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Farmers urged not to vote for rapeseed

Our History: November 1973

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff November 10, 2016

This ad by the Winnipeg Commodity Exchange in our November 22, 1973 issue encouraged farmers not to vote for rapeseed to be put under control of the Canadian Wheat Board in an upcoming plebiscite. The results were 52.7 per cent of keeping the open market, 46.2 per cent for CWB control and 1.1 per cent

Our History

Get on your Moto-Ski and slide

Our History: October 1968

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff October 27, 2016

You had 11 Moto-Ski models from which to choose if you contacted the retailers listed in this ad from our Oct. 24, 1968 issue. According to Wikipedia, the Moto-Ski company of LaPocatière, Quebec started snowmobile production in 1963. It was purchased in 1971 by Bombardier, and the last year of production was 1985. That issue

University of Manitoba agricultural economist Derek Brewin suspects grain companies captured $3.5 billion that should’ve gone to western Canadian wheat farmers due to a wider-than-normal export basis.

News

Wide basis cost farmers billions

The University of Manitoba’s Derek Brewin suspects  grain companies got the money instead

By Allan Dawson October 27, 2016

Who grabbed more than $3.5 billion in revenue from the Prairie grain trade over two recent crop years? Many have asked that question and now a University of Manitoba agriculture economist has weighed into the debate. Derek Brewin says it was likely captured by the various grain companies that pocketed the difference in the 2013-14

The Manitoba Wheat and Barley Growers Association (MWBGA) and Manitoba Corn Growers Association will share a general manager. MWBGA president Fred Greig says it will benefit both organizations.

Cereals, Local news

Manitoba corn, wheat and barley growers to share new general manager

The two organizations will remain independent but say their members  can be better served by co-operating on administration

By Allan Dawson October 3, 2016

Two Manitoba farm commodity groups are putting talk about collaboration into action by sharing a general manager. The Manitoba Corn Growers Association (MCGA) and Manitoba Wheat and Barley Growers Association (MWBGA) are looking for a new general manager to administer both associations when corn growers’ general manager Theresa Bergsma retires next June, after almost 29

Comment

Comment: Port of Churchill is worth saving

Public ownership may be the best and only answer to preserve this national asset

By Dean Harder September 27, 2016

Most of us take for granted that the majority of our roads and highways is publicly funded and built at cost in order to serve the overall public good. There is no clamour asking why those roads are not being given away to private companies to let road barons profit from them. For good reason!

Haitham Al-Khshali (l), director general of the Grain Board of Iraq and Emmanuel Mshelia of Royal Mills and Foods Limited of Nigeria both participated in Cigi’s annual international program.

Cereals, News

Cigi course highlights customer relations

The reliability of Canadian wheat is the theme of Cigi’s annual international program

By Shannon VanRaes August 19, 2016

They come from 16 different countries, but have one thing in common — Canadian wheat. Participants in the 49th annual International Grain Industry Program at the Canadian International Grains Institute, better known as Cigi, are in Canada to learn more about where the grain they buy comes from, how it is grown and how it

Dan Mazier, president of Keystone Agricultural Producers.

Cereals, Local news

KAP wants action to get grain moving through Churchill this year

Dan Mazier says contracts have been made and not meeting them sends the wrong message  about Canada as a grain supplier

By Allan Dawson August 12, 2016

Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP) president Dan Mazier is dismayed by delays in reopening the Port of Churchill to export grain this year. “I will put this right at the feet of the federal government — either the transport minister or the agriculture minister,” Mazier said in an interview Aug. 6. “There are (grain) contracts out

Cereals, Comment

Analysis: Canada needs Churchill, but do grain farmers?

The port and bay line are vital to the northern economy, but so little grain moves the impact  on the grain sector would be minimal

By Allan Dawson August 5, 2016

Canada’s grain industry doesn’t need the Port of Churchill, or its railway — but Canada does. Both are important to Canadian sovereignty in the North and are vital to the economies of Churchill and other northern communities. From a farmer’s perspective the more shipping options available the better. But if Churchill — Canada’s only northern

Editorial, Opinion

Editorial: Big crops on the horizon

By Laura Rance-Unger July 7, 2016

There are some among us who plan their drive across the Canadian Prairies so they do most of it under the cover of darkness, ostensibly to avoid the tedium of vast horizons on which there is “nothing” to see. To each their own. I’ve taken that drive twice this spring — with the help of

Our History

‘Never worry about grain loss’ and supply management for eggs

Our History: August 1976

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff July 7, 2016

Supply management was top of mind in the August 5, 1976 issue, which lays out details of a hard-fought federal-provincial agreement to transfer control over egg marketing to the Canadian Egg Marketing Agency (CEMA). But getting the last two provincial holdouts — Manitoba and Saskatchewan — to relinquish control required a compromise. Manitoba’s Agriculture Minister

Daily Network News

Russia targets seeds market as traditional export customers boost grains production

China buys more Canadian canola

Klassen: Western Canadian calf prices ratchet higher

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