Wheat Markets Up 50 Per Cent – for Aug. 12, 2010

The hottest run-up in the wheat market since 2008 prompted the Canadian Wheat Board to issue a special market advisory last week to alert farmers to potential pricing opportunities. David Boyes, the board’s commodity risk manager, said two market fundamentals – severe drought in Russia and excessive moisture cutting production in Western Canada – were

Wheat Markets Up 50 Per Cent – for Aug. 12, 2010

The hottest run-up in the wheat market since 2008 prompted the Canadian Wheat Board to issue a special market advisory last week to alert farmers to potential pricing opportunities. David Boyes, the board’s commodity risk manager, said two market fundamentals – severe drought in Russia and excessive moisture cutting production in Western Canada – were


Too Close For Comfort

JOHN MORRISS EDITORIAL DIRECTOR YouTube is a wonderful thing. Need to know how to change the battery for your car’s key fob, or figure out the bass line for a Beatles tune? Look no further. You can watch cute cat videos all afternoon and still look like you’re working. And now you can watch Prime

The Wedge Effect

If recent reports are any indication, a growing number of consumers want to feel good about the food they eat – even if it means paying more for it. For example, a recent Context Marketing survey of consumers in the San Francisco Bay area found that 70 per cent of the respondents said they would

The Jacksons – for Feb. 4, 2010

Looking out the dining room window of the Jackson house, Andrew could just see the ghostly outline of the big old elm tree on the front lawn. The north wind howled around the eaves and corners of the house and the blowing snow obscured the rest of the yard and the outbuildings. Andrew heard footsteps


Blastoff Fireworks Success Lit By Savvy Use Of Technology

In less than a decade, their business has exploded from a family hobby into Canada’s largest wholesale fireworks distributor. The Beausejour brothers who launched it say technology lit its fuse. Blastoff Fireworks, owned by young entrepreneurs Matt Bialek, 27 and Ryan Bialek, 21, is housed in a 40,000-sq.-ft. distribution centre at Selkirk employing 10 staff

Coaxing cows to eat weeds

It was a photograph of a cow eating a dead rabbit that inspired land management specialist Kathy Voth to consider new possibilities for controlling invasive weeds. Voth, who started out her career in “land management” 11 years ago using brush-eating goats as a fire-prevention tool, turned her attention to cows in 2004. During the Manitoba