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CWB voter eligibility changes justified

We welcome readers’comments on issues that have been covered in the Manitoba Co-operator. In most cases we cannot accept “open” letters or copies of letters which have been sent to several publications. Letters are subject to editing for length or taste. We suggest a maximum of about 300 words. When your Conservative government introduced legislation
Cereals, Opinion

Dissecting Co-Operatives’ Demise

With several large agriculture co-ops facing the same issues at roughly the same time frame, one has to ask – are these isolated events or are they part of some larger pattern? Co-ops are one of our shopping options– Co-op Marketplace grocery stores, credit unions, Co-op Gas Bars and C-stores, Mountain Equipment Co-op– and they
Cereals, Oilseeds, Opinion

CWB election changes undemocratic

I am responding to recently proposed legislation regarding Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) voting rules. These proposed changes do two things at the same time: take small producers off of the voters’ list even if they market their grain through the CWB and thereby help pay the costs of the organization, while at the same time
Cereals, News

Bill C-27 To Change Voting Criteria

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Farmers who want to vote in Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) elections will have had to produce 40 tonnes of grain in the current or previous two crop years if Bill C-27 becomes law. The Canadian Wheat Board Payments and Election Reform Act introduced in the House of Commons last week also promises to process CWB
Cereals, Livestock, Opinion

Letters – for Apr. 15, 2010

Disastrous economic development The warning previews are being posted, as John Oliver speaks out on global energy, with food and water shortages on the horizon. (March 25 Manitoba Co-operator story by Daniel Winters.) We read that more than one billion people go hungry every single day and have little or no clean water to drink,
Cereals, Crops

Outgoing Director Cites Single-Desk Advantages

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“They are still in a position where their ability to put legislation through on the wheat board is doubtful, but I don’t have any illusions that if they were in a majority situation they would move pretty swiftly on their commitments.” – BILL NICHOLSON Outgoing Canadian Wheat Board director Bill Nicholson predicts that the Conservatives
Cereals, News

CWB To Hustle Grain Out Of Red River Valley

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With overland flooding again expected in the southern portion of Manitoba’s Red River Valley, the Canadian Wheat Board plans to make room at area elevators for affected farmers to bring in their accepted grain now. The CWB said March 12 it would put a program in place to help farmers who may have grain at
Cereals, News

Brisk Grain Movement Coming

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The Canadian Wheat Board is on track to meet its export target of 19.3 million tonnes of wheat, durum and barley this year thanks to unusually good rail service, farmers here were told last week. “In my 10 or 11 years at the wheat board this is probably their (railways) best year next to last
Cereals, Opinion

Only actual producers should vote

I would like to respond to the inaccuracies and misconceptions left by Allan Dawson in his article “Who controls the CWB, farmers or Ottawa?” in the March 4 Manitoba Co-operator. The Friends of the Canadian Wheat Board (FCWB) assertion is that everyone who holds a permit book deserves a ballot. Western Canadian producers have told
Cereals, Opinion

Farmers’ Right To Choose

In his letter in the March 4 issue of the Manitoba Co-operator, Canadian Wheat Board director Bill Toews raises a question about a voluntary Canadian Wheat Board that all farmers should be asking their board of directors; “If such a thing was workable for farmers, why would it not be in place today?” The simple

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