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FCWB’s Court Case Continues

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Legal action to force Ottawa to hold a plebiscite on whether to keep or end the Canadian Wheat Board s (CWB) single desk will be heard in Federal Court. On Sept. 9 a Federal Court prothonotary rejected the federal government s application to dismiss the Friends of the Canadian Wheat Board s (FCWB) application filed
Cereals, Dairy cattle, News

Australian Trade Minister Supports End To Single Desk

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Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz has a new high-profile ally in his quest to end the Canadian Wheat Board s (CWB) single desk Australian trade minister Craig Emerson. The Australian Wheat Board s export monopoly ended in 2008 and Emerson said it has been a great success. The Australian experience has been unambiguously good, he said
Cereals, Opinion

Letters – for Sep. 8, 2011

Appreciate the coverage I extend words of appreciation for the August 25 Co-operator!The editorial highlighted good science that is well ahead of the curve when it detailed “ECO Farming.” Concerning the “new reporter,” Shannon VanRaes, please detail more of what you saw “growing up near Tillsonburg (and) “watching a way of agricultural life fade into
Cereals, News

Oberg Reacts To WCWGA Plan For Post-Monopoly CWB

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Aproposal for a revamped voluntary Canadian Wheat Board that calls for no startup capital would be “a recipe for disaster,” the board’s current chair Allen Oberg says. “If it has to operate on strictly commercial terms it will not survive for long,” the Forestburg, Alta. farmer said in response to the plan released by the
Cereals, News

Research Key To Choosing Right Futures Broker

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In relation to time spent on production, farmers in Canada spend very little time actually marketing their crops and even less time seeking out brokerage firms that will guide them. But with the impending end of the Canadian Wheat Board monopoly on wheat and barley in 2012, more farmers may be looking for a broker
Cereals, News

CWB Wind-Down Affects Delivery And Pricing Programs

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Western Canadian farmers used to marketing some of their wheat and durum later in the crop year will have fewer options in 2011-12, as the uncertain future facing the Canadian Wheat Board has caused the marketing agency to refrain from offering some of its programs. “Given the uncertainty around the 2012- 13 crop year, and
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
Cereals, Livestock, Opinion

Letters – for Sep. 1, 2011

As the District 2 CWB director, I attended the three so-called producer information meetings set up by the CWB in Medicine Hat, Camrose and Falher. Having read some of the media reports of the meetings in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, I knew that these meetings were all about politics, and an all-or-nothing message from the CWB
Cereals, News

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, Grain Markets

CWB Raises 2011-12 PROs

The Canadian Wheat Board has increased its projected returns for wheat, durum and barley in its latest Pool Return Outlook (PRO) for the 2011-12 crop year. Wheat values have increased since last month’s PRO by between $12 and $18 per tonne, depending on class, grade and protein level. Durum values have gone up between $6

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