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Editorial: Feeding the fish

By Gord Gilmour September 22, 2016

There’s a familiar trope of editorial cartoonists that features a chain of fish, small to large, with each larger incarnation set to consume the next smallest, until the tiny, blissfully unaware minnow at the very end of the food chain. It’s an image that’s been much on my mind lately as I’ve watched the latest

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Ian White says CWB sees farmers as its “natural shareholders”

By Allan Dawson April 15, 2012

As the Canadian Wheat Board inches towards privatization, the debate has begun whether it will be farmers or the likes of Cargill that ultimately own the assets. The latter has not even raised the idea with the board, CWB president and CEO Ian White said at a recent producers’ meeting. “There’s been no discussion of

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Grain commission defended

By Allan Dawson March 14, 2012

With the Canadian Wheat Board’s monopoly soon to disappear there’s talk of overhauling Canada’s grading and quality control system, which begs the question: is the Canadian Grain Commission (CGC) still needed? “The short answer is yes, there is a need for the grain commission,” chief commissioner Elwin Hermanson said in an interview March 1. “If

Cereals, Grain Markets

Australia To Further Deregulate Wheat Exports

September 29, 2011

CANBERRA/REUTERS Australia will abolish its wheat export regulator and a levy on all wheat exports from Sept. 30, 2012, Agriculture Minister Joe Ludwig said Sept. 23, as the country moves to further deregulate its wheat exports market. However, the changes will be 12 months later than recommended by a major report into wheat exports, which

Cereals, Dairy cattle, News

Australian Trade Minister Supports End To Single Desk

By Allan Dawson September 15, 2011

Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz has a new high-profile ally in his quest to end the Canadian Wheat Board s (CWB) single desk Australian trade minister Craig Emerson. The Australian Wheat Board s export monopoly ended in 2008 and Emerson said it has been a great success. The Australian experience has been unambiguously good, he said

Cereals, Opinion

Letters – for Jun. 23, 2011

June 23, 2011

Bipole boondoggle continues Another week, another round of rains drowning the grains and livestock sectors, another Manitoba Co-operator in the mail, and yet another letter from Rosann Wowchuk proclaiming the economic and environmental virtues of Bipole III. The former minister of agriculture gives us the same story: west side is good; east side is bad. A

Cereals, Oilseeds, Opinion

Sell Or Wind Down The CWB

By Allan Dawson June 16, 2011

Rhetoric is “language designed to have a persuasive or impressive effect on its audience, but is often regarded as lacking in sincerity or meaningful content.” There’s been lots of it in the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) debate. But push came to shove with the election of a majority Conservative government May 2. The government says

Cereals, News

Who’s Responsible For A Viable Open-Market CWB?

By Allan Dawson June 9, 2011

Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz says the Canadian Wheat Board can survive in an open market, but it’s up to the board and the industry to figure out how. Ritz arrived for a half-hour visit at the board May 30 – his first-ever foray into its downtown offices – to inform officials there what he had

Cereals, Crops

Cargill Calls For Orderly End To Orderly Marketing

By Rod Nickel May 19, 2011

The Canadian government should give the grain industry at least six months to adjust before ending the Canadian Wheat Board’s grain monopoly, the chief executive of Cargill’s Canadian subsidiary said May 11. A good time for the change, which would allow Western Canada’s farmers to sell their wheat and barley to anyone they choose instead

Cereals, Oilseeds, Opinion

The Question Now, Is How?

By Laura Rance-Unger May 12, 2011

The federal Conservatives made no secret of their plans to end the Canadian Wheat Board’s monopoly if given a majority. Canadians, including the vast majority of Prairie farmers, gave them the mandate. So no one should be surprised if they do what they said they would, despite the results of CWB director elections. You don’t

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