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G3 to build Hamilton port terminal for Ont. grain

The grain company formerly known as CWB plans to build up a market share in Ontario grain and oilseed handling for export, with a new Lake Ontario terminal at Hamilton. G3 Canada announced Tuesday it will build a new lake terminal at the Port of Hamilton to ship crops out of southern Ontario en route

G3 CEO Karl Gerrand, shown here in April in Winnipeg, said the company isn’t particularly interested in making a move on Glencore’s Viterra assets. (Dave Bedard photo)

Crops, Markets

Not much interest in Glencore ag assets at grain firm G3

By GFM Network News, Rod Nickel October 13, 2015

Winnipeg | Reuters –– Grain handler G3 Canada, a joint venture between a Saudi Arabian firm and Bunge Ltd., doesn’t have much interest in bidding for a stake in rival Glencore’s agricultural business, its chief executive said Tuesday. Swiss-based Glencore, the trader and miner whose shares have been battered by the commodities slump, is looking

Cereals, Comment, Opinion

Desire for grain price control drives G3 port plans

More port capacity will allow grain companies to widen their margins

By Jan Slomp June 24, 2015

G3 has announced it may build a new grain terminal at the West Lynn terminal on the North Shore of Vancouver’s Burrard Inlet. G3 is the joint venture of U.S.-based multinational grain company, Bunge Ltd., and the Saudi Agricultural and Livestock Investment Co. (SALIC), owned by the Saudi government. It was given the assets of

Western Stevedoring’s Lynnterm Terminal, shown here, is now the subject of a feasibility study as the possible site of a new export terminal for Prairie grain. (Colin Jewell photo courtesy Port Metro Vancouver)

Crops, Markets

CWB’s chosen suitor weighs West Coast terminal idea

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff June 2, 2015

The new Prairie grain player tapped to take a majority stake in the former Canadian Wheat Board is now considering the possibility of its own port terminal. Bunge Canada and Saudi-owned crown corporation SALIC Canada, in their joint venture G3 Global Holdings, have agreed to a separate joint venture with West Coast port logistics firm

Cereals, News

Farmers of North America contends its plan for privatized CWB was better than G3’s

FNA wants to work with CWB to make grain handling and fertilizer distribution more efficient for farmers

By Allan Dawson May 4, 2015

Farmers of North America (FNA) didn’t get the chance to turn CWB into a farmer-owned company, but it’s still willing to work with the new owners, officials said last week. James Mann, president of the Saskatoon-based FNA, said under its proposal farmers would have owned 100 per cent of the company, as opposed to the

Crops, Editorial

Editorial: The farmers’ (equity) trust in the CWB

The sale of the CWB to Global Grain Group leaves many new questions for Prairie farmers

By Laura Rance-Unger April 27, 2015

The farmers’ equity component is perhaps the most puzzling aspect of last week’s announcement that CWB has been sold. We can see the advantages to the Harper government of getting the company off its books. Moving the western Canadian grain-marketing system to an open market was an election promise that came with baggage; the administration

National news

Newly created buyer G3 to take majority ownership of government-owned CWB

Farmers can earn equity in CWB by delivering grain but it won’t be farmer controlled

By Allan Dawson April 23, 2015

When the Canadian Wheat Board had a monopoly to market western wheat and barley, grain farmers controlled its operation. But they didn’t own it. Now farmers who deliver grain to CWB can collectively own up to 49.9 per cent through a farmers’ trust, but they will have no control and little input. Control is with

G3 CEO Karl Gerrand, shown here Wednesday in Winnipeg, says the new company is interested in further ag-related investments across the country. (Dave Bedard photo)

Crops, Markets

G3 sees opportunities to expand in Canadian ag sector

By GFM Network News, Tom Polansek April 16, 2015

Reuters — A joint venture of a state-owned Saudi Arabian investment firm and U.S. grain trader Bunge is interested in making further investments in Canada’s farm sector after striking a deal to take control of grain handler CWB, the new j.v.’s CEO said Wednesday. G3 Global Grain Group, a joint venture of Bunge and Saudi

“I don’t see farmers shying away” from taking equity in CWB, Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz said Wednesday. (Dave Bedard photo)

Crops, Markets

Guenther: Farmers keep minority stake in CWB, for now

By GFM Network News, Lisa Guenther April 15, 2015

While G3 Global Grain Group is set to scoop a majority stake in CWB, grain farmers will be able to hold onto some equity in the former Canadian Wheat Board over the next seven years at the least. G3 is a new joint venture between Bunge Canada and Saudi Agricultural and Livestock Investment (SALIC) Canada,

Daily Network News

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G3 to build Hamilton port terminal for Ont. grain

Not much interest in Glencore ag assets at grain firm G3

Desire for grain price control drives G3 port plans

CWB’s chosen suitor weighs West Coast terminal idea

Farmers of North America contends its plan for privatized CWB was better than G3’s

Editorial: The farmers’ (equity) trust in the CWB

Newly created buyer G3 to take majority ownership of government-owned CWB

G3 sees opportunities to expand in Canadian ag sector

Guenther: Farmers keep minority stake in CWB, for now

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