Reading Time: 2 minutes The Canadian Wheat Board has brought back its storage program to keep high-end milling wheat stored in reserve, but will expand it this year to run through all grain elevators across the Prairies. The CWB first introduced its Wheat Storage Program in 2007, with a limited sign-up and a July 31 sign-up deadline, running only […] Read more
CWB broadens wheat storage program
Legislation backs Manitoba “inland port”
Reading Time: 2 minutes The Manitoba government has introduced a legislative package to set up a company overseeing development of an “inland port” based in northwestern Winnipeg and the neighbouring R.M. of Rosser. CentrePort Canada is to be a private-sector focused corporation that would build on Manitoba’s “well-established” network of air, rail, sea and trucking routes, the province said […] Read more
Malting barley institute names new chief
Reading Time: < 1 minute The Canadian Wheat Board’s former head of malting barley technical services and market development is the new president and CEO of the Brewing and Malting Barley Research Institute. Michael Brophy was named to the post at the end of August, institute chairman Ed McCallum said Wednesday in a release. The Winnipeg-based institute evaluates new malting […] Read more
Feds sued over CWB election spending changes
Reading Time: < 1 minute A Prairie farmers’ group says it has filed a lawsuit against the federal government over its removal of a spending cap on third-party campaigning in upcoming Canadian Wheat Board director elections. In a release Wednesday, the group Friends of the CWB said it plans to argue in court that the federal government’s recent amendment to […] Read more
Merger boosts Viterra’s Q3 ledger
Reading Time: 2 minutes Strong ag industry fundamentals have put a shine on Viterra’s third-quarter financial results as Canada’s largest grain company passes its first fiscal wedding anniversary. Viterra, which formed in late May 2007 from the merger of top Prairie grain handlers Saskatchewan Wheat Pool and Agricore United (AU), on Wednesday posted net earnings of $166.7 million on […] Read more
B.C. launches farm assessment consultations
Reading Time: 2 minutes Two months of public consultations on the assessment of farm properties in British Columbia start next week in the community where the topic first became a sore spot among rural property owners. The provincial Farm Assessment Review Panel starts its provincewide run of meetings in Saanich on Sept. 16 at the Poplar Room at the […] Read more
Railways hail proposed diesel tax cut
Reading Time: 2 minutes The federal Conservatives’ pledge Tuesday to cut Ottawa’s excise tax on diesel fuel drew kudos from railways as a move that will help exporters compete internationally. Party leader Stephen Harper said a re-elected Conservative government will cut the federal excise tax on diesel from four cents per litre down to its 1985-86 level of two […] Read more
Viterra opens office in Singapore
Reading Time: < 1 minute Canada’s largest grain company now has an office for its vice-president for Asia to go to. Viterra announced Tuesday that it has opened a new office in Singapore that will serve as the Regina-based grain firm’s Asian headquarters and manage trading activity in the region. The office “will also pursue new value-added opportunities and relationships […] Read more
Alta. reorganizes agriculture programming
Reading Time: 2 minutes Alberta’s provincial agriculture department has “strategically restructured” its program and service delivery, putting more emphasis on support services for agribusinesses and livestock producers. “When I announced the Alberta Livestock and Meat Strategy (ALMS) earlier this summer, I also asked for an internal department review to help the livestock industry with its transformation and revitalization,” Agriculture […] Read more
Rain stalls harvests all across Sask., Man.
Reading Time: 2 minutes Wet and cool weather delayed or halted harvest in all areas of Manitoba and Saskatchewan last week, the two provinces said in their weekly crop reports. Just two per cent of Saskatchewan’s 2008 crop was harvested last week, bringing the total up to 22 per cent, well below the 2003-07 average of 49 per cent […] Read more
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