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Letters — for Feb. 2, 2012

Are court cases really baseless Mr. Ritz? It was really quite funny to watch the minister of agriculture strut around in front of his flock at the recent Western Canadian Wheat Growers conference. He used his bully pulpit to call the recent court cases, against his government implementing legislation dismantling of the Canadian Wheat Board’s
Cereals, Opinion

Can Ritz Deliver On His Promises?

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The federal government has promised western Canadian farmers they can have the Canadian Wheat Board and an open market too. Most farmers assume the only major change to the wheat board will be the loss of its monopoly over the sale of western Canadian wheat and barley destined for export or domestic human consumption. The
Cereals, News

Oberg Criticized For Defeatist Attitude

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The heated debate over the future of the Canadian Wheat Board rose a few more degrees last week with the Grain Growers of Canada (GGC) and the Western Grain Elevators Association (WGEA) accusing the CWB’s directors of not trying hard enough. GGC executive director Richard Phillips lambasted CWB chair Allan Oberg for taking a defeatist
Cereals, Oilseeds, Opinion

Sell Or Wind Down The CWB

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Rhetoric is “language designed to have a persuasive or impressive effect on its audience, but is often regarded as lacking in sincerity or meaningful content.” There’s been lots of it in the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) debate. But push came to shove with the election of a majority Conservative government May 2. The government says
Cereals, Crops

CWB Deal Not What Most Shippers Want

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Shippers frustrated by inadequate rail service won’t likely be keen to copy an agreement struck by CP and the Canadian Wheat Board to improve grain shipments. The agreement is short on specifics especially whether it contains any financial penalties for non-performance, said Bob Ballantyne, president of the Canadian Industrial Transportation Agency. The railways want to
Cereals, News

New Rail Service Rules Welcomed

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After months if not years of lobbying, the grain industry got what it wanted last week – government action on rail service. And while shippers say they’re cautiously optimistic, some organization officials say it’s exactly what they’ve asked for. At an announcement made at a Paterson elevator near Winnipeg last week, Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz,
News

CP Working To Improve Grain-Shipping Service

Canadian Pacific Railway says avalanches and more orders to move grain than were forecasted are why its service is slow. “We are working to understand capacity needs and we are focused on implementing service reliability initiatives,” CP spokesperson Breanne Feigel said last week in response to complaints from the Western Grain Elevator Association (WGEA). “We
Crops

Poor CP Service Blasted By WGEA

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CP Rail’s grain-shipping service has never been worse in living memory, according to the Western Grain Elevator Association (WGEA), prompting it to renew calls for federal legislation to improve it. “We expected the upcoming release of the Rail Service Report to result in improved service by the railways in an attempt to counter the serious
Cereals, News

Variety Declarations Put To Test

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The Canadian Wheat Board is being sued for more than $50 million by a Saskatchewan farm that has its delivery contract cancelled for delivering an ineligible variety of Red Spring wheat. But industry officials say the lawsuit by Hudye Farms Inc. and two associated companies is really a test of the four-year-old grain variety declaration

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