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Co-operating with its competitors

By Laura Rance-Unger January 27, 2012

Attendance was down at the annual Canadian Wheat Board breakfast at Ag Days this year, but the farmers who came were encouraged by what they heard. “That just made my day. Now we have a choice,” said Jake Hofer, a wheat producer from Treesbank Colony after listening to a presentation by Gord Flaten, the board’s

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Monitor open market, Goodale says

By Allan Dawson January 24, 2012

The new open wheat and barley market promised for western Canadian farmers starting Aug. 1 should be monitored by an independent institution so the findings can help guide future policies, says Saskatchewan Liberal MP Ralph Goodale. “Unless you start working on this right now from the beginning and follow it through from Day 1 you

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New twist in wheat board legal battle

By Allan Dawson January 24, 2012

The battle over the future of the Canadian Wheat Board has moved off the farm, out of the parliamentary chambers and into the courts. Two new court actions were launched early in the new year, including a class-action lawsuit claiming $15.4 billion is owed to farmers upon the dismantling of Canadian Wheat Board assets. “The

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Market steady, but uncertainty ahead

By Shannon VanRaes January 24, 2012

Commodity prices may have peaked in 2011, ProFarmer analyst Mike Jubinville told farmers attending the St. Jean Farm Days. “My gut feeling right now is that the heights have already come in,” Jubinville told producers. “It’s not that I’m feeling bearish about the marketplace going into 2012, personally I think that there is going to

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Wheat growers want no-cost buybacks to get grain moving

By Allan Dawson, Daniel Winters January 25, 2012

Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz has pledged to push the Canadian Wheat Board for no-cost buybacks for farmers who want to pre-empt the open market expected Aug. 1. Ritz told the Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association meeting in Moose Jaw last week he would push for such an arrangement or changes to producer pricing options during

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Ritz confident C-18 will win legal nod

By Daniel Winters January 24, 2012

Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz declared the battle for “marketing freedom” all but won in front of a friendly crowd at the 42nd annual Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association convention. Noting that Bill C-18, the Marketing Freedom for Grain Farmers Act, received royal assent on Dec. 15, Ritz cited the “supremacy of Parliament” as meaning that

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CWB final payments for 2010-11

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff January 12, 2012

The Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) has issued final payments to farmers for the wheat, durum wheat and barley they delivered to the CWB pools during the 2010-11 crop year. These payments represent the balance of the money owing to farmers after their grain has been marketed through the CWB pools, and after operating costs have

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CTA issues revenue cap report

By Allan Dawson January 12, 2012

Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) exceeded what it’s allowed to earn hauling western Canadian grain to port by $1.25 million last crop year (2010-11), while Canadian National (CN), was $913,447 under. The results didn’t surprise Ian McCreary, a former Canadian Wheat Board elected director and farmer at Bladworth, Sask. “Rail competition just isn’t there,” he said

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Wheat variety development: Farmers asked to contribute more

By Allan Dawson January 12, 2012

Canada has fallen behind its competitors in spending on cereal research and one way or another, farmers are going to pay the cost of catching up, industry leaders say. “I think this now will be the biggest issue facing Canadian agriculture in the next 10 years, this issue of R & D expenditures,” Murray Fulton,

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Ritz Repeatedly Calls Oberg A Thief — Then Recants

By Allan Dawson November 17, 2011

Under threat of legal action, federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz hastily retracted widely circulated comments he made last week accusing CWB chair Allen Oberg of stealing farmers money. This word was only used figuratively and I retract it, Ritz said in a statement emailed to reporters Nov. 12. It remains our government s belief that

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Co-operating with its competitors

Monitor open market, Goodale says

New twist in wheat board legal battle

Market steady, but uncertainty ahead

Wheat growers want no-cost buybacks to get grain moving

Ritz confident C-18 will win legal nod

CWB final payments for 2010-11

CTA issues revenue cap report

Wheat variety development: Farmers asked to contribute more

Ritz Repeatedly Calls Oberg A Thief — Then Recants

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