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The CWB Is The Single Desk

By Allan Dawson June 23, 2011

The Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) is the single desk and can’t survive without it, according to CWB chair Allen Oberg. “Whether you think that is a good thing or a bad thing is up to you,” he told farmers at the Farm Progress Show in Regina June 16. “But we must look ahead with our

Cereals, Opinion

Letters – for Jun. 23, 2011

June 23, 2011

Bipole boondoggle continues Another week, another round of rains drowning the grains and livestock sectors, another Manitoba Co-operator in the mail, and yet another letter from Rosann Wowchuk proclaiming the economic and environmental virtues of Bipole III. The former minister of agriculture gives us the same story: west side is good; east side is bad. A

Cereals, News

Let Farmers Vote On Cwb

By Allan Dawson June 16, 2011

The Manitoba government is putting up $180,000 to pressure the federal government into letting farmers decide the Canadian Wheat Board’s future through a vote. The provincial government hasn’t ruled out funding a legal challenge to prevent Ottawa from unilaterally removing the CWB’s monopoly on the sales of all western Canadian wheat and barley destined for

Cereals, News

Tories Want Ideas On Implementing CWB Change

By Alex Binkley June 16, 2011

The Canadian Wheat Board, farm groups and other grain industry stakeholders have this summer to submit their ideas to the Harper government for keeping the CWB viable without a monopoly on wheat and barley sales. David Anderson, the parliamentary secretary for the CWB, said in an interview legislation to end the monopoly won’t be presented

Cereals, Oilseeds, Opinion

Sell Or Wind Down The CWB

By Allan Dawson June 16, 2011

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, Opinion

Let Farmers Vote On CWB — It’s The Law!

By Ralph Goodale June 9, 2011

Section 47.1 of the Canadian Wheat Board Act is clear. If the minister responsible for the board wants to change the CWB’s “single-desk” marketing system, the minister must first do two things: Consult with the CWB’s board of directors; and Hold a clear, democratic vote among producers to determine whether they support the specific changes

Cereals, News

Who’s Responsible For A Viable Open-Market CWB?

By Allan Dawson June 9, 2011

Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz says the Canadian Wheat Board can survive in an open market, but it’s up to the board and the industry to figure out how. Ritz arrived for a half-hour visit at the board May 30 – his first-ever foray into its downtown offices – to inform officials there what he had

Cereals, News

Struthers Opposes Ottawa’s Open-Market Move

By Allan Dawson June 9, 2011

With many Manitoba farmers struggling to seed this year’s crop, news that the Canadian Wheat Board’s (CWB) sales monopoly will end Aug. 1, 2012 comes at a bad time, says Manitoba Agriculture Minister Stan Struthers. “The last thing they needed was to have the federal Conservative government come along and run a knife through the

Cereals, News

Show Farmers A Workable Plan

By Allan Dawson May 26, 2011

The federal government must demonstrate the Canadian Wheat Board’s (CWB) long-term viability in an open market or take responsibility for winding it down, says Keystone Agricultural Producers’ president Doug Chorney. “Show me a business plan that the wheat board is actually going to function in a dual market,” the farmer from East Selkirk said in

Cereals, Crops

Cargill Calls For Orderly End To Orderly Marketing

By Rod Nickel May 19, 2011

The Canadian government should give the grain industry at least six months to adjust before ending the Canadian Wheat Board’s grain monopoly, the chief executive of Cargill’s Canadian subsidiary said May 11. A good time for the change, which would allow Western Canada’s farmers to sell their wheat and barley to anyone they choose instead

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The CWB Is The Single Desk

Letters – for Jun. 23, 2011

Let Farmers Vote On Cwb

Tories Want Ideas On Implementing CWB Change

Sell Or Wind Down The CWB

Let Farmers Vote On CWB — It’s The Law!

Who’s Responsible For A Viable Open-Market CWB?

Struthers Opposes Ottawa’s Open-Market Move

Show Farmers A Workable Plan

Cargill Calls For Orderly End To Orderly Marketing

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