Grain companies profiting from marketing chaos

by on Mar 18, 2014 in News Release

(Pelly, Sk., March 18, 2014)  The Canadian Wheat Board Alliance (CWBA) has released a one page summary exposing how the private grain trade and the Harper government are misleading the public on who is responsible for the chaos at Canada’s grain ports. “We followed the money” explained Kyle Korneychuk, spokesperson for the CWBA, a prairie wide farm group.  “Our calculations demonstrate...

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Railways want to kill revenue cap

by on Mar 12, 2014 in Articles and Letters

By Bill Woods March 11, 2014 Leader-Post A railway-friendly economist will say that you must pay more to get better service.  Unfortunately for farmers, when it comes to grain transportation the opposite is true. Terry Whiteside, chair of the U.S. Rail Shippers Alliance, provided documented evidence that shippers in the U.S. who pay the highest rates, get the poorest service.  These shippers...

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Public meeting in the heart of grain country sends message to Ottawa

by on Mar 10, 2014 in News Release

Public meeting in the heart of grain country sends message to Ottawa (Raymore, Sk., March 10, 2014)  The Canadian Wheat Board Alliance hosted a large meeting of prairie grain farmers yesterday in Raymore, Saskatchewan.  By an almost unanimous vote the meeting passed a motion demanding the Federal Minister of Agriculture immediately conduct a vote on the restoration of the farmer-controlled...

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CWBA public meeting on marketing chaos

by on Mar 4, 2014 in News Release

CWB Alliance to hold public meeting updating farmers on marketing chaos (Pelly, Sk., March 3, 2014)  The Canadian Wheat Board Alliance is inviting farmers to a public meeting, Sunday, March 9th, one PM, at the Elks Hall in Raymore, Saskatchewan. There will be updates on the chaos in grain marketing, the new check-off organizations in Saskatchewan responsible for allocating farmers’ plant...

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Pointing the finger at the feds

by on Mar 3, 2014 in Articles and Letters

By Bruce Johnstone, Leader-Post February 28, 2014 REGINA — There’s plenty of blame to go around when looking for those responsible for the $5-billion backlog in the grainhandling system. The railways, for putting the interests of their shareholders ahead of their customers. The grain companies, for failing to anticipate the increased demand on grain handling system created by the largest crop...

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