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by Harry Siemens Does anyone suggest a new name for the Canadian Wheat Board A Regina business executive has been named chairman of the new, five-member Canadian Wheat Board. Bruce Johnson, who replaces ousted chairman Allen Oberg, a farmer, had served as a wheat board director since 2006...

By Shane Zeppelin Yamaha took everyone by surprise when they introduced the Phazer in 2008. It was radically different and had a much different ergonomic feel than any other sled, including the REV. We liked it, but the following year?s version was much better. The Phazer has been refined into...

7 quarts plain popped popcorn 2 cups dry roasted peanuts (optional) 2 cups brown sugar 1/2 cup light corn syrup 1 teaspoon salt 1 cup margarine 1/2 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon vanilla extract Directions Place the popped popcorn into two shallow greased...

Balgonie, Saskatchewan- Western Canadian wheat and barley farmers finally have the freedom to market their wheat or barley as they choose, whether that is with a grain company, processor or the Canadian Wheat Board, following the Royal Assent of the Marketing Freedom for Grain Farmers Act...

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You'll need the following: four large eggs, two cups of dried fruit, a teaspoon of baking soda, a teaspoon of salt, a cup of brown sugar, lemon juice, nuts, and a bottle or two of rum. Before you start, sample the rum to check for quality. If it's good, let's get started. Take a large bowl...

The Conservative majority in Canada's Senate, and Canada's governor general, have passed the bill ordering sweeping changes to the marketing of Western Canada's wheat and barley. Bill C-18, Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz's Marketing Freedom for Grain Farmers Act, passed third and final reading...

Man those look good, I think I'll have to try them, it just looks like a little bit of work so I'll have to make sure I've got time.

A Group 2 herbicide to handle wild oats, green foxtail and various broadleaf weeds in Prairie spring wheat and durum has been reformulated with a "built-in safener." Tokyo-based Arysta LifeScience last week picked up registration for its flucarbazone product Everest 2.0, for post-emergence use...

The chairman of the Canadian Wheat Board says its members have not given up their fight against new legislation that ends the agency's monopoly powers. Allen Oberg said Tuesday that he and other farmer-elected directors of the board will announce their next moves at a news conference set for...

by Steven Musil Devices running Microsoft's Window Phone are susceptible to a denial-of-service attack that disables their messaging function, a tipster has told WinRumors.com. A malicious SMS sent to a Windows Phone 7.5 device will force it to reboot and lock down the messaging hub (see video...

The CWB Monitor – The courts aren’t always right by Harry Siemens John De Pape - By now we all know the results of the CWB court challenges and that Judge Douglas Campbell ruled in favour of the Friends of the CWB and the CWB. Some of the comments in the ruling demand attention: “…when...

by Harry Siemens HS: Funny but true - In an unprecedented move, the farmers of Ontario and Quebec have joined in the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) monopoly. Herb Sniffor, from Grasslands Ontario stated “We are in total unity with our western brothers who are being forced by the government to...

This looks absolutely amazing - I think I'll have make this Christmas morning or maybe even Christmas Eve.

A dog is truly man's best friend. If you don't believe it, just try this experiment. Put your dog and your wife in the trunk of the car for an hour. When you open the trunk, who is really happy to see you!?

A husband was trying to prove to his wife that women talk more than men. He showed her a study which indicated that men use about 10,000 words per day, whereas women use 20,000 words per day. His wife thought about this for a while. She then told her husband that women use twice as many words as...

Canada's Senate is expected to vote Monday to halt debate on the bill to shut down the Canadian Wheat Board's single marketing desk for Prairie wheat and barley. The Senate's order paper for Monday (Dec. 12) includes a motion from the Conservatives calling for Speaker Noel Kinsella to halt...

A farmer gets sent to jail, and his wife is trying to hold the farm together until her husband can get out. She's not, however, very good at farm work, so she writes a letter to him in jail: "Dear sweetheart, I want to plant the potatoes. When is the best time to do it?" The farmer writes back...

An expected court clash over how much potash PotashCorp can have from a U.S. rival's Saskatchewan mine has been settled without trial. Minnesota-based Mosaic Co. and Saskatoon fertilizer giant PotashCorp on Thursday announced they've settled a months-long dispute over the end point of a 1978...

Danny had recently passed his driving test and decided to ask his clergyman father if there was any chance of him getting a car for Christmas, which was yet some months away. 'Okay.' said his father 'I tell you what I'll do. If you can get your 'A' level grades up to 'A's and 'B's, study your...