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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
Cereals, News

Transition Report Rejects Regulation

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Let the market work. That s what the working group on the transition to an open market and voluntary Canadian Wheat Board Aug. 1, 2012 advises Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz in its report released Sept. 28. The government should let the open market function and intervene only where necessary to address actual market failures, the
Cereals, Crops, Oilseeds

Wheat Cash Advances To Be Administered By Canola Growers

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Ottawa has stripped the administration of wheat, durum and barley cash advances from the Canadian Wheat Board and transferred it to the Canadian Canola Growers Association. The change, announced Sept. 29, makes sense, District 10 wheat board director Bill Toews said in an interview. Given the reluctance of the government to give any regulated access
Cereals, News

A Majority For Single Desk

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The Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) will fight Ottawa s plan to kill its single desk, a defiant CWB chair Allen Oberg said following a release of plebiscite results this week. Their message is loud and clear and cannot be ignored, Oberg, who farms at Forestburg, Alta., said during a news conference at a farm near
Cereals, Crops, Opinion

WCWGA Needs To Do Its Homework

It appears that the Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association’s last-ditch attempt to make itself sound as if it knew something about the world grain trade as per its Aug.
Cereals, Opinion

Wheat Growers Outlines Plan For A New CWB

The new CWB is to be reconstituted, without any monopoly or regulatory powers, effective Aug. 1, 2012 and assume all assets, liabilities and contractual commitments of the existing CWB. The new CWB Act is to provide for the issuance of share capital and for continuation of the CWB as a company under the Canada Business
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CWB Has Staff Retention Plan

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The Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) has a staff retention plan, but the marketing agency’s president and CEO isn’t discussing the details. “These are confidential matters between the staff and the CWB,” Ian White said in an interview Aug. 26. “All we’re doing is trying to… is give staff and ourself the best chance of retaining
Cereals, News

CWB Working On Open-Market Model

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The Canadian Wheat Board is working on a model for converting the single-desk seller of western barley and wheat into an open-market grain company. But for this “new entity” to survive the federal government must make major concessions, including assuming CWB employees’ pension liability, says chair Allen Oberg. “It’s our view that it’s the government’s
Cereals, News

Cwb Will Hold Farmer Vote

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Outraged open-market proponents were calling on farmers to boycott a plebiscite on grain marketing announced by the Canadian Wheat Board last week. Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz says he will place little to no value on the results. The current CWB Act requires farmers approve such a change through a vote first; the government plans to
Cereals, Opinion

Letters – for Jun. 30, 2011

Paradise? Farmers rejoice! The single- desk monopoly of the Canadian Wheat Board will soon be abolished and all will be well in the world. Farmers will prosper and “thousands” of jobs will be created. Or so they say. All this according to Rolf Penner; vice-president of the Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association (Manitoba Co-operator,June 23,

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