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Time To Stop Embracing Change

The good old days weren’t always so good if you were an elevator manager, or especially an elevator manager’s assistant. You had to be pretty handy with a shovel when you were loading a boxcar. Then you had to “cooper” those cars before shipment, sealing the doors with kraft paper and wooden or metal “grain
Cereals, Opinion

Putting Farmers First A Priority

I am writing in response to a letter to the editor re: “Farmers need equal treatment” in the February 17 issue of the Manitoba Co-operator. Sagan needs to get his facts straight on the Canadian Wheat Board. For over 65 years, western Canadian grain farmers have had no choice in the marketing and distribution of
Cereals, Opinion

The Business Case For Farmers Owning Lake Freighters

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The Canadian Wheat Board has decided to purchase two lake vessels, based on a very strong business case that will result in significant economic benefits for Prairie farmers. This investment will generate revenue for decades to come, and pay for itself many times over – just as CWB ownership of rail hopper cars has done.
Cereals, Opinion

Letters – for Feb. 17, 2011

Wheat sold at a loss The 2009 crop took a year to get all the money from the Canadian Wheat Board. My cost to plant and harvest 160 acres was $25,897. When I got my last payment of $23,686 I lost $2,211 and did not charge for labour. I got $2.45 per bushel for No.
Cereals, Opinion

Farmers Need Equal Treatment

Gerry Ritz doesn’t understand the wishes of western farmers who do not want to give up the Canadian Wheat Board in favour of the open-market system that the U.S. and Australia
Cereals, News

Voluntary CWB Proposed In Bill C-619

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Ontario MP Bruce Stanton has introduced a private members’ bill to end the Canadian Wheat Board’s singledesk marketing authority. Bill C-619 would give farmers the ability to “opt out” of having to market their wheat and barley destined for export or domestic human consumption through the CWB for at least two years at a time.
Cereals, Opinion

CWB Director Has His Facts Wrong

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In the Jan. 6 issueManitoba Co-operator,Canadian Wheat Board-elected director Bill Woods takes aim at the railways for what he calls “slick accounting.” Unfortunately, Woods has his facts wrong, which makes his whole argument meaningless. The annual review of regulated rail rates and charges showed that the revenue of CN and CP came in under the
Cereals, News

Grain Rally Less Speculative Than In 2008: Ritz

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The recent rally in grain and oilseed prices is based more on concerns about crop levels than on speculation by investors, Canada’s agriculture minister said Jan. 17. Prices of crops such as wheat, corn, soybeans and canola are at their highest levels in more than 2-1/2 years amid flooding in Australia and dryness in Argentina.
Cereals, News

Revenue Cap Accounting Questioned

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CN and CP won’t face penalties for exceeding their revenue caps in the crop year that ended July 31, even though farmers paid about $6 per tonne above those caps to ship their grain. The railways collectively were $5.4 million or 17 cents a tonne under the Canadian Transportation Agency’s (CTA) revenue cap of almost
Cereals, News

CGC Seeks A Doubling Of Fees

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The Canadian Grain Commission wants to more than double its service fees in anticipation that Ottawa will soon cut back support for the agency. Under the proposal, fees, which have been frozen since 1991, could average $1.80 a tonne, up from about 70 cents, said CGC spokesman Remi Gosselin. “We are getting 50 per cent

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