Same old from Alberta Wheat Commission

(June 28, 2018)  Few things are more predicable than the creatures of the Government of Alberta making grand plans to take grain trade regulation away from the public interest and give it to the corporate sector. This all stems from the long-standing Alberta government policy of doing everything it can to provide cheap grain for cattle feeding and other grain processors in Alberta.  In a...

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One year after CWB

NEWS RELEASE One year after CWB, private market fails farmers (Regina, August 1, 2013)  “A year after the end of the single desk Canadian Wheat Board it is clear western farmers are no longer receiving the full value for their grain.  It is also clear most of the missing value is being taken by the private grain trade,” Bill Gehl, chairperson of the Canadian Wheat Board Alliance remarked on...

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