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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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CWB Working On Open-Market Model

By Allan Dawson July 14, 2011

The Canadian Wheat Board is working on a model for converting the single-desk seller of western barley and wheat into an open-market grain company. But for this “new entity” to survive the federal government must make major concessions, including assuming CWB employees’ pension liability, says chair Allen Oberg. “It’s our view that it’s the government’s

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Wheat Board Should Get On With New Role: Richardson

By Rod Nickel July 14, 2011

The Canadian Wheat Board should not receive ongoing government help after its grain-marketing monopoly ends, but needs to quickly plan for a new role, the head of Richardson International Limited, Canada’s second-largest grain handler, said on July 7. Canada’s Conservative government, which holds a majority of seats in the House of Commons, plans to pass

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CWB Fate Clouds Agriculture Ministers’ Meeting

By Alex Binkley July 14, 2011

Canada’s agriculture ministers agreed on food policy development and improved support programs for farmers, but the results of their annual meeting were overshadowed by debate on the Canadian Wheat Board’s fate. The meeting in St. Andrews, N.B. featured a green light for further development of a National Food Strategy (NFS) under the aegis of the

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CWB, Crow Fights Have Something In Common: Alberta

By Allan Dawson July 14, 2011

Efforts to end the Canadian Wheat Board’s (CWB) single desk are reminiscent of the battle to kill the Crow Rate, says pollster David Herle. Both went on for years, eventually wearing down farmer resistance and “these are both Alberta agendas,” said Herle, principal partner in the Gandalf Group, which surveys farmers for the CWB. “The

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Letters – for Jun. 30, 2011

June 30, 2011

Paradise? Farmers rejoice! The single- desk monopoly of the Canadian Wheat Board will soon be abolished and all will be well in the world. Farmers will prosper and “thousands” of jobs will be created. Or so they say. All this according to Rolf Penner; vice-president of the Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association (Manitoba Co-operator,June 23,

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Oberg Criticized For Defeatist Attitude

By Allan Dawson June 30, 2011

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

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More Than 5,100 Signed Petition For CWB Vote

By Allan Dawson June 30, 2011

As of June 24 more than 5,100 people had signed the Manitoba government’s online petition calling on the federal government to let farmers vote on whether or not to create an open market for wheat and barley Aug. 1, 2012. That figure doesn’t include those who have signed petitions in Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural

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Cwb Vote Issue Heads To Court

By Allan Dawson June 30, 2011

Friends of the Canadian Wheat Board (FCWB) is asking the Federal Court to block the federal government from abolishing the Canadian Wheat Board’s (CWB) statutory single marketing authority for wheat and barley. The FCWB, a coalition of farmers and other Canadians in support of a democratic, farmer-controlled CWB, was to apply for a judicial review

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Happy Trails

By Laura Rance-Unger June 30, 2011

TheManitoba Co-operatoris saying farewell this week to veteran farm reporter Ron Friesen, who after 23 years on the farm beat, has decided to pursue other interests. We hesitate to use the word “retire” because it’s hard to imagine a prolific writer and reporter like Ron quitting the keyboard cold turkey. Nevertheless, his resignation presents us

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Farmers Shouldn’t Bear Cost Of CWB Winddown: KAP

CWB Working On Open-Market Model

Wheat Board Should Get On With New Role: Richardson

CWB Fate Clouds Agriculture Ministers’ Meeting

CWB, Crow Fights Have Something In Common: Alberta

Letters – for Jun. 30, 2011

Oberg Criticized For Defeatist Attitude

More Than 5,100 Signed Petition For CWB Vote

Cwb Vote Issue Heads To Court

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