What’s the Wheat Board and why do farmers need it back?
(February 23, 2016) First, let’s be clear. The Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) was not a monopoly, or supply management, nor was it a socialist institution imposed on the powerless west to help a bunch of illiterate immigrant farmers as some would have you believe. The CWB was more than just its office building, rail cars and grain ships. The CWB was the most successful of capitalist...
Read MoreCanadian Wheat now cheapest in the world
This just in from the Reuters news agency out of Hamburg, Germany: Canadian wheat is now the cheapest in the world. How times change! With the single-desk Canadian Wheat Board farmers sold directly to overseas markets and got premium prices because of reliability of supply, honesty, and guaranteeing the highest quality grain in the world. Thanks to Ottawa that is all gone now and Canadian sourced...
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