Reading Time: 2 minutes The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency approved the use of Canadian crops such as canola and corn in U.S. biofuels Sept. 29, a move that lifted Canadian canola prices and may help the U.S. meet its ambitious targets for biofuels. The EPA s designation of Canadian crops as a renewable biomass will allow U.S. biofuel makers […] Read more
U.S. Approves Canada Crops For Biodiesel Use
Sask. won’t ban canola from fields with clubroot
Saskatchewan will not force its first two farms infested with clubroot disease to stop growing canola for a number of years, as some Alberta municipalities have done, a provincial official said Wednesday. Two farmers in north-central Saskatchewan found symptoms of clubroot, which cuts crop yields, on their plants this autumn. The government in Saskatchewan, Canada’s […] Read more
Canadian crops approved for U.S. biodiesel
The U.S. federal Environmental Protection Agency approved the use of Canadian crops such as canola and corn in U.S. biofuels Thursday, in a move that lifted Canadian canola prices and may help the U.S. meet its ambitious targets for biofuels. The EPA’s designation of Canadian crops as a renewable biomass will allow U.S. biofuel makers […] Read more
CWB Sees More Wheat And Durum This Year
Reading Time: 2 minutes The Canadian Wheat Board raised its 2011/12 outlook for wheat and barley on Friday, as a warm, dry summer looks to produce bigger harvests than a year ago. Spring floods left an estimated six million acres unplanted across the Prairies, but a hot summer with timely rains has helped crops in Alberta and most of […] Read more
Prairies to grow more wheat, barley: CWB
The Canadian Wheat Board raised its 2011-12 outlook for wheat and barley on Friday, as a warm, dry summer looks to produce bigger harvests than a year ago. Spring floods left an estimated six million acres unplanted across the Prairies, but a hot summer with timely rains has helped crops in Alberta and most of […] Read more
Wheat board asks Ottawa to pay shutdown costs
The Canadian Wheat Board has asked the federal government to pay “hundreds of millions of dollars” in penalties for cancelled grain contracts and other expenses that it says would arise if it shuts down next year when its marketing monopoly ends. If Ottawa removes the board’s monopoly to buy and sell Western Canada’s wheat, durum […] Read more
Wheat Board Should Get On With New Role: Richardson
Reading Time: 2 minutes The Canadian Wheat Board should not receive ongoing government help after its grain-marketing monopoly ends, but needs to quickly plan for a new role, the head of Richardson International Limited, Canada’s second-largest grain handler, said on July 7. “What they really need to do is get on with it,” said Richardson president Curt Vossen in […] Read more
Ottawa eyes regulating access to grain handlers
The federal government is considering a request by the Canadian Wheat Board for regulated access to private grain handlers once the board loses its monopoly, Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz said Friday — but he added that such access may not be enforceable. Canada’s Conservative government, which holds a majority of seats in the House of […] Read more
Canada Step Closer To South Korea Beef Access
Reading Time: 2 minutes Canada and South Korea moved closer to a deal that would partially restore Canadian beef access and end South Korea’s eight-year-old ban, Canada’s agriculture and trade ministers said last Monday. South Korea is the last major beef-importing country to agree to lower its restrictions on Canadian beef since a 2003 outbreak of mad-cow disease (BSE) […] Read more
ICE Canada To Trade Wheat As Monopoly Ends
Reading Time: 2 minutes ICE Futures Canada will launch spring wheat and durum contracts early next year to take advantage of Ottawa’s planned dismantling of the Canadian Wheat Board’s grain monopoly, its chief operating officer said on May 19. The spring wheat contract will compete for liquidity with one offered by the Minneapolis Grain Exchange, but will also complement […] Read more
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