Wheat pool Archives - Page 16 of 28

A Majority For Single Desk

By Allan Dawson September 15, 2011

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, News

Making The Case For More Research Investment

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff September 15, 2011

The Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) has donated $500,000 to a research endowment fund at the University of Saskatchewan aimed at making Canada s grain industry more competitive. The money will be spent over 15 years, with the first phase of research examining new policies to boost agricultural research investment in Canada. For our grain to

Cereals, News

FCWB’s Court Case Continues

By Allan Dawson September 15, 2011

Legal action to force Ottawa to hold a plebiscite on whether to keep or end the Canadian Wheat Board s (CWB) single desk will be heard in Federal Court. On Sept. 9 a Federal Court prothonotary rejected the federal government s application to dismiss the Friends of the Canadian Wheat Board s (FCWB) application filed

Cereals, News

Research Key To Choosing Right Futures Broker

By Dwayne Klassen September 1, 2011

In relation to time spent on production, farmers in Canada spend very little time actually marketing their crops and even less time seeking out brokerage firms that will guide them. But with the impending end of the Canadian Wheat Board monopoly on wheat and barley in 2012, more farmers may be looking for a broker

Cereals, Crops

Near-Record Producer-Car Use

August 25, 2011

Western Canadian farmers’ use of producer cars for transporting wheat was the second highest in history in 2010-11, the Canadian Wheat Board says in a release. Farmers loaded 12,784 producer cars in the past crop year, just below the record of 12,934 set two years ago. Producer-car use has increased dramatically over the past 15

Cereals, Oilseeds, Opinion

Canola Pool, Maybe. Wheat? Probably Not

By John Morriss August 11, 2011

As we pointed out last week, opponents of the CWB monopoly are doing their best to distance themselves from the reality that ending the monopoly means ending the board altogether. They are throwing out red herrings claiming that the CWB would still be around in some fashion, including one that the board could run a

Cereals, Opinion

“Endnotes” On The CWB’s Future

By Milton Boyd August 11, 2011

The following is the endnotes from the recently published paper by the Frontier Centre for Public Policy called “Removal of the Canadian Wheat Board monopoly: Future changes for farmers and the grain industry.” The paper concludes that while the loss of the board’s monopoly will be challenging, Western Canada’s sophisticated farmers will adapt to find

Cereals, Crops

CWB Farmer Directors To Meet With Growers

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff August 4, 2011

Farmer directors for the Canadian Wheat Board will host six meetings across the Prairies in August to discuss the board’s fate if the federal government proceeds with proposed changes to its single-desk monopoly. “As farmers, we are at the eleventh hour and facing a monumental change,” said CWB board chair Allen Oberg, who farms near

Cereals, News

Bunge Eyes Canada After Wheat Monopoly

July 28, 2011

U.S. grain-trading giant Bunge Ltd. plans to expand its presence in Western Canada once the Canadian Wheat Board’s marketing monopoly is ended. “The most efficient system is a free market, a complete free market,” Bunge chief executive Alberto Weisser told theGlobe and Mail newspaper. The Conservative government says it will pass legislation this autumn to

Cereals, News

Farmers Shouldn’t Bear Cost Of CWB Winddown: KAP

By Lorraine Stevenson July 21, 2011

Keys tone Agr icul tural Producers want assurances farmers won’t be footing the bills associated with ending the Canadian Wheat Board monopoly. They also want key non-marketing services in research and market development, presently supported by farmers through the CWB, to continue. Delegates at the July general council meeting passed two carefully worded resolutions stating

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Tag Archives Wheat pool

A Majority For Single Desk

Making The Case For More Research Investment

FCWB’s Court Case Continues

Research Key To Choosing Right Futures Broker

Near-Record Producer-Car Use

Canola Pool, Maybe. Wheat? Probably Not

“Endnotes” On The CWB’s Future

CWB Farmer Directors To Meet With Growers

Bunge Eyes Canada After Wheat Monopoly

Farmers Shouldn’t Bear Cost Of CWB Winddown: KAP

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