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Two proposed bylaws will be discussed at the Manitoba Wheat and Barley Growers Association’s annual meeting Feb. 11, 2016, says association executive director Brent VanKoughnet. One deals with checkoffs and the other advance voting for director elections.

Manitoba Wheat and Barley Growers Association considers bylaw changes

Three of the association’s six director positions are also up for election

By Allan Dawson November 23, 2015

Two proposed bylaw changes will be considered at the Manitoba Wheat and Barley Growers Association (MWBGA) annual meeting Feb. 11, 2016 during the Crop Connect conference at the Victoria Inn in Winnipeg. One bylaw deals with checkoffs and the other with director elections, association executive director Brent VanKoughnet said in an interview Nov. 12. Information

Ralph Goodale says trade and improving grain transportation are at the top of the Liberals’ agricultural agenda.

Crops, Livestock, National news

The Liberal government’s ‘to do’ list on agriculture

Ralph Goodale says improvements to grain transportation and trade are top priorities, but safety nets and research are also on the agenda

By Allan Dawson November 5, 2015

Grain transportation and trade are top of the new Liberal government’s agricultural agenda, says veteran Saskatchewan MP and former agriculture minister Ralph Goodale. Other priorities include determining if farm aid programs are adequate, investing in infrastructure to protect soil and water and refocusing the government’s role in scientific research. The Canadian Wheat Board is not

"There were a lot of good things about it, but I just didn't want to do it anymore." – John Duvenaud

Crops, Local news

GrainWorld outlook conference dead unless a new organizer steps up

Wild Oats publisher John Duvenaud, who put on the meetings the last four years, doesn’t want to do them anymore

By Allan Dawson November 3, 2015

Wild Oats GrainWorld, one of Western Canada’s main annual grain outlook conferences, will no longer be held unless someone new wants to take on the job, says conference organizer John Duvenaud. “I’ve run four,” Duvenaud, who owns and publishes the Wild Oats grain-marketing newsletter, said in an interview Oct. 21. “They’ve all made money. It’s

Comment, Opinion

Supply management fixation may finally be coming to an end

Economist says CWB changes were positive and the same could happen for dairy

By Sylvain Charlebois November 3, 2015

We shouldn’t kid ourselves, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal was never really about Canada. It was, in fact, about the United States’ will to undermine China, increase its commercial footprint in the region, and connect with Japan. But whatever the motivation for the deal, it is time to redefine what competitiveness really means to

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

News

G3 Canada’s farmer equity plan

The trustees act in the best interest of the farmers’ trust created Aug. 1, 2013 by then CWB 

By Allan Dawson October 23, 2015

Three trustees have been appointed to oversee farmers’ equity in G3 Canada Limited, the grain company created in July when CWB, the federal government’s grain company, and G3 Global Grain Group, joined forces. The trustees are Kevin Augusta, a former director of commercial banking with CIBC, David Carefoot chief financial officer at Princess Auto Ltd.

Crops, News

Grain backlog no impact on farm incomes: Ritz

A study says it cost farmers billions

By Allan Dawson October 15, 2015

The grain-shipping backlogs between 2013 and 2015 had “no negative dollar impact” on Prairie grain farmers, Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz said Oct. 13 in response to a recently released study putting the losses in the billions. University of Saskatchewan agricultural economist Richard Gray has published a study estimating grain-shipping delays during the winter of 2013-14

Our History

Farmers march on the Manitoba Legislature

Our History: October 1991

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff October 15, 2015

Some said more than 10,000, others 7,000 to 8,000, but one way or another, a lot of farmers showed up at a rally at the Manitoba legislature on Oct. 9, 1991. They then marched down Portage Avenue to Portage and Main, receiving many waves and signs of encouragement from city dwellers along the route. The

Lorne Hehn, shown here in an undated photo, was a southern Saskatchewan farmer before becoming UGG’s president in Winnipeg in 1981. (Grainews file photo)

Crops

Former UGG, CWB chief Lorne Hehn, 79

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff October 8, 2015

Lorne Hehn, at his funeral last week, was remembered as the Saskatchewan farmer-turned-businessman who led the Canadian Wheat Board toward its next-to-last incarnation as a farmer-controlled marketing agency. Hehn, who died Sept. 16 at age 79, had farmed at Markinch, about 65 km north of Regina, and was involved in several farm organizations, becoming a

Local news

Agricultural Hall of Fame: Robert Roehle

The Manitoba Agricultural Hall of Fame inducted eight new members in July 2015. Here is one of the new inductees

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff October 7, 2015

Robert (Bob) Gilmor Roehle grew up on a grain and dairy farm at Blackdale, Manitoba. Following his education at Irwinton, West St. Paul and Stonewall Collegiate, he attended the University of Manitoba where he earned a B.S.A. in 1968 and an M.Sc. in agricultural economics in 1971. In 1968, he married Judith McKillop, a business

Daily Network News

Survey looks to gauge whether producers are aware of free agronomic tools and where producer funds are going

Greek farmers block borders, airport and roads in protest at delayed EU funds

Trump to unveil $12 billion aid package for farmers hit by trade war

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