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Sep. 4, 2007 at 9:57 am CDT

North West Terminal (NWT) has received the funding required to begin construction of a 25 million-litre-per-year fuel-ethanol facility at Unity, Sask., at the end of this month. The estimated total project cost is $42 million. A share offering by NWT raised $13.65 million, for which an aggregate of 2,424,625 class […]

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Aug. 30, 2007 at 4:18 pm CDT

The Canadian Wheat Board is confident that the federal Conservative government’s appeal of the July 31 court decision which upheld the single-desk marketing of Western Canadian barley will fail. “The judge’s ruling was very clear…any changes to barley or wheat marketing must be made by the process set out in […]

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Aug. 30, 2007 at 2:27 pm CDT

Cool temperatures along with steady precipitation resulted in the canola harvest being slowed across most regions of Western Canada, according to the Canola Council of Canada’s (CCC) crop briefing for the period ended August 29. Swathing was just getting started in parts of west-central Alberta and the Peace region, whereas […]

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