Saskatchewan Agriculture Minister Raises Concerns

by on Jan 27, 2015 in News Release

(January 27, 2015) Remarks by The Hon. Lyle Stewart, Saskatchewan Minister of Agriculture to the January 12th Annual General Meeting of the Saskatchewan Wheat Commission raise concerns about conflicts of interest in the agricultural research sector said Kyle Korneychuk, spokesperson for the Canadian Wheat Board Alliance, an independent prairie-wide farm group. “By strongly suggesting the...

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Marquis wheat and Marquis lakers

by on Nov 27, 2014 in Articles and Letters

by Bill Toews Manitoba Co-operator, November 20, 2014 Charles Saunders developed “Marquis wheat” in 1904. It appeared to be ideal for Canada’s climate and was tested at the Brandon and Indian Head public research stations. It was subsequently released to farmers in 1909. Within a decade, 20 million acres of Marquis wheat were planted from Kansas to northern Saskatchewan. Today, Marquis...

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Stick to facts

by on Nov 11, 2014 in Articles and Letters

By Bill Woods, The Starphoenix November 7, 2014 In a recent media interview, Agricultural Minister Gerry Ritz continued his pattern of prevarication in discussing the privatization and sale of the newly created CWB. He said that if the farmer-elected directors of the former Canadian Wheat Board were honest, they would have admitted their agency had more liabilities than assets. He was falsely...

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Conservative policy changes destructive

by on Oct 14, 2014 in Articles and Letters

by Stewart Wells The Manitoba Co-operator 6 | October 2, 2014 W.C. Fields’ line, “Never give a sucker an even break, or smarten up a chump,” has never been better executed than by the Conservative government and its farmer-disenfranchisement policies. Its first move upon election in 2006 was to tear up the farmer-rail car agreement. While it wouldn’t have solved all the marketing problems...

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Ottawa has farm groups chasing their own tails

by on Oct 14, 2014 in News Release

NEWS RELEASE October 14, 2014 Ottawa has farm groups chasing their own tails with transportation consultations (Pelly, Saskatchewan) Ottawa’s latest consultation on grain transportation appears to have farm groups chasing their own tails while ignoring the real culprits in the grain marketing debacle observed Kyle Korneychuk spokesperson for the non-partisan Canadian Wheat Board...

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