Prairie wheat and barley growers saw payments of about $5.5 billion for their deliveries to the Canadian Wheat Board during the 2010-11 crop year. The CWB released its annual report for 2010-11 Feb. 21 showing $6.071 billion in combined pool revenue, with $3.792 billion paid out to pool participants, another $1.709 billion paid out through
CWB books $6 billion in revenues for 2010-11
Court rules against ex-wheat board directors
Former Canadian Wheat Board directors may appeal a Manitoba’s Court of Queens Bench ruling that rejected their bid to delay implementation of the federal legislation removing the board’s monopoly as of Aug. 1. “We think there are a number of areas where the judge erred and we’re considering an appeal,” Bill Toews, one of the
B.C. special crops firm buys Sask. processing plants
A new British Columbia special crops marketing firm has bought a foothold in the special crops and pulse processing business in western Saskatchewan. ILTA Grain, formed in Surrey by former managers of specialty crop export firm Finora, announced Friday it’s bought four handling and processing plants owned by Parkland Grain/Pulse of North Battleford, Sask., for
Outgoing Man. cattlemen’s chief Major Jay Fox, 32
Funeral services are to be held Wednesday at Eddystone, Man. for one of Manitoba’s Outstanding Young Farmers and a former president of Manitoba Beef Producers. Major Jay Fox died Friday in Winnipeg from injuries he suffered after being pinned Thursday evening by a tractor’s front-end loader bucket on his farm at Eddystone, about 75 km
Federal judge rips Ritz’s plans for CWB reform
Updated, Dec. 7 — Sweeping legislative changes to end the Canadian Wheat Board’s single marketing desk won’t be slowing down for a Federal Court ruling Wednesday that found those changes to be "an affront to the rule of law." One of the two court declarations requested Tuesday by a farmer group, Friends of the CWB,
West considers shared livestock price insurance plan
While still well back from the study stage, Canada’s four western provinces are thinking out loud about sharing or standardizing a price insurance plan for cattle and hog producers. Alberta, which in the last two years has set up its own Cattle Price Insurance (CPIP) and Hog Price Insurance (HPIP) programs, has said it’s interested
Editors’ Picks: Six killed in Kansas elevator explosion
Authorities in northeastern Kansas have confirmed and identified six men killed Saturday in a massive grain elevator explosion, in which grain dust is a suspected cause. The Bartlett Grain Co. elevator at Atchison, about 85 km northeast of Topeka, was rocked by a "large-scale explosion" at about 7 p.m. Saturday, city officials said. Reports have
ICE plans new wheat, barley contracts for Oct. 2012 delivery
Winnipeg’s commodity exchange expects to have new contracts listed for milling wheat, durum and barley for October 2012 delivery if the Canadian Wheat Board’s single marketing desk ends next summer as planned. ICE Futures Canada on Wednesday laid out further plans for the new contracts, which it first proposed in May as the federal government
Raw milk access a matter for consumers, not dairyman: Ruling
Getting handy access to unpasteurized or “raw” milk in Ontario will take a legal challenge by its consumers, not by a dairyman whose cows provide it, a recent court ruling finds. Judge Peter Tetley of the Ontario Court of Justice so ruled Sept. 28 in overturning most of last year’s acquittals on 19 charges against
Manitoba to defend CWB status quo in ad campaign
Revised, June 13 — Manitoba’s provincial government has launched a three-week multimedia ad campaign urging Ottawa to reconsider its deregulation plans for the Canadian Wheat Board. Premier Greg Selinger announced the campaign Monday morning in Winnipeg, urging that the right to decide the board’s future be reserved for Prairie farmers — but also warning of
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