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A sweatshirt displays the old Pool logo. The logic that compels a company like Bunge to integrate Viterra into its supply chain is the same logic that evokes nostalgia among farmers old enough to remember the wheat pools and action among younger farmers with the energy to do something about it.
Comment, Op/Ed

Comment: The return of the Wheat pool?

The time might be ripe for a revival of Prairie co-ops

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When Bunge announced its intention to purchase Viterra — the Regina-based grain handling subsidiary of Swiss mining giant Glencore — in June 2023, it represented another milestone in the slow but steady erasure of Saskatchewan’s long history with the wheat pool co-operative. Saskatchewan Wheat Pool, the once-mighty agricultural co-operative that became Viterra, is remembered by
Cockshutt horse-drawn disc and drag harrows
Our History

Cockshutt horse-drawn disc and drag harrows

Our History: May 1927

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The May 1927 issue of The Scoop Shovel also featured advertisements for tractors and automobiles, but horse-drawn implements were still featured, such as these Cockshutt disc and drag harrows. The issue featured extensive coverage of addresses to the International Wheat Pool conference in Kansas City, including speeches by the presidents of the three Prairie wheat
Become a chinchilla farmer in your spare time
Our History

Become a chinchilla farmer in your spare time

Our History: December 1968

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Prairie farming has a history of exotic livestock ventures that offered more promise than results. This ad for prospective chinchilla ranchers ran in our Dec. 5, 1968 issue. In an unusual move, we ran a front-page editorial to bring attention to the need to dry grain from the disastrous 1968 harvest. The editorial said that
grain cars at terminal
Cereals, Comment

NFU misses mark on the cause of 2013-14 grain backlog

Wheat board co-ordination can’t overcome insufficient system capacity

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The National Farmers Union (NFU) has a well-deserved reputation for doing sound analytical work. That’s why I was disappointed in its opinion piece published in the Manitoba Co-operator June 17. The NFU contends G3, the company taking over CWB — the remnants of the old wheat board — is planning to build a grain terminal
A terminal at the Port of Vancouver
Cereals, Comment, Opinion

Desire for grain price control drives G3 port plans

More port capacity will allow grain companies to widen their margins

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G3 has announced it may build a new grain terminal at the West Lynn terminal on the North Shore of Vancouver’s Burrard Inlet. G3 is the joint venture of U.S.-based multinational grain company, Bunge Ltd., and the Saudi Agricultural and Livestock Investment Co. (SALIC), owned by the Saudi government. It was given the assets of
wheat heads
Cereals, News

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

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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
John De Pape
Cereals, News

Clock ticking for company co-operation on grain price transparency

Gerry Ritz wants information posted starting Aug. 1 and John De Pape is confident the target can be met

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John De Pape is trying to get all Prairie grain companies to give him their prices so he can post regional averages starting Aug. 1, but if they don’t the federal government might have to force them to. “It’s a stick the (agriculture) minister (Gerry Ritz) has,” De Pape, president of FARMCO, told the Keystone
CWB sign
Cereals, Opinion

Support for single desk wasn’t ‘cooked up’

And farmers won’t control 
the voluntary CWB


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In the heat of debate it’s easy to forget a fact or dismiss your opponent’s argument out of hand. Perhaps that explains why Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz accused Lowe Farm farmer Dean Harder of citing a “cooked up” number when the two were sparring April 15 in Winnipeg over the privatization of CWB — the

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