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Rick White, CEO of the Canadian Canola Growers Association, says since farmers pay most of the Canadian Grain Commission’s budget, the commission should be more directly accountable to farmers.

Farmers pay but have no say

One industry official says farmers cover most of the Canadian Grain Commission’s budget but the commission isn’t accountable to farmers

By Allan Dawson January 29, 2016

Farmers pay for Canadian Grain Commission (CGC) operations so they should have a bigger say in how it operates, says Rick White, chief executive officer of the Canadian Canola Growers Association (CCGA). “It’s (CGC) a Government of Canada agency and farmers are paying full freight on it now (because of cost recovery),” said White during

Mary Jean McFall. (LeedsGrenville.Liberal.ca)

Livestock

Tories challenge ag minister on chief of staff

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff January 21, 2016

The federal Conservatives want the House of Commons’ agriculture committee to probe the hiring of a Canadian egg processing heiress as chief of staff to the ag minister. Tory ag critic Chris Warkentin on Wednesday called on both Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay and his new chief of staff, Mary Jean McFall, to testify before the

Our History

Controversial wheat agreement with Great Britain is reached

Our History: November 1950

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff November 26, 2015

These solid oak sleighs with your choice of steel thickness were offered in our Nov. 23, 1950 issue. That was the year of the damaging flood in southern Manitoba, and the editorial that week suggested that it was “worthwhile to study” the text of an American Farm Bureau Federation resolution calling for more regulation on

Hogs, News

Pork agency hearings set for 2016

The proposed promotion and research agency would be funded by farmer levies

By Alex Binkley November 25, 2015

The Farm Products Council of Canada has scheduled public hearings for Calgary and Montreal in 2016 on the proposed national pork promotion and research agency. The sessions will be in Calgary Jan. 19 and Montreal Feb. 16. The council has been collecting written submissions for the last few months on the proposal for an agency

Opinion

Editorial: Unmuzzling the civil service

By Laura Rance-Unger November 23, 2015

The mainstream media has been having a field day over the newly reacquired ability of Environment Canada’s “rock snot” scientist to speak to the press about his work. Max Bothwell, who has published multiple studies on the freshwater algae and what makes it grow, became somewhat of a poster boy for the federal scientists affected

News

MacAulay has been given his list of marching orders

Healthy food, grain transportation,  expanded trade and more basic research  are among the items on his to-do list

By Alex Binkley November 23, 2015

For the first time, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has made public the mandate letters traditionally issued to every minister, and Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay’s list includes a national food policy, improved grain transportation, climate change adaptation and more basic research. MacAulay is to develop “a food policy that promotes healthy living and safe food by putting

Crops, Livestock, News

Canada’s new ag minister pledges to listen to farmers

Lawrence MacAulay leans in favour of the TPP deal and  hopes the Americans blink on COOL

By Allan Dawson November 23, 2015

After just six days as Canada’s new agriculture minister, Lawrence MacAulay hasn’t taken a position on a number of agricultural issues, but he knows how he will: “I intend to listen to the man who does the work — the farmer.” The 69-year-old former Prince Edward Island dairy and seed potato farmer and former solicitor

Opinion

Gerry Ritz was a unique minister

By Alex Binkley November 10, 2015

Gerry Ritz will be a tough act to follow as agriculture minister. During his eight years in the portfolio, he flew around the globe promoting Canadian farm and food products more times than anyone can count. He was tireless in trying to convince the agriculture and food sectors to act like partners in one of

News

VIDEO: Lawrence MacAulay sworn in

By Shannon VanRaes November 5, 2015

Manitoba Co-operator reporter Shannon VanRaes was on-hand in Ottawa as Canada’s new agriculture minister made his first public remarks on Parliament Hill. Lawrence MacAulay has represented Prince Edward Island in the House of Commons since 1988 was also a cabinet minister under Jean Chretien. He said his first order of business will be to meet

Former federal agriculture minister Gerry Ritz.

Cereals, News

Ritz explains quick end to CWB monopoly

He learned from former ag minister McKnight and Mayer he had to move fast or it might not get done

By Allan Dawson October 29, 2015

Most western Canadian farmers will remember Gerry Ritz as the agriculture minister who ended the Canadian Wheat Board’s marketing monopoly. It wasn’t a secret in 2011 what the newly elected Harper majority government had in store for the farmer-run board — ending the monopoly was an election promise and one of Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s

Field-by-field mapping could improve yield, productivity predictions

U.S. grains: Corn futures edge up, soybeans sag on improving US crop ratings

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures up, hogs mixed

Daily Network News

Field-by-field mapping could improve yield, productivity predictions

U.S. grains: Corn futures edge up, soybeans sag on improving US crop ratings

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures up, hogs mixed

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Farmers pay but have no say

Tories challenge ag minister on chief of staff

Controversial wheat agreement with Great Britain is reached

Pork agency hearings set for 2016

Editorial: Unmuzzling the civil service

MacAulay has been given his list of marching orders

Canada’s new ag minister pledges to listen to farmers

Gerry Ritz was a unique minister

VIDEO: Lawrence MacAulay sworn in

Ritz explains quick end to CWB monopoly

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