This ad in our Oct. 14, 1993 issue described a new alliance between Can-Oat Milling and Manitoba Pool Elevators, which had purchased an 11 per cent interest in the operation at Portage la Prairie. SaskPool later bought MPE’s interest and it eventually became part of the Agricore/UGG/SaskPool/Viterra mergers. It is now owned by James Richardson International.
That week we reported that the U.S. National Pasta Association had joined Canada in opposing U.S. import duties on Canadian durum. The U.S. had claimed that Canadian imports had lowered prices, costing an additional $600 million in subsidy payments.
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The growing season that year was unusually cool and wet and our issues that fall featured many stories on a new dilemma for many farmers — “tombstone,” or fusarium-affected wheat. In mid-September half the samples received by the grain commission had graded Canada Feed because of tombstone kernels. It was later found that despite the cool and moist year, the crop had high protein and was in demand by U.S. mills. That was partly because of a shortage since much of the similarly affected crop in the U.S. had been written off by crop insurance and burned.
We also reported that dairy and poultry farmers had launched an advertising campaign to make supply management an issue in the upcoming election campaign. There were concerns that it was under threat in a potential new GATT (now WTO) agreement, which had been under discussion since 1985.
