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FCWB Appealing Voters’ List Ruling

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Friends of the Canadian Wheat Board (FCWB) is appealing a Federal Court decision upholding changes to the CWB’s voters’ list made by Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz in 2008. The coalition of farmers and others in support of the CWB contend Justice James Russell erred on two points in Winnipeg Jan. 29, said FCWB spokesman and
Cereals, News

Federal Court Dismisses CWB Voter List Challenge

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“By taking this to court the Friends attempted to prove that this was not just a dirty trick, but it was an illegal dirty trick.” – STEWART WELLS AFederal Court judge has dismissed a farmer group’s call for a judicial review of changes in how the voters’ list is drafted for Canadian Wheat Board director
Cereals, Opinion

Letters – for Feb. 4, 2010

Government argument insulting I spent Wednesday, Jan. 20 sitting in Federal Court in Winnipeg as a farmer-applicant on behalf of the Friends of the Canadian Wheat Board. Our case is about the voter manipulation by the federal government in 2008 in our farmer-funded Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) director elections. Instead of using the majority of
Cereals, News

Supreme Court Upholds Wheat Board Gag Order

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“We think there’s an important principle of farmer control at stake.” – LARRY HILL, CWB The Canadian Wheat Board has lost its final effort to overturn a federally imposed gag order on promoting its sales monopoly. The Supreme Court of Canada has refused to hear a CWB appeal against a lower court ruling to leave
Crops, Oilseeds

Monsanto Claims Victory In Seed Fight

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Monsanto Co. said Jan. 19 a Federal Court had ruled in its favour in a bitter dispute with key rival DuPont, finding DuPont had violated a licensing agreement in trying to combine certain genetic seed traits developed by Monsanto with its own. DuPont officials said the court decision was “narrow” allowing them to continue to
Cereals, News

FCWB Defends Wheat Board Against Ottawa In Court

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“We’re saying a minister should not be able to change or override the regulations and the voting procedures of the Canadian Wheat Board just through a simple letter of instruction and a secret one at that.” – STEWART WELLS Allegations that Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz exceeded his authority by instructing the Canadian Wheat Board to
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In Brief… – for Nov. 26, 2009

Invasive species site expands: The Invasive Species Council of Manitoba has broadened the scope of its website beyond aquatic species to provide overviews on all invasive species of concern in the province. The site, at www.invasivespeciesmanitoba.com,now includes information on “invaders” such as purple loosestrife, Dutch elm disease, leafy spurge, curly leaf pond-weed and zebra mussels.
News, Oilseeds

Monsanto Blacklists Naughty Growers

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Four southern Ontario farmers fined a total of over $90,000 for unlicensed use of Roundup Ready soybeans are the first to be banned from future use of Monsanto’s patented genetics under its “violator exclusion” policy. “One of the more significant outcomes of the case against these four growers is that it marks the first time
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Manitoba-North Dakota Border Flooding Issue Flares Up Again

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“We want all the drainage to occur as nature intended.” – NORTH DAKOTA OFFICIAL Bryon Heinrichs steers his pickup truck westward and drives cautiously along a rutted embankment with bare cropland on both sides. The fields are slowly drying out after being flooded by the spring melt four weeks earlier. That is, some fields were
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California Farms Lose Main Water Source To Drought

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California’s main source of irrigation water is expected to go dry this year for most of its growers due to drought, idling at least 60,000 workers and up to one million acres of farmland, federal officials and experts said Feb. 20. The zero allocation for most of the farmers who buy water from the federally

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