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Restless farmers and the Prairie grain business
Cereals, Opinion

Restless farmers and the Prairie grain business

What goes around…

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While the percentage of grain buyers in heaven may only be slightly higher than that for railroaders, the stories that grandpa (or now great-grandpa) told about being shafted by the grain companies early in the last century may have been a trifle exaggerated. Then, as now, there was a bit of a “shoot the messenger”
Canadian Wheat Board building in Winnipeg
Cereals, National news

FNA wants more time for CWB bid

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

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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
steel railcar wheel
Cereals, Oilseeds, Opinion

Editorial: Farmers shouldn’t get mad, they should get organized

Present regulatory system doesn't allow Canadian farmers' voice to be heard

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It will be bitterly disappointing to many farmers that the Canadian Transportation Agency chose to reject a level-of-service complaint filed by the Canola Growers of Canada over last winter’s rail service. The Canola Growers’ level-of-service complaint was the one opportunity farmers had to extract some compensation for their losses in last winter’s debacle, even if
pile of grain in an open field
Cereals, Crops, News, Oilseeds

Demand for top-quality wheat during grain glut

There's good news for quality wheat growers, but not so good news for most other commodities

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Prairie farmers who harvested high-quality wheat this year will be among the lucky few able to cash in on a world market sagging under record production, lower quality and a drop in demand from key importers. “The world has not produced a particularly good crop in terms of quality, so there are some quality premiums
Opposition MPs decry decision to not make CWB’s 2012-13 annual report public
Cereals, National news

Opposition MPs decry decision to not make CWB’s 2012-13 annual report public

Wheat board critics, including the government, accused it of secrecy, but now 
Gerry Ritz has deemed CWB’s activities are too commercially sensitive to release

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Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz’s decision to keep CWB’s 2012-13 annual report from the public is being criticized by opposition members of Parliament. Farmers and taxpayers have a right to see CWB’s financial statements Liberal MP Ralph Goodale and NDP Agriculture Critic Malcolm Allen said in separate interviews last week. “It should be remembered whatever revenue
Record end-of-year grain movement reduces carry-over
Cereals, National news

Record end-of-year grain movement reduces carry-over

Acrimony continues between grain companies and the railways

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The estimated 15.7 million tonnes of western grain carry-over is almost four million tonnes less than first forecast, thanks to record grain movement between April 1 and July 31, says Mark Hemmes, president of Quorum Corporation, the firm hired by the federal government to monitor the western grain transportation system. “When it’s all said and
CWB’s 2012-13 annual report was tabled in Parliament four months late, but most of the report has been deemed too commercially sensitive to release, much to the dismay of the Friends of the Canadian Wheat Board.  photo: cwb
Cereals, News

CWB annual report: notes but no numbers

The Friends of the Canadian Wheat Board suspects the report is too politically sensitive to be made public

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How well did CWB, the government grain company formed after Ottawa ended the Canadian Wheat Board’s sales monopoly July 31, 2012, do during its first year in an open market? We may never know. Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz tabled CWB’s 2012-13 annual report, including its audited financial statement, in Parliament in July. But only the
Farmers of North America has a plan for a farmer-owned CWB
Cereals, Crops, News

Farmers of North America has a plan for a farmer-owned CWB

What isn’t clear is if CWB supports the idea or if the organizations have even discussed it

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Farmers of North America (FNA) wants to help farmers get majority ownership of CWB, but neither organization is saying whether they’ve discussed the plan or if CWB supports it. Saskatoon-headquartered FNA, which describes itself as “a business alliance of farmers dedicated to maximizing farm profitability,” outlines on its website a plan to create a farmer-owned
A sample of Aegilops tauschii, a wild relative of wheat, collected in Afghanistan. It has natural resistance to the Hessian fly, a major pest of cereals worldwide.  Photo: USDA/ARS
Cereals, Did you know?

Conflicts threaten plant genetic resources

Highest concentration of important wild crop relatives 
is in Syria and Lebanon

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Future crop-breeding improvements could be hampered by conflict in the world’s war zones, say researchers from the University of Birmingham in the U.K. Many of today’s most important crops evolved from wild ancestors in the “Fertile Crescent” of the Middle East, arcing around the Arabian desert from Jordan, Palestine, Israel, Syria, Lebanon, Turkey and ending
Earl Geddes.
Cereals, News

VIDEO: Retiring Cigi chief looks back

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Canadian International Grains Institute (Cigi) CEO Earl Geddes is retiring after more than 35 years in agriculture during which time he was a farmer, farm leader, consultant, senior wheat board official and head of Cigi. Manitoba Co-operator reporter Allan Dawson asked Geddes about some of the highlights of his career.

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