Saskatchewan government peddling fairy dust – again

(August 11, 2016) With prospects of another bumper crop, the Saskatchewan government is laying the groundwork for a “blame the railways narrative” with its recent news release titled “Joint Efforts Ensure Grain Transportation System Is Prepared to Move Harvest.” The Saskatchewan Government is pretending that setting up talking shops with no regulatory power will somehow move the giant...

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Western Grain a SNAFU in more ways than one

(July 29/15) The Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan (APAS) along with Saskatchewan Wheat Development Commission and Saskatchewan Barley Development Commission hosted the “Farmers Forum on Grain Transportation, Getting on Track: Solutions for the future” in Regina on July 20, 2015.  From the perspective of grain farmers, the results could be characterized with the old military...

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Grain Companies take $13 million from farmers

Grain Companies take $13 million Valentine’s gift from farmers (Pelly, Sk., February 18, 2015) “Farmers are justifiably angry over the on-going grain robbery by the private grain trade” said Kyle Korneychuk, spokesperson for the Canadian Wheat Board Alliance (CWBA), an independent prairie-wide farm group. “Using newly revealed figures we know that farmers had $13.7 million dollars taken...

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Looking back on 2014

(January 6, 2015) 2014 has to rank as the year where everything has gone wrong for Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz and his followers. They promised an era of transparency, freedom, competition, profitability, and efficiency for western Canada’s grain farms hitherto never seen. EVOLUTION DENIED What Ritz and his cohorts regarded as stuffy bastions of red tape like the Canadian Wheat Board, the...

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Ottawa has farm groups chasing their own tails

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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