Reading Time: 3 minutes The Canadian Wheat Board is being sued for more than $50 million by a Saskatchewan farm that has its delivery contract cancelled for delivering an ineligible variety of red spring wheat. But industry officials say the lawsuit by Hudye Farms Inc. and two associated companies is really a test of the four-year-old grain variety declaration […] Read more
Variety Declarations Put To Test
Monsanto Invests Big In Canadian Canola
Reading Time: 3 minutes Derek Penner was an infant when canola, a healthier derivative of rapeseed, was first developed in 1974 at the University of Manitoba in collaboration with Agriculture Canada. Last month, the youthful president of Monsanto Canada helped open Monsanto’s new $12 million canola breeding centre near the University of Manitoba. “It embodies Monsanto’s very best in […] Read more
Monsanto Monitoring Attitudes On GM Wheat
Reading Time: 2 minutes The roadblock to rolling out genetically modified wheat isn’t consumer resistance in Europe or Japan. It’s ambivalence among Canadian farmers, according to Monsanto Canada president Derek Penner. “My attitude is there hasn’t been much shift towards GMO wheat (in Canada),” Penner told reporters Nov. 23 at the opening of Monsanto’s new Canada Breeding Centre at […] Read more
Regulating Railways Finds Rare Consensus
Reading Time: 2 minutes The Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) and Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association (WCWGA) can agree on one thing – more regulation is needed to improve railway service for farm commodities. The Grain Growers of Canada, Canadian Canola Growers Association and the Western Grain Elevators Association say the same. All have sent that message to a panel […] Read more
Monsanto Discontinues Shared-Risk Program
Reading Time: 3 minutes Monsanto’s shared-risk program, which over the last 11 seasons refunded almost $40 million to western Canadian canola growers who lost Roundup Ready canola crops early in the growing season, has been scrapped. “The long and short of it, even though the grower wouldn’t see this, the cost of the program obviously outweighed the benefits,” said […] Read more
Man. to rebate hail premiums on drowned-out acres
A group of farmers will get half their Manitoba Agricultural Services Corp. (MASC) hail insurance premium refunded on acres enrolled in the Canada-Manitoba Excess Moisture Assistance Program (CMEMAP). “Early in October our (MASC) board agreed we could give back half of the premium for those drowned-out acres,” Craig Thomson, MASC’s vice-president of insurance operations, said […] Read more
Ag Committee Hears Supports, Critics Of Bill C-474 – for Oct. 25, 2010
Reading Time: 2 minutes Farmers welcome new crop varieties, but they also want regulations to ensure those crops don’t ruin markets, a forage seed grower told the House of Commons’ agriculture committee during a hearing on Bill C-474 broadcast live on the Internet Oct. 5. “I talk to farmers every day,” said Gregory, president of Interlake Forage Seeds Inc., […] Read more
Nexera Hybrids Available Next Spring – for Oct. 25, 2010
Reading Time: 2 minutes STAFF |INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA They produce healthy oil for the consumer, but they don’t have healthy yields for the farmer. At least, that’s the coffee shop knock against Nexera canola varieties. That’s a myth, company officials told Canadian farm reporters during a media tour of Dow AgroSciences world headquarters here Sept. 21. “Agronomically our varieties continue […] Read more
Soybeans Fighting Canola To Get Markets Back – for Oct. 25, 2010
Reading Time: 2 minutes staff |indianapolis, indiana Soybeans are fighting back. Soybean oil is still the most consumed vegetable oil in North America, but it’s been losing ground to canola, which is regarded as the healthiest vegetable oil because it contains just seven per cent saturated fat. Part of canola’s gains have resulted from the development of high-stability, omega-9 […] Read more
Seed Ban Increases Oil And Meal Exports – for Oct. 25, 2010
Reading Time: 2 minutes China’s partial ban on canola seed imports from Canada last year was a boon to value-added exports of oil and meal to that country. While exports of canola seed to China fell in 2009 after it declared it would no longer accept Canadian canola unless it was certified free of the fungal disease blackleg, exports […] Read more
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