Say Goodbye
(October 8, 2013) Now that the Canadian Wheat Board is gone, how long will it be before the lights are turned off for export grain handling from Canadian ports? It may be sooner than many think. Some years ago, when Lorne Hehn was the chief commissioner of the Canadian Wheat Board he examined alternative ways to get CWB grain to international markets. Moving grain across the prairies and over...
Read MoreWelcome to Alberta
Ottawa is just feeling more and more familiar to this Albertan. I don’t really mean Ottawa the city, but the Conservatives’ government there, largely run by Albertans. Here in Alberta we are used to major public hearings directly affecting farmers and ranchers being held right in the middle of harvest or spring seeding, just to make life a little easier for industry and a lot harder for...
Read MoreRust Never Sleeps
(April 24, 2013) Not many non-historians know that the ancient Roman Empire ran on wheat. Its major grain growing area was in North Africa, centered on present day Tunisia. Roman wheat farms were typically about sixteen hundred acres and supported about 10 coloni families and the estate owner. The families did the work and made extra money growing dates, olives, and exotic birds for Roman...
Read MoreFamily Day Special: Medicine Hat flour mill killed by Ritz
This plant closure is Prime Minister Harper’s and Minister Ritz’s family day present to the workers at Medicine Hat losing their jobs and the farm families who will see their grain cheques get smaller.
Read MoreTrashing Cereal Research Center puts GM wheat on the table
by admin on Apr 17, 2012 in News Release
(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 by firing up to a third of its...
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