginning of a yearlong reduction as chicken and hog producers break a long-held aversion to blending more wheat into rations. What initially began as a summer fling sparked by an unprecedented premium for corn prices over wheat has turned into
Cereals, Crops, News

Kazakhstan Back In The Grain Export Business

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Kazakhstan s state-owned grain trader will return to the export market this season, shipping up to 1.5 million tonnes of what promises to be the country s biggest post- Soviet grain crop, the head of the company said. Beibitkhan Kabdrakhmanov, chairman of the management board at the Food Contract Corporat ion, forecast that Kazakhstan would
Cereals, News

Farmers Fight Farmers In Canadian Wheat Board Brawl

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Mostly it has been farmers fighting the government over the Canadian Wheat Board s future, now it s farmer against farmer. Three western Manitoba producers paid for an inserted advertisement in the Manitoba Co-operatorlast week accusing the Keystone Agriculture Producers (KAP) of not working to save the Canadian Wheat Board and suggesting KAP members request

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