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Colourful, but effective

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Both Alex Binkley and Allan Dawson relate some memories of the accomplishments of the late Eugene Whelan elsewhere in this issue, but we can’t let him leave us without noting one ambition he failed to achieve. Whelan desperately wanted to be minister responsible for the Canadian Wheat Board (never making a secret of it) but
Cereals, Crops, News, Oilseeds, Pulses

A new wheat and barley association another step closer

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Manitoba farmers are a step closer to establishing a new spring wheat and barley association to collect voluntary checkoffs for wheat and barley research and marketing. An interim seven-member board of directors met Feb. 15 in Winnipeg and Dauphin-area farmer Don Dewar, a former president of the Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP), was selected as chair.
Cereals, Crops, News

CWB says ad met its objective

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The chief strategy officer for CWB says the agency stands by its controversial ad depicting a cowgirl stuck on a fence, saying most people like it. “We’ve got more feedback than I ever expected,” said Dayna Spiring about the ad that has been running in farm newspapers in recent weeks. Spiring acknowledged there have been
Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets, News

CWB privatizing sooner than later

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The CWB is talking to potential partners about taking the government-owned grain company private sooner than later. “We’ve been talking to people already in the grain industry and people who are not and want to invest in it,” Gord Flaten, the CWB’s vice-president for grain procurement, told reporters Jan. 16 after speaking at Ag Days.
Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets, News

Supreme Court hammers another nail in wheat board’s coffin

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But the Friends of the Canadian Wheat Board 
will continue to pursue a class-action lawsuit for 
$17 billion in compensation

With their appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada rejected, the Friends of the Canadian Wheat Board (FCWB) are vowing to continue with a class-action lawsuit, their last remaining legal avenue for challenging the federal government’s decision to end the board’s monopoly last year. The Supreme Court has refused to hear appeals of the eight
Cereals, News

Let the good times roll

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Some scoffed when federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz said farmers wouldn’t have to start their trucks in winter because in an open market they could deliver all their wheat in fall. Not Norm Mabon. The Notre Dame de Lourdes farmer did just as Ritz forecast. “One hundred per cent of my wheat was sold and
Cereals, Crops, News

Railway revenues rekindle costing review calls

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Canada’s two major railways once again tipped over the statutory cap revenues for shipping grain during the 2011-12 crop year — costing farmers an extra two cents per tonne. “It underscores again the need for a costing review to parallel the (rail) service review,” Bladworth Sask., farmer and agricultural economist Ian McCreary said in an
Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets, News

Grain Growers funded to promote grain sales

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Fifty thousand dollars in federal government money is going to the Grain Growers of Canada to promote Canadian grain, which will include sending farmers on overseas trade missions. It’s part of $208,000 David Anderson, parliamentary secretary for the Canadian Wheat Board, announced here Nov. 21 during the annual Grain Industry Symposium organized by the Canada
Cereals, Crops, News

Post-CWB monopoly system receives record grain volume Q1

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Concerns that Canada’s grain pipeline would initially struggle in the wake of ending the Canadian Wheat Board’s monopoly have proven groundless. A record 14 million tonnes of grain were delivered to the Canadian grain-handling system during the first 15 weeks of the crop year, Cargill Canada president Len Penner told the Grain Industry Symposium here
Cereals, Opinion

The reason farmers sought market power back then

The following contains excerpts from comments to the recent Fields on Wheels conference by Paul Earl, who has a PhD in history and is acting director of the University of Manitoba’s Transport Institute. Earl spent many years working for United Grain Growers and the Western Canadian Grain Growers Association lobbying the federal government to end

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