Farmers support public plant breeding
(December 18, 2013) Anyone who supports farm-saved seed and public plant breeding should be pleased by the results of the elections for the Saskatchewan Wheat and Barley Commissions. These commissions will allocate millions of dollars of farmers’ money into wheat and barley research now that the Federal Government has trashed most of its facilities and fired the scientists who did the...
Read MoreWhere was Senators’ due process when they killed the Wheat Board?
Most Canadians have come to expect a certain level of hypocrisy from their politicians, but the current Senate scandal involving Duffy, Wallin, and Brazeau, three of the many Harper-appointed Senators have exposed this hypocrisy in spades. Led by Conservative Senator Don Plett some Conservative Senators have suddenly become aware of the importance of due process. Conservative Senator Hugh Segal...
Read MoreSay 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 MoreTo See Ourselves
The great poet Robbie Burns once observed that he wished some power would give us the gift to see ourselves as others see us. A couple of weeks ago political blogger and long time Alberta reporter David Climenhaga did just that when he wrote a column (Grass crime no! Grain crime yes! The inconsistencies of Prime Minister Harper!) on the hypocrisy of Stephen Harper being tough on crime,...
Read MoreConservative Gratitude
by admin on Nov 28, 2012 in Articles and Letters
Thanks to Prime Minister Stephen Harper and minister of agriculture Garry Ritz, we now have the Conservative Wheat Board, all political appointees, since all our elected farmer directors were fired. The farmers for Just Us seem to think they have marketing freedom. What a farce. We are now all slaves to the vagaries of a fluctuating market. Other things for which we can be thankful to our...
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