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Former agriculture minister and Conservative MP Gerry Ritz speaking to the House of Commons agriculture committee’s emergency meeting on the grain transportation backlog in Ottawa March 19.

Rail had it easier when the wheat board existed

According to Gerry Ritz, that’s because the CWB shipped grain in ‘dribs and drabs’

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff April 3, 2018

Former agriculture minister and Conservative MP Gerry Ritz appeared before the House of Commons agriculture committee during an emergency meeting March 19 in Ottawa to discuss the grain transportation backlog in Western Canada. Alistair MacGregor, the NDP MP for Cowichan —Malahat — Langford in British Columbia asked Ritz about the former Canadian Wheat Board’s role

News

NFU has plan to bolster producer cars

Producer cars are in decline and according to the National Farmers Union it is by design

By Allan Dawson March 29, 2018

What good is a statutory right to a producer car that can’t be loaded or unloaded? That’s the question former National Farmers Union (NFU) president Terry Boehm wants answered. It’s also why the NFU wants C-49, the Transportation Modernization Act, amended to protect and enhance farmers’ access to producer cars — rail cars farmers load

Editorial, Opinion

Editorial: Burying the hatchet

By Gord Gilmour March 1, 2018

There’s a long-running list of issues that, over the years, have been sure to spur fast and furious debate between farmers. It’s such a well-worn trope that there’s an old joke that’s been circulating for many years that goes like this: [Insert agriculture policy-maker’s name] was once asked how you could get anything done when

Our History

‘Best Results’ with the Chinook Air Seeder

Our History: February 1989

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff February 28, 2018

In 1986, Canadian Co-operative Implements had merged with Vicon Manufacturing, keeping its former logo but renaming the company as Cereal Implements, as seen in this ad for the Chinook Air Seeder in our February 23, 1989 issue. However, it continued to struggle and was placed in receivership in 1991. News that month was dominated by

Opinion, Other

Opinion: OmniTrax not only ones that derailed Churchill

There’s plenty of other culprits in this sad story 

By Ian Robson January 15, 2018

For over 100 years, the Port of Churchill on Hudson Bay was the gateway to northern Manitoba and communities in Nunavut. Served by 820 kilometres of railway line from The Pas, it shipped western grain to European markets until the port was stranded, then closed, and the hundreds of remote northern communities along the railway

Rapid Visco Analyzers are just one small step towards the longed-for ‘black box’ for grain testing.

Cereals, News

Falling number, objective grain-grading debate not new

The grain industry explored machine testing more than a decade ago

By Allan Dawson January 4, 2018

Calls for “objective” grain grading on the elevator driveway, especially for falling number, have been around for years, ebbing and flowing with the quality of the wheat crop. These days it’s the Alberta Grain Commission and Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association (WCWGA) advocating for the change. They say since grain companies sell wheat to customers

Cereals, News

Complaints about Canadian grading of U.S. wheat justified: Gifford

By Allan Dawson December 22, 2017

American complaints that Canadian regulations unfairly block American wheat from entering Canadian elevators are justified, says Mike Gifford, Canada’s former chief agricultural trade negotiator. “This is a classic issue of where the optics are awful,” Gifford told the 22nd annual Fields on Wheels conference in Winnipeg Dec. 15. “It seems to me it is an

Editorial, Opinion

Editorial: Rotation, rotation and rotation

By John Morriss December 7, 2017

In the early 1980s, the wheat board developed an idea called the Market Assurance Plan (MAP). That was back when there were perennial transport bottlenecks and the whole crop could sometimes not move by the end of the crop year. Even if it could move in total, it could be feast or famine for supply

Our History

Cast your vote on the Manitoba Beef Growers’ Promotion Plan

Our History: November 1973

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff December 6, 2017

Our November 23, 1973 issue contained advertisements encouraging farmers to vote on two questions. One was to allow a compulsory checkoff requested by the Manitoba Beef Growers Association to fund a beef-promotion agency for Manitoba cattle producers. While 22,000 farmers were eligible, only 5,696 ballots were returned and the proposal was defeated, with only 43

Editorial, Opinion, Other

Editorial: On a (rail)road to nowhere

By Gord Gilmour November 23, 2017

The Port of Churchill and the rail link to the south has been much in the public eye of late, most recently with word a Toronto financial group is partnering with local First Nations groups to buy the line. The tantalizing promise of Churchill has always been just over the horizon, it would seem. On

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle extend gains on improving cash prices, packer demand

U.S. grains: Soy futures slide on China demand doubts

Spain probes whether swine fever outbreak was caused by lab leak

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