THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 2012
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GRAIN SHIPPING | RESTRICTIONS
Cross border grain trade may see hurdles U.S. wheat varieties not registered in Canada would be graded as feed BY ED WHITE WINNIPEG BUREAU
VALLEY CITY, N.D. — Farmers in northern North Dakota expect to see more Canadian licence plates at local elevators come Aug. 1. But they aren’t sure if Canadian farmers will be seeing many American licence plates in the post-CWB monopoly era. “What if it’s cheaper to railroad it through Canada?” farmer Greg Svenningsen said on his eastern North Dakota farm. “One thing farmers worry about is that all this grain might move south and flood our markets, but can we move it north? Are there going to be constraints on that?” The answer is probably yes, but it’s something many in the prairie grain industry, including farm groups, are trying to avoid.
A field day was held June 12 at Colin and Gavin Greenwald’s farm south of Leader, Sask., to show various openers produced by VW Manufacturing. About 20 producers showed up to eat burgers and check out the equipment. We’ll have more coverage in next week’s Production section. | WILLIAM
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Rain stokes fears, but 2011 long way off
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Heavy rain, disease | While 2012 is better for many, some areas are seeing extreme weather
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WEATHER | WET FIELDS
BY KAREN BRIERE REGINA BUREAU
The flood of 2011 was just hitting its stride a year ago this week. Heavy mid-June rainfall on top of already saturated soil was hammering Saskatchewan and Manitoba particularly hard.
Reservoirs couldn’t contain the flows on the Souris River and thousands of homes downstream of Estevan, Sask., would be damaged or destroyed, including many in Minot, North Dakota, before the water subsided. The Qu’Appelle River and lakes system also flooded extensively.
What hadn’t been seeded wasn’t going to be and weed control became a chief concern for those who could get on the land. The situation this year is better for most. The number of unseeded acres will be lower than the eight million not planted in Saskatchewan last year,
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which came after eight to 10 million acres weren’t seeded the previous year. Saskatchewan Crop Insurance Corp. paid out a record $551 million for unseeded acreage claims in those two years. SEE RAIN SPARKS FEAR, PAGE 2
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