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New provincial wheat and barley groups pledge to co-operate

There's agreement collaboration will make farmers' checkoff dollars stretch further

By Allan Dawson November 14, 2014

Western Canada’s new provincial wheat and barley organizations agree their best path forward is co-operating to make the best use of farmers’ checkoff dollars — but that doesn’t mean there won’t be some bumps in the road. Some were evident during a panel discussion at the Interprovincial Seed Growers meeting in Winnipeg Nov. 5 when

Opinion

Editorial: Wheat prices – a great big mess

By John Morriss November 14, 2014

Critics of the Canadian Wheat Board used to routinely point to published price quotes for U.S. Dark Northern Spring (DNS) wheat from the Pacific Northwest (PNW) and assume that was a benchmark price for all wheat sold in the world. If the board got less, it must have screwed up, said the critics. In fact

Cereals, Opinion

Restless farmers and the Prairie grain business

What goes around…

By John Morriss October 27, 2014

While the percentage of grain buyers in heaven may only be slightly higher than that for railroaders, the stories that grandpa (or now great-grandpa) told about being shafted by the grain companies early in the last century may have been a trifle exaggerated. Then, as now, there was a bit of a “shoot the messenger”

Cereals, Crops, News

Lack of information on CWB privatization criticized

Former Canadian Wheat Board director feels federal government is "trying to bury this dead skunk"

By Allan Dawson October 24, 2014

A former Canadian Wheat Board director is critical about the lack of information around how CWB will be privatized. Stewart Wells, who is also chair of the Friends of the Canadian Wheat Board, which fought to retain the board’s sales monopoly, suspects the federal government has secret criteria for the sale, including that CWB remain

Cereals, Oilseeds, Opinion

Editorial: Farmers shouldn’t get mad, they should get organized

Present regulatory system doesn't allow Canadian farmers' voice to be heard

By Laura Rance-Unger October 13, 2014

It will be bitterly disappointing to many farmers that the Canadian Transportation Agency chose to reject a level-of-service complaint filed by the Canola Growers of Canada over last winter’s rail service. The Canola Growers’ level-of-service complaint was the one opportunity farmers had to extract some compensation for their losses in last winter’s debacle, even if

CWB’s 2012-13 annual report was tabled in Parliament four months late, but most of the report has been deemed too commercially sensitive to release, much to the dismay of the Friends of the Canadian Wheat Board. photo: cwb

Cereals, News

CWB annual report: notes but no numbers

The Friends of the Canadian Wheat Board suspects the report is too politically sensitive to be made public

By Allan Dawson September 25, 2014

How well did CWB, the government grain company formed after Ottawa ended the Canadian Wheat Board’s sales monopoly July 31, 2012, do during its first year in an open market? We may never know. Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz tabled CWB’s 2012-13 annual report, including its audited financial statement, in Parliament in July. But only the

Opinion

Leadership needed in agri-food policy

By Alex Binkley July 29, 2014

During the last year or so, the agri-food industry has been the subject of enough reports on its economic potential and scope for improvement to fill a respectable bookshelf. Whether from academics, researchers, think-tanks or politicians, the documents focus on virtually all the major issues. Now to keep these tomes from gathering dust. The latest

Crops, News

More changes coming to Canadian Grain Commission

What won’t change is protecting the ‘Canada brand’ through mandatory outward inspection, says Elwin Hermanson

By Allan Dawson June 3, 2014

The Canadian Grain Commission is looking for more ways to streamline its operations without compromising Canada’s reputation for high-quality exports, its chief commissioner says. Elwin Hermanson said that may bring changes to how services like inspections prior to export are delivered, but not the end result for customers. “Our minister has been very clear and

Crops

Small disasters wait under AAFC disaster relief program

By Alex Binkley December 10, 2013

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada is good at delivering financial help to farmers caught in large-scale disasters but rather tardy in assisting in smaller incidents, says Auditor General Michel Ferguson. “Providing quick assistance to agricultural producers is a key goal of the Agri-Recovery program,” Ferguson says in his fall report to Parliament. Timeliness is important to

CWB’s planned purchase of grain handling and port terminal assets from the Soumat arm of Toronto’s Upper Lakes Group Inc. has renewed calls for the wheat board’s contingency fund to be paid to farmers.

Cereals, News

CWB facility purchase raises concerns

By Allan Dawson December 4, 2013

CWB Ltd. is buying handling facilities, but some farmers are wondering who’s paying the bill. CWB announced last week that it would purchase Mission Terminal, Les Élévateurs des Trois-Rivières and Services Maritimes Laviolette for an undisclosed amount. Some have concerns that the former Canadian Wheat Board’s contingency fund, which farmers claim as theirs, will bankroll

Daily Network News

U.S. grains: Soybeans rise on export optimism; corn, wheat nearly flat

U.S. livestock: Chicago cattle and hogs slide back

FCC-led coalition to invest $5 billion into agriculture innovation

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