Manitoba Pool payments ‘doubtful’ due to low wheat prices

Manitoba Pool payments ‘doubtful’ due to low wheat prices

Our History: November 1986

This advertisement in our Nov. 13, 1986 issue invited Manitoba Pool Elevators members to attend the annual meeting of their local elevator to receive an update on its performance for the last crop year. Speaking to the annual meeting of MPE delegates the previous week, wheat board chief commissioner Esmond Jarvis said final payments were doubtful due


grain spilling out of a burlap bag

Editorial: Wheat prices – a great big mess

Critics of the Canadian Wheat Board used to routinely point to published price quotes for U.S. Dark Northern Spring (DNS) wheat from the Pacific Northwest (PNW) and assume that was a benchmark price for all wheat sold in the world. If the board got less, it must have screwed up, said the critics. In fact