by Breanne Baker | Dec 3, 2009 | Articles, Kevin Hursh
The Canadian Wheat Board’s partnership with WeatherBug has evolved into a service that will be very useful to producers. This private weather network, linking on-farm monitoring stations was launched two years ago. I’ve checked it out on-line a couple of times and I...
by Breanne Baker | Dec 2, 2009 | Articles, Kevin Hursh
The Canadian Renewable Fuels Association has released survey results showing strong support for alternative fuels. I’m sometimes skeptical about how survey questions are presented and how the results are interpreted, but in this case, the question wording has been...
by Breanne Baker | Dec 1, 2009 | Articles, Kevin Hursh
Multi-lateral trade talks through the WTO appear to be going nowhere, but progress on a bilateral deal between Canada and the European Union has so far exceeded expectations. The chief trade negotiator for Canada is Steve Verheul. He points out that the EU is Canada’s...
by Breanne Baker | Nov 30, 2009 | Articles, Kevin Hursh
There have long been complaints about how farmers in other countries, most notably the United States, have access to commercial products not allowed in Canada. Some of those disallowed products are used on food commodities that are imported into Canada. Ontario M.P....
by Breanne Baker | Nov 27, 2009 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
The price slide in Canadian Wheat Board grains has halted in the latest Pool Return Outlook. In fact, wheat values are up by $1 to $10 a tonne and feed barley values are up by $7 a tonne. Durum and malting barley are unchanged from last month. No. 1 spring wheat with...
by Breanne Baker | Nov 26, 2009 | Articles, Kevin Hursh
A potential strike is looming at CN Rail and if that happens, grain transportation will be back in the news. Over the past year, grain transportation has not been in the public eye much because rail service has actually been better than usual. Mark Hemmes of Quorum...
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