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<blockquote data-quote="klein" data-source="post: 750301" data-attributes="member: 23950"><p>This is an article from 1965, couldn't seem to find one from the 70's and 80's, but they do exist.</p><p>Canada was making a fortune from Russia, and so were our farmers :</p><p> </p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000">For the next twelve months, railway and port facilities in Canada will be humming at top capacity, and even then they will be pressed to keep up with the traffic. That traffic is wheat.</span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000">Last week Canada announced the sale of 187 million bu. to Russia, an order second only in history to Russia's fantastic 1963 purchase of 239 million bu.</span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000">The sale raised Russia's total 1965 order for Canadian wheat to 222 mil lion bu., all of which will be delivered between now and August 1966. At a press conference in Winnipeg, Trade Minister Mitchell Sharp and William McNamara, head of the Canadian</span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000">Wheat Board, said the Russians were paying the top-grade price of $1.93 a bu., or almost $450 million. Coupled with other sales to Red China, Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria, the new deal guarantees a market for Canada's entire 1965 wheat crop !</span></p><p></p><p> </p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000">Read more: <a href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,841971,00.html#ixzz0sqw9Li40" target="_blank">http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,841971,00.html#ixzz0sqw9Li40</a></span></p><p></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000">Needless to say, wheat is no longer as scarce as it once was.</span></p> <p style="text-align: left"></p> <p style="text-align: left">Peace thru Hockey :</p> <p style="text-align: left">One thing every Canadian will never forget is the 1972 Hockey Series with Russia !</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="klein, post: 750301, member: 23950"] This is an article from 1965, couldn't seem to find one from the 70's and 80's, but they do exist. Canada was making a fortune from Russia, and so were our farmers : [LEFT][COLOR=#000000]For the next twelve months, railway and port facilities in Canada will be humming at top capacity, and even then they will be pressed to keep up with the traffic. That traffic is wheat.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]Last week Canada announced the sale of 187 million bu. to Russia, an order second only in history to Russia's fantastic 1963 purchase of 239 million bu.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]The sale raised Russia's total 1965 order for Canadian wheat to 222 mil lion bu., all of which will be delivered between now and August 1966. At a press conference in Winnipeg, Trade Minister Mitchell Sharp and William McNamara, head of the Canadian[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]Wheat Board, said the Russians were paying the top-grade price of $1.93 a bu., or almost $450 million. Coupled with other sales to Red China, Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria, the new deal guarantees a market for Canada's entire 1965 wheat crop ![/COLOR][/LEFT] [LEFT][COLOR=#000000]Read more: [URL]http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,841971,00.html#ixzz0sqw9Li40[/URL][/COLOR][/LEFT] [LEFT][COLOR=#000000]Needless to say, wheat is no longer as scarce as it once was.[/COLOR] Peace thru Hockey : One thing every Canadian will never forget is the 1972 Hockey Series with Russia ![/LEFT] [/QUOTE]
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