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Clock ticking for company co-operation on grain price transparency

Gerry Ritz wants information posted starting Aug. 1 and John De Pape is confident the target can be met

By Allan Dawson April 29, 2015

John De Pape is trying to get all Prairie grain companies to give him their prices so he can post regional averages starting Aug. 1, but if they don’t the federal government might have to force them to. “It’s a stick the (agriculture) minister (Gerry Ritz) has,” De Pape, president of FARMCO, told the Keystone

Crops, Editorial

Editorial: The farmers’ (equity) trust in the CWB

The sale of the CWB to Global Grain Group leaves many new questions for Prairie farmers

By Laura Rance-Unger April 27, 2015

The farmers’ equity component is perhaps the most puzzling aspect of last week’s announcement that CWB has been sold. We can see the advantages to the Harper government of getting the company off its books. Moving the western Canadian grain-marketing system to an open market was an election promise that came with baggage; the administration

Grain Markets, Markets

Rise in Canadian dollar pressures canola values

How a new CWB owner affects markets remains to be seen

By Phil Franz-Warkentin April 24, 2015

ICE Futures Canada canola contracts dropped hard on Thursday (April 16) but managed to claw back some of those losses by Friday. The old-crop May and July contracts were both lower on the week, as a strengthening Canadian dollar provided the catalyst for a round of fund selling. The currency climbed by over two cents

Cereals, Opinion

Support for single desk wasn’t ‘cooked up’

And farmers won’t control  the voluntary CWB 

By Allan Dawson April 24, 2015

In the heat of debate it’s easy to forget a fact or dismiss your opponent’s argument out of hand. Perhaps that explains why Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz accused Lowe Farm farmer Dean Harder of citing a “cooked up” number when the two were sparring April 15 in Winnipeg over the privatization of CWB — the

National news

Mixed reaction to sale details: some like it not, some like it sold

Opponents say the lack of farmer control and foreign ownership is offensive while others are glad the deal is done

By Allan Dawson April 23, 2015

The Friends of the Canadian Wheat Board (FCWB) and National Farmers Union and federal NDP oppose the sale. “This was just another step in the largest transfer of wealth away from farmers in the history of this country,” said FCWB chair Stewart Wells who farms at Swift Current, Sask., and served as an elected wheat

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

Our History

CN says ‘thanks’, and Carman rallies in the face of low grain prices

Our History: April 1986

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff April 23, 2015

This CN ad from our April 24, 1986 issue thanked producers for attending its meetings across the Prairies that winter. Stories about low grain prices were prominent in the issue. The U.S. had launched the Bonus Incentive Commodity Export Program (BICEP), later renamed the Export Enhancement Program (EEP). There was speculation that the grain export

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, Local news

Farmers pack first MWBGA annual meeting

Three new directors were elected, of whom two favour  mail-in ballots for future elections

By Allan Dawson February 26, 2015

So many came to the Manitoba Wheat and Barley Growers Association’s (MWBGA) first annual meeting at the Victoria Inn in Winnipeg that hotel staff had to open an adjoining room to seat the crowd. An estimated 150 people attended, 121 members registered and 117 cast ballots, defeating one interim incumbent director and electing three new

Cereals, Crops

Everything you ever wanted to know about shipping grain to the U.S.

Online publication includes info on weight restrictions, phytosanitary certificates and more

By Allan Dawson February 17, 2015

Canadian and American grain companies have a new resource to assist them when buying or transhipping grain to or through each other’s countries. The goal is to expedite grain trading between the two nations and beyond following the elimination of the Canadian Wheat Board’s single desk. “We’ve seen all sorts of border challenges in other

Daily Network News

Health Canada stops sales of coccidiosis medication Deccox on procedural issue

Canadian cattle herd sees first annual increase since 2018

Olymel parent company sees increased earnings in 2025

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