Winter Wheat & Production Tips

Three ways to sample

If you don’t want any nasty surprises later, make sure your  sample is a good representative of the grain you plan to sell 

By Andrea Hilderman July 7, 2014

Taking representative samples is a critical step to understanding the quality or other characteristics of anything that is tested in some way. Rarely, if ever, is an entire organism, crop or object tested for quality, consistency, disease, protein, etc. A sample is generally taken and the results of the tests on the sample are presumed to […] Read more

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Brazil to open added tariff-free import quota for wheat

By GFM Network News June 19, 2014

Brasilia | Reuters — The Brazilian government plans to reduce to zero the 10 per cent import tariff applied to non-Mercosur wheat for a quota of up to one million tonnes through Aug. 15, a source in the government with knowledge of the plan said Wednesday. Brazil, regularly one of the world’s leading importers of […] Read more

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Stripe rust on winter wheat being reported near Olds, Alta.

By Mike Harding June 6, 2014

Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development – On June 2, Drs. Krishan Kumar and Kequan Xi saw heavy infections of stripe rust on winter wheat in the cereal breeding nursery at Olds. They did not see the disease in adjacent spring wheat plots. Additionally, there were some stripe rust pustules in winter wheat in the breeding plots and […] Read more

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Egypt raises price paid to local wheat farmers

By GFM Network News May 13, 2014

Cairo | Reuters — Egypt, the world’s biggest wheat importer, will pay local wheat farmers 500 Egyptian pounds (US$70.87) per Egyptian ardeb, the equivalent of around 150 kg, according to a statement posted on the finance ministry’s official Facebook page. Last year the government raised the fixed price it pays for local wheat to 420 […] Read more

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Prairie winter wheat in good shape, analyst says

By GFM Network News May 13, 2014

CNS Canada — Winter wheat crops across Western Canada are generally in good shape, according to a CWB analyst, although the lateness of the spring thaw will also push back the harvest in many areas. “The winter wheat is in reasonably good shape,” said Bruce Burnett, a CWB weather and crops specialist. Emergence and moisture […] Read more

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U.S. wheat futures still rising, but ‘getting tired’

By GFM Network News May 5, 2014

CNS Canada –– All three U.S. futures markets climbed higher over the past week, rising to some of their best levels of the year. There is some more room to the upside, but further gains may be short-lived, according to an analyst. “Wheat is getting tired,” said Randy Martinson of Progressive Ag at Fargo, N.D. […] Read more

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Prairie winter wheat looking good, but damage still possible

By GFM Network News April 15, 2014

CNS Canada — Most winter wheat crops seeded in Western Canada last fall seem to be in good condition so far this spring — but they’re not in the clear yet. “Not all of the winter wheat is out from the snow cover yet,” said Bruce Burnett, crop and weather specialist with CWB in Winnipeg. […] Read more

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Weather, Ukraine boost U.S. wheat futures

By GFM Network News April 14, 2014

CNS Canada — U.S. wheat futures rose sharply on Monday and could continue to increase due to cold weather in the southern Plains and the political unrest in Ukraine. “We had this (cold) in the weather forecast,” said Austin Damiani, a U.S. wheat analyst from Frontier Futures in Minneapolis. “The forecasts are calling for even […] Read more

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U.S. wheat futures entering neutral territory

By GFM Network News February 20, 2014

CNS Canada — All three U.S. wheat futures markets have posted good gains in recent weeks, after touching contract lows at the end of January. With improvements of 80 cents to a dollar per bushel off of the lows for Minneapolis, Kansas City and Chicago futures, wheat is now in neutral territory from both a […] Read more

Mexico-based global bakery giant Grupo Bimbo, whose mascot Osito Bimbo is shown here at a company event in Mexico in 2011, has reached an all-cash deal to buy Canada Bread for $1.83 billion. (GrupoBimbo.com)

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Mexican bakery giant to buy Canada Bread

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News February 12, 2014

The reported frontrunner to buy Canada Bread is now officially the Canadian bakery firm’s buyer of choice. Mexico’s Grupo Bimbo on Wednesday announced a cash deal to buy all shares of Canada Bread Co. for $72 per share, or about $1.83 billion, accruing mainly to Canada Bread’s 90 per cent owner, meat processor Maple Leaf […] Read more

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