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Grain Act Bill Dead Or Delayed

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“The key here is that this hoist motion actually kills the bill before it even has a chance to make it to committee.” – PIERRE LEMIEUX Opposition parties employed a rarely used parliamentary tactic to effectively kill the federal government’s proposed legislation amending the Canada Grain Act last week. Just as the government was preparing
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Who Enforces CWB Election Rules?

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The Canadian Wheat Board’s (CWB) election co-ordinator says it’s not up to him to determine if the five Conservative MPs who urged voters to vote for open-market candidates in the CWB elections last year should have registered as third-party interveners. “There’s really no ability for the election co-ordinator to do any investigative function,” Ian Craven
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MP Wrong About CWB Contingency Fund

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News that Prairie farmers earned a record $7.2 billion through the Canadian Wheat Board last year was buried last week beneath allegations that the board had mismanaged the Producer Payments Options program (PPO). Conservative MP David Anderson charged the board lost $130 million of farmers’ money, an allegation CWB chair Larry Hill says is untrue
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Railway Overpayments Remain In Limbo

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“What can I do to leave a legacy to Western Canadian agriculture? This is it.” – Ed Rempel Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz says the federal government won’t consider any action on a request to refund railway overpayments to farmers until a court case in concluded. “The money has been put in a trust while the
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Lack of co-operation hurts world’s best grain system

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Western Canada has the best grain handling and transportation system in the world, but it breaks down because its participants don’t get along, according to Mark Hemmes, president of Quorum Corporation, which monitors the system’s performance for the federal government. “We probably have, without a doubt, the best country elevator system anywhere,” Hemmes told the
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Farmers split over revenue cap excess

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“This is an excellent opportunity for Western Grains Research to share its vision of what could be done with this money. “ – Doug Robertson Farm groups continue to disagree over what to do with the $59.8 million the railways owe them after overcharging to ship grain in 2007-08. Last week the Western Canadian Wheat
Cereals, Crops, Opinion

Killing KVD undermines “branding” of western Canadian wheat

“I see KVD (kernel visual distinguishability) as one of the elements that lets Canadian wheat be sold as a branded product.” – JOHN DUVENAUD Kernel visual distinguishabi lity (KVD), which was used for decades to quickly and cheaply identify and segregate eight classes of Western Canadian milling wheat from farm to end-user, was ended abruptly
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Basis comparisons need context

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“All we ask is you make note of the fact that when you use the numbers you point out the fact that there is a difference in the way that they are calculated and the canola number has a higher probability of error.” – MARK HEMMES Which is more efficient at moving grain to export:
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Open market on hold, but WCWGA still optimistic

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“Whether it’s a few months or a few years, certainly we hope it’s the shorter.” – Kevin Bender The open barley and wheat markets the Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association (WCWGA) has pushed long and hard for is on hold, but its new president is certain it will come someday. “We had hoped it would
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Pooling seen surviving in open market

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Canadian farmers would likely be better off in an open market too, even in the absence of farmer-owned co-ops, according to the chairman of an Australian grain-marketing co-op now working in such a market. With the Australian Wheat Board (AWB) having lost its wheat-marketing monopoly, pooling continues in Australia, according to Ian Wandel, chair of

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