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The United Grain Growers 45,000-bushel elevator at Minnedosa in 1969.
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Comment: Looking back at when co-ops ruled the elevator business

A new book reveals new information on the last days of the Prairie grain co-ops

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If you’re younger, you may find it hard to believe that farmers used to own most of the Prairie grain and grain-processing industry and that they received part of the profits every year. If you’re older, you may know that, but wonder how that changed so quickly. And did it have to change? That’s the
The Rise and Fall of United Grain Growers was not an easy book to write, its author Paul Earl told a crowd attending the book’s launch at McNally Robinson’s
Grant Park store in Winnipeg Nov. 4.
Farmit Manitoba, News, Other

Book chronicles the rise and fall of farmer-owned grain companies

Paul Earl concludes Agricore United didn’t have to be sacrificed on the altar of shareholder primacy

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What began in 2004 as a history of United Grain Growers (UGG) founded in 1906, morphed into a chronicling of the birth and death of the West’s farmer-owned, co-operative grain companies and an investigation and challenging of the notion of shareholder primacy, which delivered the final blow to farmer dominance in the grain business and
Brian McMullan spent one of his final days on the job working in the grading area at Richardson Pioneer.
Country Crossroads, Local news, Other

Bidding farewell to the grain industry

Brian McMullan retires after being a part of it for 40-plus years

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Hard work, dusty quarters, and small truckloads of grain have given way to much quicker means of moving large volumes of product from the bin to the port in recent years. And for over four decades, Brian McMullan of Shoal Lake has been a part of it all. But after 40-plus years, McMullan retired from
Roseisle businessman George Payette has no shortage of work as he travels across Manitoba and Saskatchewan doing repairs and maintenance work on some of the last remaining country elevators in the two provinces.
Country Crossroads

The elevator repairman

Country elevators are a rarer site nowadays. George Payette’s business is keeping those few left in good working order

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Country elevators are disappearing, but so long as George Payette can swing a sledgehammer or pound a nail, a few lone survivors stand a chance. Payette’s business is elevator repair and maintenance, making him the guy farmers who now own these sites regularly call when a roof, siding or cribbing needs work, or a foundation
Don’t miss out on UGG shares
Our History

Don’t miss out on UGG shares

Our History: January 1993

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In 1993, United Grain Growers was in transition to being a partly publicly traded company, and this ad in our Jan. 21 issue alerted members that they were entitled to common shares if they had hauled grain to UGG in the previous six years. One of the headlines that issue was “More tough times possible,”
A cartoonist’s view of the grain trade
Our History

A cartoonist’s view of the grain trade

Our History: December 1908

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The December 1908 issue of The Grain Growers’ Guide offered this explanation of the roles of the various players in the grain trade, of whom the cartoonist apparently took a dim view. The Grain Growers’ Guide was at the time the “Official organ” of the Manitoba Grain Growers Association and the Grain Growers’ Grain Company,
Hostile takeover bid for UGG launched
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Hostile takeover bid for UGG launched

Our History: July 1997

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In March of 1997, Manitoba Pool and Alberta Wheat Pool joined to launch a hostile takeover bid of United Grain Growers. UGG fought off the offer with a “poison pill” defence to lower its share values, and the Pools later dropped the takeover attempt. However, UGG continued with a defence strategy against future takeovers and
Lorne Hehn, shown here in an undated photo, was a southern Saskatchewan farmer before becoming UGG’s president in Winnipeg in 1981. (Grainews file photo)
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Former UGG, CWB chief Lorne Hehn, 79

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Lorne Hehn, at his funeral last week, was remembered as the Saskatchewan farmer-turned-businessman who led the Canadian Wheat Board toward its next-to-last incarnation as a farmer-controlled marketing agency. Hehn, who died Sept. 16 at age 79, had farmed at Markinch, about 65 km north of Regina, and was involved in several farm organizations, becoming a

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