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FNA wants more time for CWB bid

Is a sale being sped up ahead of the next federal election?

By Allan Dawson October 24, 2014

Farmers of North America (FNA) says with harvest delays it needs another six to eight weeks to pitch its plan for farmers to buy CWB from the federal government. But FNA president and CEO James Mann fears CWB will be sold first — probably to a foreign multinational grain company. “I would say I don’t

Cereals, Opinion

Puttin’ on the Ritz: are the railways next?

Gerry Ritz won the wheat board battle, now it’s time for a new challenge

By Allan Dawson August 26, 2014

Gerry Ritz slew the Canadian Wheat Board, but can he rein in the railways? If anyone can, it’s Canada’s 33rd minister of agriculture. It won’t be easy, but neither was ending the wheat board’s 69-year-old monopoly. Ritz had help. Key was Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who had a deep disdain for the board and made

Cereals, News

CWB building, buying spree continues

The company could cut its federal ties early

By Allan Dawson April 24, 2014

CWB’s multimillion-dollar building and buying spree on its path to early privatization continues with the proposed purchase of Prairie West Terminal and its four elevators for $43.13 million. And it’s not done yet. “Our aim is to ultimately have a proper network of port and country facilities and this is a very important stepping stone

Black and white photo of a prairie grain elevator.

Cereals, News

Farmers of yesteryear protected western wheat quality

Blending wheats of different grades was a scandalous crime that drew action from the PMO’s office

By Manitoba Agricultural Museum April 22, 2014

Determined to Remove Grievance of Farmers: Sir Wilfred Declares Government Has Secured Evidence of Mixing of Wheat and is Pledged to Punish the Guilty Parties” So reads the title of a front-page article in the Manitoba Free Press of Tuesday, July 19, 1910. The body of the news article reports on a meeting between the

Cereals, Crops, Opinion

The grain market needs a dose of ‘good cholesterol’

More regulation is not the solution to improving grain transportation

By John De Pape April 21, 2014

Just as there is both good cholesterol and bad cholesterol, there are both good and bad regulations. The CWB single desk was an example of a bad regulation — it clogged the arteries of western Canadian grain commerce by burdening farmers with high costs and no evidence of premium prices. Markets are efficient and effective

Grain auger filling a railway car with grain.

Cereals, Crops

Producer car orders on hold for 2014-15

The new program will make producer car ordering seamless between crop years

By Allan Dawson April 15, 2014

Producer car orders for next crop year are on hold until the Canadian Grain Commission (CGC) launches its new online application process, expected soon, says CGC spokesman Remi Gosselin. “If producers have already submitted an application for producer cars for the crop year 2014-15 they will resubmit their application when we begin accepting them through

Cereals, Crops, Opinion

New insights into Canadian Wheat Board orderly marketing

Markets work best when unfettered and there is competition

By Allan Dawson April 14, 2014

I have a new understanding of the term “orderly marketing.” I once thought of it simply as the approach the now defunct single-desk Canadian Wheat Board took to selling western Canadian wheat and barley. You know — pricing to market, not flooding markets to avoid driving prices down and providing equitable delivery opportunity for farmers.

Cereals, Crops, News

Single desk would have saved billions: former CWB director

‘Orderly marketing’ would have removed pressure of surplus grain on the market

By Allan Dawson April 8, 2014

Farmers probably would not have delivered much more grain under the former wheat board’s single desk this crop year, but they would be billions of dollars richer, according to a former CWB elected director. Ian McCreary, a farmer at Bladworth, Sask. and a former CWB staff analyst, said that’s because farmers would not be losing

Cereals, Crops, News, News & Opinion

Transportation crisis boosts grain company profits

There’s an extraordinary difference between country and port prices

By Allan Dawson March 31, 2014

Farmers unable to move crops this winter have had plenty of time to notice the difference between what grain companies are paying in the country and selling for off the West Coast. “Our calculations demonstrate the grain companies have taken over $1.6 billion in excess profits from wheat alone so far this crop year,” said

Cereals, News

Railways cut producer car sites

CP Rail says the points it dropped weren’t being used, but KAP says farmers need more options, not less

By Allan Dawson February 26, 2014

The railways recently cut 19 producer car loading sites across the West even though farmers are using producer cars more than ever as they struggle to get a record crop to market. “If anything we need more producer car sites, not less,” Keystone Agricultural Producers’ (KAP) president Doug Chorney said in an interview. “KAP’s policy

Daily Network News

Selling GMO tomato seeds to Canadian gardeners ‘reckless’ say advocates

U.S. grains: Wheat recovers on short covering, soy continues to fall

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures lower on falling beef prices, selling

Tag Archives Wheat pool

FNA wants more time for CWB bid

Puttin’ on the Ritz: are the railways next?

CWB building, buying spree continues

Farmers of yesteryear protected western wheat quality

The grain market needs a dose of ‘good cholesterol’

Producer car orders on hold for 2014-15

New insights into Canadian Wheat Board orderly marketing

Single desk would have saved billions: former CWB director

Transportation crisis boosts grain company profits

Railways cut producer car sites

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