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Rain too late to bring back yields: CWB crop tour

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Eastern Saskatchewan — no recovery seen By Jade Markus, Commodity News Service Canada Grenfell, Sask. — As the CWB crop tour sees an increasing number of wheat fields suffering from dryness earlier this season, it brings the question: will rain help? According to farmers, the answer is likely “no.” Fields of wheat in the south […] Read more
Torch River’s million-dollar loading facility has been running since June 2014. There are four bins, holding 14,000 bushels each.
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Torch River facility up and running

Starting short-line railways and local grain handling facilities is hard work, with a good pay-off

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Setting up a short-line railway takes a good deal of patience and determination, but Saskatchewan farmers are finding it’s a worthwhile endeavour. “I think at the end of the day this is definitely going to be well worth it to our farmers,” said Wayne Bacon, farmer and president of Northern Lights Rail. Northern Lights Rail […] Read more
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Crops varied in eastern Sask: CWB tour

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Carlyle, Sask. — The effect of this years dry weather is becoming increasingly apparent as the CWB crop tour moves into Saskatchewan. Lack of moisture is visible in southwestern Manitoba and southeastern Saskatchewan, the CWB tour found. However, dryness hasn’t been all bad in some areas — participants from the 2014 crop tour recall a […] Read more
Canola, Markets

CWB pegs canola production at 12.18 mln tonnes

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Commodity news Service Canada — CWB is estimating the Canadian canola crop will produce 12.18 million tonnes in 2015/16 (Aug/Jul), according to a supply and demand table released via the Market Research Services Twitter account on Wednesday. The projection is below a previous estimate from the company of 12.60 to 13.00 million tonnes, which was […] Read more
Crops, Markets, Reuters, Spring Wheat

Spring wheat yields puny in dry Alberta: CWB tour

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Lethbridge/Reuters — Spring wheat yields measured less than half of last year’s results in drought-stricken southeastern Alberta, but were on track to set a record high in southern Manitoba, during a Canadian crop tour that saw the results of wildly contrasting weather. The tour organized by CWB Market Research Services is travelling on three routes […] Read more
Crops, Markets, Reuters

Manitoba crops decline moving west: CWB tour

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Brandon, Man. — As this year’s CWB crop tour moves west through Manitoba, crops have started looking thinner as the area has been drier than in the eastern part of the province.. Canola around Killarney doesn’t look good compared to its eastern Manitoba counterparts. Canola in western Manitoba is still flowering. The later bloom is […] Read more
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Saskatchewan farm groups talk transportation

Transport review won't be complete until after the election

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Saskatoon — Grain transportation should be an election issue, says Cam Goff, chair of the Saskatchewan Barley Development Commission, which hosted the Farmers’ Forum on Grain Transportation here Monday along with the Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan and the Saskatchewan Wheat Development Commission. The forum coincided with Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz’s announcement in Winnipeg of […] Read more

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