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Market analysts Brenda Tjaden Lepp and Larry Weber delivered a similar bearish outlook
Gerry Ritz says rail performance, which is being monitored, is adequate given the big crop to move
Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz says he has yet to see conclusive proof that the railways aren’t doing an adequate job moving this year’s bumper crop to market. “I hear a lot of anecdotal evidence and I follow it up and say, ‘give me the car numbers… give me the dates,’ and nobody can, nobody has,”
Production, marketing, and technology-use contracts are increasingly common but are they fair to farmers or tilted in companies’ favour?
Lots of farmers don’t like them but are production, marketing, and technology-use contracts unfair to farmers? “We still hear from our members that the contracts are typically quite one-sided,” said Doug Faller, policy manager with the Agricultural Producers of Saskatchewan. “Now with the changes to the wheat board and so on, the need for addressingProvince will consider lifting spring weight restrictions on Manitoba roads if producers need to move grain or livestock out of flood-affected areas
Manitoba producer Danny Penner says there would be less duplication and better use of checkoff dollars
A Manitoba farmer mounting an effort to create one big commodity association says a splintered voice is not only expensive, it could cost farmers control of their industry. As the number of commodity organizations collecting checkoffs continues to grow, a 5,000-acre Manitoban farmer can be paying around $20,000 a year in checkoffs, said Danny Penner,
