A parting gift

by on Jan 23, 2016 in Blog

(January 23, 2016) I got the news this week that one of my favorite publications is no more. G3, the joint venture between Saudi Arabia and Bunge, which acquired the hard assets of the farmer-controlled Wheat Board, has announced they are sending out their last Market Outlook Newsletter. Written by the remainder of the Wheat Board’s marketing staff, this is the wonderful newsletter that in...

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Grain Companies take $13 million from farmers

by on Feb 18, 2015 in News Release

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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Minister Ritz misses the boat on transportation

by on Mar 31, 2014 in News Release

(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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