Reading Time: 2 minutes Processors not only want farmers to grow canola but their variety. That s the especially true for Dow AgroSciences, which says supply can t keep up with demand for its healthy, high stability (omega-9) Nexera canola oil. The company is asking farmers to switch all their canola acres to Nexera in 2012. In the past […] Read more
Frito Lay Boosts Fortunes Of Nexera Canola
After Three Decades, The “Cinderella Crop” Continues To Impress
Reading Time: 3 minutes Canola continues to be the darling of the vegetable oil market and the industry is urging Prairie farmers to keep cranking up production. Western Canadian farmers have painted the Prairies yellow with canola, but processors say they want more. The Canola Council of Canada wants farmers to produce 15 million tonnes of canola by 2015. […] Read more
Ritz Responsible For Higher Cattle Prices: MP
Reading Time: < 1 minute Prince Albert MP Randy Hoback praised fellow Saskatchewan MP and minister of agriculture, Gerry Ritz for his hard work promoting markets for Canadian farmers, while speaking at the Canola Council of Canada’s annual meeting here July 27. “I think if you look at beef markets in particular and the price of cattle where they were […] Read more
CWB Preparing To Wind Down Its Operations
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) will be “wound down” if the federal government delivers on its promise to end the board’s single-desk marketing authority next Aug. 1, says CWB chair Allen Oberg. Ottawa, not farmers, should cover the millions of dollars in costs, including employee severances, pensions and delivery contact defaults, the board said in […] Read more
Canola Tops For Farm Cash Receipts In 2010
Reading Time: 2 minutes Canola continues to be the darling of cash crops, grossing Canadian farmers $5.6 billion in 2010 – more than any other crop, according to Statistics Canada. “Canola has become the most profitable crop for Prairie growers,” Canola Council of Canada president JoAnne Buth told the council’s 44th annual meeting here July 28. “That’s why they […] Read more
Canada Looking Good To American Farm Expert
Reading Time: 2 minutes A leading American scholar came north bearing good news for Canadian farmers – expect a levelling of the farm-subsidy playing field and new opportunities to profitably feed a hungry planet. The Canola Council of Canada brought Robert L. Thompson to its annual meeting here and the scholar from Johns Hopkins University delivered a hopeful message […] Read more
Falcon wheat to remain a Red Winter, for now
CDC Falcon, Manitoba’s most popular winter wheat, remains a milling wheat in the Canada Western Red Winter wheat (CWRW) class until at least Aug. 1, 2013 — and possibly longer. Todd Hyra, SeCan’s business manager for Western Canada, says some farmers are confused about future changes to the CWRW class. CDC Falcon is still a […] Read more
CWB, Crow Fights Both Alberta Driven
Reading Time: 3 minutes Support for the Canadian Wheat Board’s single desk continues to erode, and as in the battle to kill the Crow Rate, Alberta is leading the charge, says pollster David Herle. Both went on for years, eventually wearing down farmer resistance. “These are both Alberta agendas,” said Herle, principal partner in the Gandalf Group, which surveys […] Read more
Canadian Wheat Board Is Working On Open-Market Model
Reading Time: 2 minutes The Canadian Wheat Board is working on a model for converting into an open-market grain company, but for this “new entity” to survive the federal government must make major concessions, including assuming CWB employees’ pension liability, says chair Allen Oberg. “It’s our view that it’s the government’s responsibility to pick up that tab and it […] Read more
CWB working on open-market model: MCO
The Canadian Wheat Board is already working on a model for converting the single-desk seller of western barley and wheat into an open-market grain company, the Manitoba Co-operator reports. But for this “new entity” to survive the federal government must make major concessions, including assuming CWB employees’ pension liability, CWB chair Allen Oberg said in […] Read more
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