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Balance needed in agri-food research in Canada

Agri research in Canada is hamstrung by a shortage of financial and human resources

By Alex Binkley July 28, 2015

The pursuit of basic science in agriculture and agri-food has been squeezed out of federal priorities in recent years, speakers told an Agriculture Institute of Canada conference. “Funding remains a challenge for us,” Robert Gordon, dean of the Ontario Agriculture College (OAC), told the delegates to the AIC conference, which was crafting a research policy

Crops, News

FCWB amends lawsuit, alleges wheat board funds misallocated, farmers shortchanged

Confused by this latest legal action? Here’s an explanation

By Allan Dawson July 23, 2015

The Friends of the Canadian Wheat Board (FCWB) allege $720 million owed to farmers in 2011-12 went instead to help the board transition to an open market. “On the face of it, it contravenes the existing legislation,” FCWB chair Stewart Wells said in an interview July 14. According to Wells, the wheat board act says

Cereals, Comment

NFU misses mark on the cause of 2013-14 grain backlog

Wheat board co-ordination can’t overcome insufficient system capacity

By Allan Dawson June 29, 2015

The National Farmers Union (NFU) has a well-deserved reputation for doing sound analytical work. That’s why I was disappointed in its opinion piece published in the Manitoba Co-operator June 17. The NFU contends G3, the company taking over CWB — the remnants of the old wheat board — is planning to build a grain terminal

National news

Newly created buyer G3 to take majority ownership of government-owned CWB

Farmers can earn equity in CWB by delivering grain but it won’t be farmer controlled

By Allan Dawson April 23, 2015

When the Canadian Wheat Board had a monopoly to market western wheat and barley, grain farmers controlled its operation. But they didn’t own it. Now farmers who deliver grain to CWB can collectively own up to 49.9 per cent through a farmers’ trust, but they will have no control and little input. Control is with

News

Supreme Court kills $17-billion suit to compensate farmers for scrapped wheat board monopoly

However, legal action concerning allegations farmers’ money was wrongly used  to restructure the post-monopoly board can continue

By Allan Dawson April 20, 2015

The Supreme Court of Canada has quashed efforts to mount a class-action lawsuit claiming $17 billion in government compensation for the Harper government’s decision to end the Canadian Wheat Board monopoly. The court last week ruled it would not hear an appeal of a lower court’s decision last October to throw out most of the

Cereals, Opinion

Editorial: Will Wheat Commission’s PDQ project have any teeth?

Also, A job for the senators: Answering the unanswered questions of UPOV '91

By John Morriss February 17, 2015

If you didn’t read Phil Franz-Warkentin’s article on calculating basis on page 11 last week and don’t still have a copy, you can find it by going to our website and searching for “muddied.” That word appropriately describes the voodoo combination of futures and exchange rates that Prairie grain companies use to calculate their published

Crops, News

CGC producer security concerns have a long history

There has been much discussion and many reports over the years on how best to protect  western Canadian grain farmers when companies fail to pay them

By Allan Dawson January 7, 2015

The Canadian Grain Commission (CGC) and federal government have wrestled with producer security for more than 30 years. And while the CGC says it wants a better, less expensive program, it also needs to keep its costs and government liabilities down. In 1982 Manitoba-based Econ Consulting Ltd., and Memco Limited of Red Deer, Alberta went

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Crops, News

The CGC is still on guard for thee

Canada's grain quality system has not been compromised post-wheat board or by the changes at the grain commission, the CGC's chief commissioner says

By Allan Dawson December 19, 2014

Canada’s wheat quality assurance system has not been weakened by elimination of the Canadian Wheat Board’s sales monopoly or inward inspection at export terminals, say Canadian Grain Commission (CGC) officials. “In light of a lot of the stories that have been going around I want to assure you it (ending inward inspection) hasn’t affected grain

Local news

CWB privatization attracts national attention

The former wheat board responds in ‘open letter,’ while the NFU calls on the western provinces  to buy the board’s assets until farmers can take control

By Allan Dawson December 16, 2014

Maybe it was MP Pat Martin’s question to Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz: “Has the minister lost his freaking mind?” or a recent Globe and Mail editorial, but CWB’s transition to a private grain company is getting lots of attention beyond the farm sector. So much so CWB issued an ‘open letter’ Dec. 5 to explain

Opinion

Editorial: The real deal to watch

By Laura Rance-Unger December 15, 2014

There has been quite the media hullabaloo lately over rumours that a large multinational based in the U.S. might be closing in on a deal with CWB, the much abbreviated version of the former Canadian Wheat Board. Whether this rumoured deal is a partnership or acquisition depends on who’s talking, but in reality, it doesn’t

Daily Network News

Pulse Weekly: No upside for peas until after New Year

U.S. grains: CBOT wheat sets fresh lows on supply pressure, Ukraine ceasefire talks

U.S. livestock: Cattle rise, hogs recoup losses

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Balance needed in agri-food research in Canada

FCWB amends lawsuit, alleges wheat board funds misallocated, farmers shortchanged

NFU misses mark on the cause of 2013-14 grain backlog

Newly created buyer G3 to take majority ownership of government-owned CWB

Supreme Court kills $17-billion suit to compensate farmers for scrapped wheat board monopoly

Editorial: Will Wheat Commission’s PDQ project have any teeth?

CGC producer security concerns have a long history

The CGC is still on guard for thee

CWB privatization attracts national attention

Editorial: The real deal to watch

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