Farm meeting calls for orderly marketing
by admin on Apr 8, 2016 in News Release
(Raymore, Sask., March 13, 2016) Over 40 farmers from the Raymore, Saskatchewan area met March 13th and passed a resolution calling for “the establishment of orderly marketing of grain in western Canada.” Kyle Korneychuk, spokesperson for the Canadian Wheat Board Alliance, an independent and non-partisan prairie-wide farm group noted: “This is the second farm meeting in as many months...
Read MoreA parting gift
(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...
Read MoreTrade deals no impediment
The March 5, 2015 Saskatoon Star Phoenix published an article titled “Trade deals no impediment to restoring CWB” which made the simple point that national interests always trump international trade deals. Why is restoring the single-desk CWB essential for western Canadian grain farmers? The great infrastructure of the international grain trade has not changed at all since 1900. There are...
Read MoreTales from the elevator driveway
One of the benefits of being involved with the Canadian Wheat Board Alliance and the Friends of the Canadian Wheat Board is that I get to talk with a lot of knowledgeable people and I also get to hear very interesting reports from all over the prairies. Here is one from a very reliable friend in southern Alberta. While waiting in a long line up of trucks at a southern Alberta elevator my friend...
Read MoreGrain companies profiting from marketing chaos
by admin on Mar 18, 2014 in News Release
(Pelly, Sk., March 18, 2014) The Canadian Wheat Board Alliance (CWBA) has released a one page summary exposing how the private grain trade and the Harper government are misleading the public on who is responsible for the chaos at Canada’s grain ports. “We followed the money” explained Kyle Korneychuk, spokesperson for the CWBA, a prairie wide farm group. “Our calculations demonstrate...
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