Dismantling Canadian Wheat

by on Apr 8, 2015 in Articles and Letters

by:  David Gehl David Gehl has served as officer-in-charge and head of the Seed Increase Unit at Ag Canada’s Experimental Farm for the past 25 years. At the Indian Head, Saskatchewan farm, he’s overseen the production of more than 1,000 breeder plots and obtained more than 600 Breeder Seed Crop Certificates for varieties of more than three dozen crop kinds. The varieties propogated and...

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Trade deals no impediment to restoring CWB

by on Mar 16, 2015 in Articles and Letters

By Ken Larsen, The Starphoenix March 5, 2015 Larsen is a farmer in Benalto, Alta., and a member of the board of the Friends of the Canadian Wheat Board, which is engaged in a classaction lawsuit over changes to the structure of the CWB. Ottawa has killed the Canadian Wheat Board several times over the last 120 years, and each time western farmers have successfully demanded its return. The length...

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Not Impossible

by on Mar 12, 2015 in Articles and Letters

Some thoughts about the loss of the Canadian Wheat Board pre-2012. Bernie von Tettenborn, Western Producer, March 12, 2015 The old CWB sold only Canadian grain. It was branded as Canadian and with its advantages had good markets. The multinationals sell grain from the U.S., Argentina, Brazil, Australia, Russia, Europe and also some from Canada but it isn’t promoted as a Canadian brand. Because...

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Grain Companies take $13 million from farmers

by on Feb 18, 2015 in News Release

Grain Companies take $13 million Valentine’s gift from farmers (Pelly, Sk., February 18, 2015) “Farmers are justifiably angry over the on-going grain robbery by the private grain trade” said Kyle Korneychuk, spokesperson for the Canadian Wheat Board Alliance (CWBA), an independent prairie-wide farm group. “Using newly revealed figures we know that farmers had $13.7 million dollars taken...

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Cereals Canada resorts to personal attacks

by on Feb 10, 2015 in News Release

(Pelly, Sk., February 10, 2015) Kyle Korneychuk, spokesperson for the Canadian Wheat Board Alliance (CWBA), an independent prairie-wide farm group released the following commentary on the personal attack generated by a January CWBA news release titled “Saskatchewan Agriculture Minister Raises Concerns:” Last month the CWBA issued a news release pointing out that Cereals Canada was made up...

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