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Cereals, Crops

Legislation To End CWB Monopoly Being Tabled This Week

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Legislation to end the Canadian Wheat Board s monopoly was to be tabled in the House of Commons Oct. 18, but the board is fighting back and is urging farmers to fight too. (Agriculture) Minister Ritz and Prime Minister Harper would like you to believe that this is a done deal, wheat board chair Allen
Cereals, Opinion

The Grain Trade Must Step Up

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Throughout its history, this newspaper s editorial position has been that Prairie farmers are better off economically by selling wheat and barley through the Canadian Wheat Board. That has not changed, but since the board s end seems inevitable, we have recently focused not on saying don t do it but rather on emphasizing just
Cereals, Opinion

Letters – for Oct. 20, 2011

We welcome readers comments on issues that have been covered in the Manitoba Co-operator.In most cases we cannot accept open letters or copies of letters which have been sent to several publications. Letters are subject to editing for length or taste. We suggest a maximum of about 300 words. Please forward letters to ManitobaCo-operator, 1666DublinAve.,Winnipeg,
Cereals, News

Ottawa Accused Of Revising Wheat Board History

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Regardless of how western farmers feel about the Canadian Wheat Board s (CWB) single desk today, the vast majority strongly supported it when it was created in 1943 and for years after, says Duke University history professor, John Herd Thompson. The Manitoba-born academic accuses Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz of trying
Cereals, News

Former CWB Minister Reg Alcock Passes

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Reg Alcock, the Winnipeg member of Parliament who led then-prime minister Paul Martin s political defence of the Canadian Wheat Board, died early last Friday of a reported heart attack at age 63. Alcock, the MP for the Winnipeg South riding from 1993 to 2006, served in Martin s cabinet from late 2003 to early
Cereals, Dairy cattle, Livestock

Maintaining A Supply Management System

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co-operator staff/ portage la prairie Protecting the future of supply management wasn t on the agenda at the October 11 district meeting of the Dairy Farmers of Manitoba, but it did generate discussion. I always have concern about supply management, we try to maintain the position we are in, said Norbert Rey, who farms with
Cereals, News

Cwb Impasse Stymies Buyers

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Canadian millers could be forced to import wheat from the U.S. if they can t forward contract with the Canadian Wheat Board or private trade during the transition to an open market, industry officials say. Millers and other food processors routinely forward contract wheat up to a year in advance but the pending end of
Cereals, Opinion

Farmers Will Finally Get Their Wish

DearEditor, Birthday parties are usually more fun. Instead, western Canadian wheat and barley farmers are capping off 68 years of being treated like second-class citizens. On October 12, 1943, the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) monopoly was born and imposed on western Canadian farmers when Canada was committed to supplying cheap wheat to Europe during the
Cereals, Crops, Opinion

Our History:

Wheat sparks verbal battle in Parliament Agriculture Minister James Gardiner fended off accusations that the Canada-U. K. wheat agreement cost Prairie farmers $330 million over the five-year pool that ended July 31, 1950. Gardiner said the postwar deal delivered higher returns than farmers would have received under the open market. In fact, there was no
Cereals, Opinion

Letters – for Oct. 13, 2011

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More information needed The CWB single-desk collective selling western Canadian wheat and malt barley for farmers represents, by the most conservative and neutral studies, a minimum of $500 million in their pockets annually. But what is $500 million anyway? Is it really that much? And what about the annual tenfold spinoff value as it cycles

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