CWB Audit Missing In Action

(Pelly, Sk., June 17, 2014)  Farmers are wondering why the Minister of Agriculture has failed to meet the legal deadline for filing the 2012-2013 Audited Statement for the Wheat Board he created.  “With the chaos in grain marketing this year and a $17 billion dollar class action law suit over the destruction of the farmer-controlled CWB, this delay raises concerns about why the Minister of...

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Grain, Trains and Autocrats

farmers pay the price of dismantling the Wheat Board By Dean Harder A banner 2013 crop year and some rail delays due to cold weather doesn’t account for all our grain transportation woes. Coordination of rail to ships is out of synch: a study by Quorum Corporation found that rail shipments to the West Coast are down 2 per cent from last year, but there are excess ships waiting in port. In the...

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Does The CWB Still Exist?

by:  Leo Howse Porcupine Plain, SK The terms Canadian Wheat Board and CWB have been synonymous for 75 years. CWB was a recognized brand name around the world signifying a consistent and reliable supplier of high quality grain which added value for farmers. Agriculture Minister Ritz took that all away. Without farmer approval he destroyed the single desk CWB and confiscated all the assets which...

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Extraordinary difference between country and port prices

Allan Dawson in Manitoba Cooperator, March 31, 2014 Farmers unable to move crops this winter have had plenty of time to notice the difference between what grain companies are paying in the country and selling for off the West Coast. “Our calculations demonstrate the grain companies have taken over $1.6 billion in excess profits from wheat alone so far this crop year,” said CWBA spokesman and...

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Minister Ritz misses the boat on transportation

(Pelly, Sk., March 31, 2014)  Agriculture Minister Ritz should have attended the University of Saskatchewan Grain Summit organized by several prominent Saskatchewan agricultural and business economists observed Kyle Korneychuk, spokesperson for the CWBA, a prairie wide farm group. “This was a golden opportunity for Ritz to see objective evidence about the chaos in western grain marketing and...

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