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G3 CEO Karl Gerrand was interviewed by Manitoba Co-operator editor Laura Rance during the Cereals of North America meeting  in Winnipeg Nov. 3.

G3 boss lays out strategy for new company’s success

Karl Gerrand also calls for continued government-funded agricultural  research and grain quality control

By Allan Dawson November 13, 2015

Patient capital and faster grain handling will help G3 squeeze into a mature, tight marketplace, says Karl Gerrand, chief executive officer of Western Canada’s newest grain company. “Our vision is to create an enterprise that focuses on high-efficiency movement,” Gerrand told Manitoba Co-operator editor Laura Rance Nov. 3 on stage at the Cereals North America

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CWB sale to be scrutinized by new Liberal government

But veteran MP Ralph Goodale says the wheat board’s monopoly won’t be restored

By Allan Dawson November 5, 2015

The Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) won’t be restored under the new Liberal government, but farmers could finally see its books, kept secret since the government removed its marketing monopoly in 2012. “A number of farmers has raised the question and said the numbers just don’t add up,” Saskatchewan MP and former agriculture minister Ralph Goodale

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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

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Mixed reaction to sale details: some like it not, some like it sold

Opponents say the lack of farmer control and foreign ownership is offensive while others are glad the deal is done

By Allan Dawson April 23, 2015

The Friends of the Canadian Wheat Board (FCWB) and National Farmers Union and federal NDP oppose the sale. “This was just another step in the largest transfer of wealth away from farmers in the history of this country,” said FCWB chair Stewart Wells who farms at Swift Current, Sask., and served as an elected wheat

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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

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U.S. livestock: Cattle slip back, hogs gain

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Farm gate milk price to rise in 2026

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G3 boss lays out strategy for new company’s success

CWB sale to be scrutinized by new Liberal government

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

Mixed reaction to sale details: some like it not, some like it sold

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

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