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COURTS | PURATONE
Creditors appeal decision to set aside cash for farmers FCC, BMO are secured creditors | Lenders oppose having money set aside in case farmers win lawsuit BY ROBERT ARNASON BRANDON BUREAU
DATA COLLECTION | STATISTICS CANADA
Stats Can may stop Sept. survey Crop reporting | Fall survey could be axed if satellite-generated yield estimate proves valid BY SEAN PRATT SASKATOON NEWSROOM
This could be the last September that Canadian growers are surveyed about their crop yields. Statistics Canada is contemplating
replacing its September crop production survey with a mathematical model that uses satellite data to produce production estimates. This year’s survey will be compared to the satellite-based yield results generated by the Crop Condition
Assessment Program (CCAP). If the model proves accurate, a substitution will happen in 2014. “The plan will be to cancel only the September field crops survey and replace the survey results with modelled results based on the satellite
data,” Bill Parsons, chief of Statistics Canada’s Agriculture Commodities Section, said in an email to The Western Producer. “The remainder of the Field Crops STATS CAN SEPT. SURVEY, PAGE 2
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The Olde Tyme Harvest for Hunger held in Langenburg, Sask., achieved a world record Aug. 24 for the largest threshing bee ever staged. Participants operated 41 threshing machines simultaneously to break the old Guinness World Record of 29. About 5,000 spectators and 400 volunteers turned out. See more photos on page 27. | WILLIAM DEKAY PHOTO
Farm Credit Canada and the Bank of Montreal are appealing a court decision that would help Manitoba farmers recover losses from unpaid grain deliveries. This spring, a judge responsible for dispersing money from Puratone, a Manitoba hog company that entered creditor protection last fall, decided that affected farmers should have a chance to recoup their losses. Instead of distributing all of Puratone’s cash assets to secured creditors, primarily FCC and BMO, the judge set aside $903,250.50 until a group of farmers, who sold feed grain to Puratone last August and September, proceed with litigation against the company’s directors and officers.