Farm meeting calls for orderly marketing

(Raymore, Sask., March 13, 2016) Over 40 farmers from the Raymore, Saskatchewan area met March 13th and passed a resolution calling for “the establishment of orderly marketing of grain in western Canada.” Kyle Korneychuk, spokesperson for the Canadian Wheat Board Alliance, an independent and non-partisan prairie-wide farm group noted:  “This is the second farm meeting in as many months...

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1973 Wheat

by: Darrell Stokes (Hussar, AB)  In 1973 I received over $6 for a bushel of #1 wheat. That was when a brand new Massey combine sold for about $30,000. Expenses like fertilizer, fuel, chemical, insurance, overhead and so on, were much less in 1973 of course, so a likely profit on that bushel would have been around $4. NEWS FLASH: 43 years later farmers are still receiving $6 for that bushel of...

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Harper Government Trashes Another Federal Science Library

From the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada OTTAWA, August 21, 2015 – Canadians hoping the Harper government’s “war on science” is at last ended – or at least put on hold for the period of the federal election campaign – will be saddened to learn of the destruction this week of yet another federal science library, this time at the Agriculture and Agri-Food...

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We are becoming strangers in our own land

Takeover of Canadian Wheat Board – We are becoming strangers in our own land By Peter Ewart Thursday, April 16, 2015 @ 3:55 AM 250 News Once there was a Canadian Wheat Board that was truly Canadian-owned and based, and whose job was to market the grain of Canadian farmers, especially in the West. Since coming to power in 2006, the Harper government has waged an all-out war on the Wheat Board as...

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Ritz locks farmers out, hands CWB keys to Bunge and Saudi king’s fund

National Farmers Union News Release, April 15 , 2015 “Today Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz announced that G3, a joint venture owned by two foreign corporations, Bunge and the Saudi investment company SALIC, is the beneficiary of CWB privatization. With this, the Conservative government has accomplished the biggest transfer of wealth away from farmers in the history of Canada,” said Jan...

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