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Court rules against ex-wheat board directors

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Former Canadian Wheat Board directors may appeal a Manitoba’s Court of Queens Bench ruling that rejected their bid to delay implementation of the federal legislation removing the board’s monopoly as of Aug. 1. “We think there are a number of areas where the judge erred and we’re considering an appeal,” Bill Toews, one of the
Cereals, News

Ritz Thirsty For Barley Freedom Beer

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When legislation Bill C-18 passes to kill the wheat board s monopoly, Gerry Ritz says he ll celebrate with a glass of barley freedom beer. It might even be made with malt from Rahr Malting in Alix, Alta., where the minister of agriculture visited Nov. 1 to celebrate the company s announcement to spend $6
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Is History Repeating Itself?

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The wheat board isn t even dead yet, but that didn t stop some Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP) delegates meeting here last week from wanting to resurrect it. I ve got an idea here, Arborg farmer Kyle Foster said during a discussion about lopsided contracts favouring grain companies Oct. 27. Why don t we pool
Cereals, News

Transition Report Rejects Regulation

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Let the market work. That s what the working group on the transition to an open market and voluntary Canadian Wheat Board Aug. 1, 2012 advises Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz in its report released Sept. 28. The government should let the open market function and intervene only where necessary to address actual market failures, the
Cereals, Crops, Oilseeds

Wheat Cash Advances To Be Administered By Canola Growers

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Ottawa has stripped the administration of wheat, durum and barley cash advances from the Canadian Wheat Board and transferred it to the Canadian Canola Growers Association. The change, announced Sept. 29, makes sense, District 10 wheat board director Bill Toews said in an interview. Given the reluctance of the government to give any regulated access
Cereals, News

A Majority For Single Desk

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The Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) will fight Ottawa s plan to kill its single desk, a defiant CWB chair Allen Oberg said following a release of plebiscite results this week. Their message is loud and clear and cannot be ignored, Oberg, who farms at Forestburg, Alta., said during a news conference at a farm near
Cereals, Crops, Opinion

WCWGA Needs To Do Its Homework

It appears that the Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association’s last-ditch attempt to make itself sound as if it knew something about the world grain trade as per its Aug.
Cereals, News

Manitoba Government’s CWB Support Criticized

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Open-market proponents are criticizing the Manitoba government for funding a campaign to let farmers decide the Canadian Wheat Board’s future through a vote. The Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association (WCWGA), the Manitoba’s Progressive Conservative opposition and federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz say the Manitoba government’s $180,000 advertising program is misguided. Premier Greg Selinger says removing
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Groups Oppose Biotech Wheat

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Groups from Canada, the United States and Australia issued a June 1 statement rejecting genetically engineered wheat in response to a pitch by industry lobbyists for commercial development of biotech wheat. “We restate our definitive opposition to GE wheat and our commitment to stopping the commercialization of GE traits in our wheat crops,” said the

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