Insights and Stories on Cereals

As Italy seeks pasta labels, Canada worries about durum sales

May. 10, 2017 at 6:04 pm CDT

Winnipeg/Rome | Reuters — Italy has this week formally asked the European Commission to allow it to require country-of-origin labels on pasta sold there, raising alarms for Canadian durum wheat exporters who fear the move will dampen sales. Italian Agriculture Minister Maurizio Martina said on Twitter on Monday that Italy […]

Weather woes buoy U.S. wheat futures

May. 3, 2017 at 4:14 pm CDT

By Jade Markus

Fear of feed expected to keep malt barley acres low

Apr. 18, 2017 at 8:06 pm CDT

By Jade Markus

Post tucks into British breakfast cereal Weetabix

Apr. 18, 2017 at 7:43 pm CDT

By adam-jourdan Lauren Hirsch Martinne Geller

Flour recalls widen in E. coli probe

Apr. 17, 2017 at 8:02 pm CDT

By Staff

Mixed conditions loom over Manitoba winter cereals

Apr. 12, 2017 at 5:57 pm CDT

CNS Canada — A mix of freezing and warming conditions put Manitoba’s winter cereals in uncertain condition, following months of promising weather, according to the head of an industry group. Manitoba’s winter wheat and fall rye crops had ample snow cover throughout the winter, which supported crops, but more recently, […]

By Jade Markus

Refuge sought for West’s midge-tolerant SWS wheats

Apr. 6, 2017 at 1:45 pm CDT

Refuge seed and other stewardship measures will be needed for the “majority” of soft white spring (SWS) wheat varieties grown on the Prairies, to protect the midge-tolerant trait many of them have now been found to have. That’s the assessment of seed marketing agency SeCan, which sells at least three […]

By Staff

Growing craft beer sector thirsty for local malt

Apr. 4, 2017 at 5:39 pm CDT

CNS Canada — Craft breweries are a growing subsector of the Canadian beer industry, but the increased variety of local drink options are not necessarily 100 per cent homegrown, as a lack of domestically produced specialty malts forces brewers to look far afield to meet their needs. “We get our […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Ukraine farmers examine Canadian agriculture co-ops

Mar. 31, 2017 at 2:30 pm CDT

A delegation of Ukrainian farmers were visiting agriculture co-ops this week, looking to see if the approach can benefit their grain businesses in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. In Ontario they visited Agris Co-op and Great Lakes Grain in Chatham, Agrico fertilizer storage outside London, an Agromart retail operation in Wellburn, and […]

By Staff

Robin Hood flour pulled in E. coli probe

Mar. 29, 2017 at 7:19 pm CDT

Federal health officials investigating over two dozen cases of E. coli poisoning across Canada are warning consumers to get rid of a certain batch of Robin Hood flour. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) on Tuesday issued a food recall warning for Robin Hood All-Purpose Flour, Original, distributed in British […]

By Staff