Durum Archives - Page 26 of 32

Niche market wheats are coming soon

Reduced-gluten wheat just the first of several geared to consumer tastes

By Lee Hart May 24, 2018

While your everyday, even high quality, hard red spring wheat isn’t doing so well in the marketplace right now, a biotech company in Davis, California, is launching a new reduced-gluten HRSW. Arcadia Biosciences also has other wheats with distinctive health-benefit traits in its pipeline. Arcadia is hopeful that introducing these non-GMO traits into wheat will […] Read more

A wall in the medina (ancient city quarter) of Rabat, Morocco’s capital. (Cia.gov)

Crops, Reuters, Spring Wheat

Morocco gives millers incentives to use domestic wheat

By GFM Network News May 11, 2018

Rabat | Reuters — Morocco on Friday announced a set of incentives for local millers to opt for domestic wheat instead of imports. They include a flat rate subsidy of 10 dirhams (C$1.37) per 100 kilograms of soft wheat to millers using local wheat, the ministry of agriculture said in a statement. The benefits also […] Read more

Crops, Markets

Canola stocks comfortable, eyes on new crop

By GFM Network News May 11, 2018

CNS Canada — Canadian canola stocks are rather large heading into the new growing season, but attention now is firmly on new-crop production. Statistics Canada on Friday pegged canola supplies in the country as of March 31 at 9.1 million tonnes, the second-largest on record for that time of year and about 1.1 million tonnes […] Read more

Combine to Customer participants take a look at the equipment in the pulse mill during a tour led by  Shelley Lagasse, a pulse and special crops technologist with Cigi.

Cereals, Features

Getting from combine to customer

This Cigi program is a great way for farmers to learn more about ag markets

By Lisa Guenther April 25, 2018

At the end of Heather Johnson’s first day of work for the Canadian International Grains Institute (Cigi), her colleagues rolled out a fresh rack of bread for everyone to enjoy. “Boy, have I landed in the right place,” she said to herself that day. Johnson, Cigi’s director of communications, was speaking to Combine to Customer […] Read more

Technologist Shelley Lagasse talks incorporating pulse flour into food products such as pasta during a tour of Cigi’s pulse mill. What makes pulses desirable to a buyer depends on the end use and the market, Lagasse said. North American buyers will need to get a neutral flavour. “In other markets it might not be as much of an issue. For example, in India people consume pulses regularly. They’re used to the different flavours.”

Features, Pulses

Adding pulses to pasta

Cigi food researchers are finding ways to make your produce more appealing

By Lisa Guenther April 13, 2018

Anyone who enjoyed Play-Doh as a child will appreciate watching Paul Ebbinghaus make pasta at the Canadian International Grains Institute’s (Cigi’s) pasta plant, on the main floor of their downtown Winnipeg office. But the international grain markets are not child’s play. The pasta plant is one part of Cigi’s strategy to keep Canadian durum competitive. […] Read more

Yvonne Supeene and Yulia Borsuk, baking technical specialist, show how the loaf shaping process can affect crumb structure in bread.

Cereals, Features

A tale of two (wheat) markets

As markets change, exporters need to know how end buyers are using our products

By Lisa Guenther April 9, 2018

Historically, Japan has been the biggest market for Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS) wheat, outside of Canada’s domestic market. But that changed in 2017, when Indonesia edged ahead of Japan. With a population estimated to be over 260 million, the growth potential for the Indonesian market is huge. Still, Japan has been a loyal customer of Canadian wheat as well, said Yvonne Supeene, […] Read more

Cereals, Crops, Features

No short-term fix for fusarium heard at Durum Summit

Farmers looking for fusarium-resistant durum seed will have to keep on waiting

By Leeann Minogue February 27, 2018

When farmers packed a meeting hall in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, for the 2018 Durum Summit, they were hoping to find a solution to their fusarium problems. Unfortunately, there’s nothing new on the horizon for the next few years. Curtis Pozniak, a wheat breeder and geneticist at the Crop Development Centre in Saskatoon, says they are […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Spring Wheat, Winter Wheat

Prairie wheat bids mixed while U.S. futures rise

By GFM Network News February 16, 2018

CNS Canada — Wheat bids in Western Canada were mixed for the week ended Thursday, while U.S. wheat futures rose. Depending on the location, average Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS, 13.5 per cent protein) wheat prices were mixed in Western Canada with some unchanged and others rising by $1-$2, according to price quotes from a […] Read more

The Canada 150 emblem in a durum field. (Agr.gc.ca)

Crops, Markets, Spring Wheat

Steady to lower durum market expected

By GFM Network News January 12, 2018

CNS Canada — Larger-than-expected production, a seasonal slowdown in demand and looming Italian country-of-origin-labeling regulations all loom over the Canadian durum market, with steady to lower prices anticipated over the next few months. Italian COOL regulations are set to come into effect in mid-February and require pasta makers in the country to segregate foreign durum, […] Read more

Montreal-area processor Grisspasta, whose facilities are shown here, is one of three firms alleging dumping of pasta processed in Turkey into the Canadian market. (Grisspasta.com)

Cereals, Crops

Canada to probe claims of Turkish pasta dumping

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News January 1, 2018

Three Canadian makers of dry wheat pasta have got their wish for a probe into whether competing products from Turkey are being dumped into the Canadian market. The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) announced Tuesday it has launched an investigation into whether certain pasta products originating in or exported from Turkey are being sold at […] Read more

GFM Network News

U.S. livestock: Lean hogs tick down on supply numbers, year-end positioning

U.S. grains: Chicago grains and oilseeds fall as Black Sea, China headlines assessed

Soy trading firms to abandon Amazon protection pact in Brazil

Tag Archives Durum