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Agri-Retailers Seek Federal Aid For Security Measures

By Ron Friesen June 4, 2009

“We cannot, nor should not have to, pay the entire bill to secure crop inputs.” – DAVID MACKAY, CAAR Canada’s farm supply dealers have renewed their call for federal assistance in upgrading agriretail sites to meet new and incoming security protocols. Agri-retailers want Ottawa to cover half of the estimated $100 million cost of implementing

Cereals, News, Pulses

Canada Pursues FTAs In Peru, Colombia

By Allan Dawson May 28, 2009

Canadian wheat and pulse growers need Canada to ratify free trade deals with Peru and Colombia to stay competitive with Argentina and the United States. Wheat import tariffs have historically been as high as 17 per cent into Peru and 15 per cent into Colombia. Without a free trade deal, tariffs could cut Canadian grain

Cereals, News

GGC Promotes CWB Voter List Reform

By Alex Binkley May 28, 2009

Grain Growers of Canada has proposed to work co-operatively with the Canadian Wheat Board to deal with complaints about the fairness of the agency’s voters’ list. Richard Phillips, the GGC’s executive director, told the House of Commons’ agriculture committee May 14 that it’s time to end the complaints that come after every election for the

Cereals, News

Canadian Wheat Board Sees Balanced Contingency Fund

By Rod Nickel May 21, 2009

The Canadian Wheat Board expects its contingency fund to balance this year after volatile grain prices caused a $28.9 million ($24.7 million) deficit last year and fuelled fresh government criticism of the grain-marketing agency. The fund underwrites the risk of non-traditional payment programs that are designed to give farmers flexibility to price some of their

Opinion

More Than A Name

By Laura Rance-Unger April 16, 2009

Over much of Saskatchewan it was common for farmers en route to town to become trapped in soil drifts across the roads in summer as by snowdrifts in winter. – MEN AGAINST THE DESERT, JAMES H. GRAY 1967 Few of us can imagine much less remember the conditions that brought the Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration

Cereals, News

Canadian Wheat Board Branding Effort Two Years Later

By Rod Nickel April 9, 2009

Amarketing strategy to give Canadian wheat an identity like the iconic Juan Valdez for Colombian coffee growers is a long-term attempt to increase demand, but one grain expert says it will be a stiff challenge. The Canadian Wheat Board, which has a government-granted monopoly on wheat and barley sales from Western Canada, the country’s major

News

Southwestern Cattle Producers Demand Drought Aid

By Ron Friesen April 2, 2009

“A disaster is a disaster.” – LARRY MAGUIRE, MLA Last year, flooded Interlake farmers who couldn’t harvest hay complained they were on an unequal footing with drought-stricken producers in southwestern Manitoba. Now cattle producers in the southwest region say they should get the same government assistance as their Interlake colleagues received last month because they’re

Hogs, News

Hog Farmers Seek Emergency Government Aid

By Ron Friesen March 26, 2009

“What’s worse? Having no industry or having countervail?” – JURGEN PREUGSCHAS, CPC ACanadian Pork Council meeting April 2 will propose an emergency government aid program as hog farmers enter the third year of their worst economic crisis in memory. The CPC safety net committee will look for new ways to help beleaguered pork producers because

Cereals, News

Wheat Board Prepares For A Diminished Grain Commission

By Allan Dawson March 19, 2009

“(The amendments are intended to) only regulate where necessary and to devolve programs or services that would be appropriately provided by the private sector…” – jim smolik, cgc commissioner Call it “Plan B.” With the Conservative government’s Bill C-13 proposing to reduce the role of the Canadian Grain Commission (CGC), the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB)

Beef cattle, Hogs, Livestock, News

Red Meat Industry Trying To Survive

By Alex Binkley March 12, 2009

Governments need to show more concern for the survival of the red meat industry and worry less about countervailing action because some provinces are willing to support livestock producers, pork and beef groups have told the House of Commons’ agriculture committee. Jurgen Preugschas, president of the Canadian Pork Council, told the MPs March 5, “It’s

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Agri-Retailers Seek Federal Aid For Security Measures

Canada Pursues FTAs In Peru, Colombia

GGC Promotes CWB Voter List Reform

Canadian Wheat Board Sees Balanced Contingency Fund

More Than A Name

Canadian Wheat Board Branding Effort Two Years Later

Southwestern Cattle Producers Demand Drought Aid

Hog Farmers Seek Emergency Government Aid

Wheat Board Prepares For A Diminished Grain Commission

Red Meat Industry Trying To Survive

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