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Support grows to keep deferred cash purchase tickets

KAP and the Western Grain Elevator Association say a proposal to end the option is bad for the grain sector

By Allan Dawson May 1, 2017

Support to retain deferred cash purchase tickets for western grain farmers is building. Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP) passed a resolution to that end at its advisory council meeting here April 20 to keep the option. The Western Grain Elevators Association (WGEA), which represents Canada’s six major grain elevator companies, also wants to keep deferred cash

Crops

Grain Growers applauds move to accelerate CGC outward inspection fee reduction

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff April 24, 2017

Grain Growers of Canada says it is pleased to see an April 22 Canada Gazette notice that proposes an early reduction of Canadian Grain Commission outward inspection fees as of August 1, 2017. The accelerated reduction is ahead of the original schedule of new user fees which would have started April 1, 2018. “This move

The original 30-kilometre radius was intended for urban centres and moving product at port. It encompassed very few grain- loading facilities: six per cent had access at 30 kilometres. Now at 160 km, 92 per cent have access.” – Fiona Cook, Grain Growers of Canada

Cereals, News

Rail regulation vital to grain farmers

Temporary measures should be extended beyond next August because they’re forcing railways to be more competitive

By Alex Binkley October 12, 2016

Prairie farmers pay the price when the railways fail to move their grain on time. That was the message farm leaders had too, to the Commons transport committee recently, as part of a pitch to extend temporary competition provisions introduced in 2014 beyond next August 1. “In the 2014-15 year Canadian farmers paid $1.4 billion

National news

Farm and food goodies in federal budget well received

Farmers will get an increased capital gains exemption when they sell the farm

By Alex Binkley May 1, 2015

Farm groups are welcoming federal budget provisions that offer long-sought-after increases in the capital gains exemption on farm sales, the manufacturing equipment depreciation allowance and trade expansion programs. Increasing the capital gains exemption to $1 million from $813,000 has been on the Canadian Federation of Agriculture’s wish list for years. Implementing it immediately will “have

Cereals, National news

Feds extend railway grain-shipping targets

Most of the industry supports the move, but millers fear it will lead to domestic changes

By Allan Dawson December 4, 2014

Ottawa’s last-minute decision to continue setting grain-shipping targets for the railways until March 28, 2015 has the support of western elevator companies and most farm groups, but not Canadian millers. “It’s good news that they are keeping the spotlight on grain transportation for this winter period,” Wade Sobkowich, executive director of the Western Grain Elevator

Crops

Farmers’ groups speak out in favour of plant breeders’ rights

The national coalition says farmers’ ability to save seed is not affected by  legislation strengthening plant breeders’ rights

By Alex Binkley May 28, 2014

A coalition of farm and agriculture supply groups are defending federal legislation to update plant breeders’ rights from attacks by the National Farmers Union, environmental organizations and the United Church of Canada. Partners in Innovation includes the Canadian Federation of Agriculture and Grain Growers of Canada, the two largest farm organizations, as well as 15

CWB’s planned purchase of grain handling and port terminal assets from the Soumat arm of Toronto’s Upper Lakes Group Inc. has renewed calls for the wheat board’s contingency fund to be paid to farmers.

Cereals, News

CWB facility purchase raises concerns

By Allan Dawson December 4, 2013

CWB Ltd. is buying handling facilities, but some farmers are wondering who’s paying the bill. CWB announced last week that it would purchase Mission Terminal, Les Élévateurs des Trois-Rivières and Services Maritimes Laviolette for an undisclosed amount. Some have concerns that the former Canadian Wheat Board’s contingency fund, which farmers claim as theirs, will bankroll

Hogs, Livestock, News

Farm groups offer cautious support to Europe trade deal

By Alex Binkley June 5, 2012

As a posse of Harper cabinet ministers and MPs fanned out across the country to round up support for a free trade deal with Europe (CETA), several farm groups offered carefully worded backing for more trans-Atlantic trade. However, as the details of the trade deal are still being negotiated, the groups carefully stuck to the

Cereals, Opinion

Letters, May 10, 2012

May 14, 2012

“Use it or lose it” comments tactless In the April 5 Manitoba Co-operator story “CWB offering new crop prices, contracts now,” by Allan Dawson, Grain Growers of Canada executive director Richard Phillips tactlessly comments that farmers need to use the CWB or lose it. This idea coming from Phillips is ironic and quite frankly foolish.

Cereals, Crops, News

Americans want to be able to deliver wheat to Canadian elevators starting Aug. 1

By Allan Dawson March 14, 2012

Canada is considering changes to its wheat quality control system making it easier for American farmers to ship wheat north of the border. “We are working on an initiative that will see the grading systems more in parallel,” Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz told reporters Feb. 24 during a telephone news conference from Washington, D.C. “Certainly

Daily Network News

Farmers see fertilizer price surge as Iran war blocks exports, threatening losses

OPINION: How the Iran war could create a ‘fertilizer shock’ – an often ignored global risk to food prices and farming

Farmers expected to boost canola area beyond Statistics Canada intentions report

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