News Releases

  • Pasta plant halt demonstrates fallacy of killing Wheat Board
    May 14th, 2012

    (Regina, May 14, 2012)  Last week’s announcement by Alliance Grain Traders delaying a Regina pasta plant comes as no surprise said Bill Gehl, Chairperson of the Canadian Wheat Board Alliance. Last fall the pasta plant was announced with much fanfare and the presence of Prime Minister Harper and his Agriculture Minister who contended it was [...]
  • Wheat Board Alliance condemns continued vandalism at CWB
    May 10th, 2012

    (Regina, May 10, 2012) The news that 70% of CWB staff will be fired by this summer and the iconic CWB building in Winnipeg may be sold represents more illegal vandalism of a farmer owned institution, observed Bill Gehl, chairperson of the Canadian Wheat Board Alliance.  “It is unusual to see any elected official defy [...]
  • Former Harper Ag Minister Strahl blows smoke about railways
    April 19th, 2012

    With the single-desk Wheat Board gone, knowledgeable people, like Mr. Strahl, are attempting to distance themselves from the disaster for grain producers unfolding on the prairies.
  • Trashing Cereal Research Center puts GM wheat on the table
    April 17th, 2012

    (Regina, April 17, 2012)  The Canadian Wheat Board Alliance condemns last week’s deceitful announcement of a small amount of money to enhance the growing chambers at the Morden, Manitoba Research Lab.  “This is an attempt by Agriculture Minister Ritz to divert attention from the fact he is effectively dismantling the Cereal Research Center in Winnipeg [...]
  • Farmers support appeal of Manitoba Court ruling on Wheat Board
    April 4th, 2012

    (Regina, April 4, 2012)  “Our membership strongly supports our elected CWB Director’s in their appeal of a ruling by Justice Perlmutter of Manitoba which ignored the rights of farmers to have a fair vote on the future of our single desk Wheat Board” said Bill Gehl, chairperson of the Canadian Wheat Board Alliance, a non-partisan [...]
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Articles and Letters

  • The Fallacy of “Use it or Lose it”
    May 8th, 2012

    RE: CWB offering new crop prices, contracts now, The Manitoba Co-operator, April 5, 2012, by Allan Dawson Grain Growers’ executive director Richard Phillips tactlessly comments in this article farmers  need to use the CWB or lose it. This idea coming from Phillips is ironic  and quite frankly  foolish.   Phillips was a cheerleader for his Conservative [...]
  • Con Board
    April 14th, 2012

    Letter to the Editor: March 28, 2012 I attended the CWB meeting in Ohaton AB along with about 150 other farmers to hear about the changing landscape to grain marketing and the CWB without the single desk. I knew real farmers were there because the street was lined with ½ tons. The first presentation was [...]
  • Poetic Justice
    April 5th, 2012

    There once was a PM named Stephen, who said “With my majority, I’ll get even. They’ll be down on one knee at the CWB and only 62 percent will be grieving.” By Don Bamber Western Producer, Feb. 14, 2012
  • Speak Up
    March 25th, 2012

    So who will speak up for you when
  • Trading Grain Companies instead of grain
    March 19th, 2012

    by Herb Schulz Winnipeg The “expressions of interest” to buy Viterra “Canada’s biggest publicly-traded grain handler” by foreign-owned agri-food giants (“Sask. To Weigh Impact Of Viterra Takeover”) indicates the Harper Government’s emasculation of the Canadian Wheat Board has made grain-handling so profitable for CORPORATIONS that it has induced trade in grain COMPANIES instead of grain. [...]
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