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VIDEO: Retiring Cigi chief looks back

By Allan Dawson September 9, 2014

Canadian International Grains Institute (Cigi) CEO Earl Geddes is retiring after more than 35 years in agriculture during which time he was a farmer, farm leader, consultant, senior wheat board official and head of Cigi. Manitoba Co-operator reporter Allan Dawson asked Geddes about some of the highlights of his career.

Cereals, Opinion

Puttin’ on the Ritz: are the railways next?

Gerry Ritz won the wheat board battle, now it’s time for a new challenge

By Allan Dawson August 26, 2014

Gerry Ritz slew the Canadian Wheat Board, but can he rein in the railways? If anyone can, it’s Canada’s 33rd minister of agriculture. It won’t be easy, but neither was ending the wheat board’s 69-year-old monopoly. Ritz had help. Key was Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who had a deep disdain for the board and made

Cereals, Crops, News

CWB under fire for not taking delivery

Questions are also being raised about an unprecedented final adjusted payment from 2011-12 issued this May

By Allan Dawson June 27, 2014

The Canadian Wheat Board is dead but CWB, its government-owned, open-market successor, is still a lightning rod for controversy. CWB is being criticized for not taking delivery of all the grain it contracted this crop year, there are questions about why it issued final adjustment payments from 2011-12, and its 2012-13 financial statements are three

Cereals, Crops, News, Oilseeds

Canola growers take on the railways

A second level-of-service complaint has been filed

By Allan Dawson May 29, 2014

A second legal complaint has been filed alleging the railways provided inadequate grain-shipping service this crop year. And more might be coming. The Canadian Canola Growers Association (CCGA) filed a level-of-service complaint with the Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA) May 26, accusing both Canadian Pacific and Canadian National railways of failing to fulfil their common carrier

Rail cars being loaded with grain at a terminal

Cereals, News

Dreyfus files rail level-of-service complaint, others may follow

Grain is moving but the railways are the ones deciding where it goes

By Allan Dawson May 1, 2014

Louis Dreyfus Commodities has filed a level-of-service complaint against CN Rail with the Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA). It may be one of many as other grain companies contemplate similar action in hopes of recouping losses due to poor rail service for grain this winter. Meanwhile, CN and CP Rail “have met the prescribed (grain-moving) target

Cereals, News

CWB building, buying spree continues

The company could cut its federal ties early

By Allan Dawson April 24, 2014

CWB’s multimillion-dollar building and buying spree on its path to early privatization continues with the proposed purchase of Prairie West Terminal and its four elevators for $43.13 million. And it’s not done yet. “Our aim is to ultimately have a proper network of port and country facilities and this is a very important stepping stone

Grain auger filling a railway car with grain.

Cereals, Crops

Producer car orders on hold for 2014-15

The new program will make producer car ordering seamless between crop years

By Allan Dawson April 15, 2014

Producer car orders for next crop year are on hold until the Canadian Grain Commission (CGC) launches its new online application process, expected soon, says CGC spokesman Remi Gosselin. “If producers have already submitted an application for producer cars for the crop year 2014-15 they will resubmit their application when we begin accepting them through

Cereals, Crops, Opinion

New insights into Canadian Wheat Board orderly marketing

Markets work best when unfettered and there is competition

By Allan Dawson April 14, 2014

I have a new understanding of the term “orderly marketing.” I once thought of it simply as the approach the now defunct single-desk Canadian Wheat Board took to selling western Canadian wheat and barley. You know — pricing to market, not flooding markets to avoid driving prices down and providing equitable delivery opportunity for farmers.

Cereals, News

Calls coming for new car czar

Ian McCreary says the grain transportation system is lacking independent,  third-party oversight for setting shipping targets and rail car allocation

By Allan Dawson April 9, 2014

Is the creation of a new car czar similar to how the Grain Transportation Agency operated two decades ago the way to keep the grain flowing smoothly to export? Speakers at last week’s grain transportation summit here said someone or something needs to co-ordinate car allocations, especially when demand exceeds supply. Even CN Rail seems

Cereals, Crops, News, News & Opinion

Transportation crisis boosts grain company profits

There’s an extraordinary difference between country and port prices

By Allan Dawson March 31, 2014

Farmers unable to move crops this winter have had plenty of time to notice the difference between what grain companies are paying in the country and selling for off the West Coast. “Our calculations demonstrate the grain companies have taken over $1.6 billion in excess profits from wheat alone so far this crop year,” said

Daily Network News

U.S. grains: Corn and wheat futures firm on brisk exports, softer dollar

U.S. livestock: Chicago cattle, hogs rise

Russia has surplus of peas after failing to boost exports to China, analysts say

Tag Archives Canadian Wheat Board

VIDEO: Retiring Cigi chief looks back

Puttin’ on the Ritz: are the railways next?

CWB under fire for not taking delivery

Canola growers take on the railways

Dreyfus files rail level-of-service complaint, others may follow

CWB building, buying spree continues

Producer car orders on hold for 2014-15

New insights into Canadian Wheat Board orderly marketing

Calls coming for new car czar

Transportation crisis boosts grain company profits

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