October 6, 2011 - The Western Producer

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2011

VOL. 89 | NO. 40 | $3.75

HARVEST 2011

SERVING WESTERN CANADIAN FARM FAMILIES SINCE 1923

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Our annual photo feature records this year’s harvest. It begins on page 20.

A combine is parked underneath a spectacular northern lights display near Buffalo Lakes, east of LaGlace, Alta. Also called aurora borealis, the northern lights are caused when electrically charged particles from the sun collide with gas particles in the Earth’s atmosphere. This image was taken using a fish-eye lens and a time lapse setting. | RANDY VANDERVEEN PHOTO

Canola association gets the nod CWB stripped of powers | CCGA to administer cash advances for all board grains on April 1 BY ED WHITE WINNIPEG BUREAU

Farmers applying for federal cash advances will now do one-stop shopping for virtually all their crops. Agriculture minister Gerry Ritz has stripped the Canadian Wheat Board of its role administering cash advances for board grains and given

it to the Canadian Canola Growers Association. “Anyone who’s done an advance through CCGA, that’ll be the process we offer for wheat, durum and barley,” said general manager Rick White. “It’ll be seamless. It’ll be just adding these commodities to the process.” The canola association began han-

dling 2012-13 cash advances for winter wheat Oct. 1 and will add spring wheat, durum and barley April 1. The wheat board will continue to administer the 2011-12 programs. The board has administered cash advances for board grains since 1957, but in recent years the canola association has become the administra-

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