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Stand up for farm organizations

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There is little debate about the fact that farming is a unique and volatile industry which requires special attention from our governments. The question of who should be speaking on behalf of farmers is a far more contentious issue. Currently, general farm organizations like Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP) speak on behalf of all of Manitoba’s
Cereals, Opinion

LETTERS – for Nov. 6, 2008

Drainage maintenance still allowed In response to the article “Licence exemption for minor drainage works removed,” which appeared in the Oct. 30 edition of the Manitoba Co-operator, Keystone Agricultural Producers would like to assure its members that we are working in co-operation with officials from Manitoba Water Stewardship to bring forward the concerns of producers.
Cereals, News

CWB candidates’ debate broadcast

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Single-desk selling versus a dual market dominated a discussion between the five candidates running for Canadian Wheat Board director in District 10 broadcast on Radio Southern Manitoba Oct. 29. Incumbent and single-desk supporter Bill Toews argued the focus should be on single-desk selling versus an open market. “There is no model for a dual market,”
Cereals, News

Wheat board bans freelancer

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Freelance reporter and commentator Harry Siemens was excluded from two Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) news conferences because of his rude behaviour, not because he’s a wheat board critic, says Louise Waldman, the CWB’s manager of media relations and advertising. “He has used news conferences in the past to air his own personal opinion as opposed
Cereals, News

CWB election candidates finalized

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Nineteen farmers are running for five Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) directors’ positions this fall in an election many believe will be the most important since CWB governance was changed in 1998. The mandate and perhaps the very existence of the CWB hangs in the balance as farmers vote in Districts 2, 4, 6, 8 and
Cereals, News

CWB ballot application form revised

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The application form farmers use to get a ballot in the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) director elections has been replaced after a flaw was discovered. Part 1. C of the form says the land listed earlier in the form by an applicant is not listed in the applicant’s CWB permit book. Most of the applicants
Cereals, News

Five farmers run in District 10 CWB election

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Incumbent District 10 Canadian Wheat Board director Bill Toews faces four challengers for his job. Harvey Vaags of Dugald and Barry Reimer of Killarney were the last to throw their hats in the ring before nominations for wheat board directors to be elected in even-numbered districts closed last week. Rolf Penner of Morris, Curtis Sims
Cereals, Opinion

LETTERS – for Oct. 23, 2008

CWB needed now more than ever Several decades of deregulation championed by Britain’s Margaret Thatcher, U. S. president Ronald Reagan, Canada’s Brian Mulroney, and their biggest cheerleader, Stephen Harper, have come home to roost with the global market meltdown. Of course we have been here before. For farmers the real depression started in 1921 with
Cereals, News

CWB voters’ list case in court Oct. 17

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“It’s just part of their pattern of trying to create as much turmoil and confusion as they can around everything there is to do with the wheat board.” – Stewart Wells Arguments for expediting a court case aimed at overturning the federal government’s changes to the Canadian Wheat Board director elections voters’ list are scheduled

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