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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Grain Czars

and other magical beasts   (March 25, 2014) We all know that a month ago a grain trader opened the otherwise secret world of the grain trade and showed prairie farmers just how badly they were being ripped off on grain prices.  A modest amount of research using readily available public sources soon demonstrated the grain companies are taking the lion’s share of that money. None the less...

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