Same old from Alberta Wheat Commission
(June 28, 2018) Few things are more predicable than the creatures of the Government of Alberta making grand plans to take grain trade regulation away from the public interest and give it to the corporate sector. This all stems from the long-standing Alberta government policy of doing everything it can to provide cheap grain for cattle feeding and other grain processors in Alberta. In a...
Read MoreMore FUD about western grain
(November 23, 2015) I suppose it had to happen sooner or later. From the Bizzaro world of the Frontier Center, where black is white and up is down, comes the absurd claim that Canada’s grain grading system is the laughing stock of the world. This claim, apparently designed to sow fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD) was recently published in the National/Financial Post, one of Canada’s...
Read MoreGM Wheat Leak
(October 4, 2014) This September the US Department of Agriculture announced it had found unapproved genetically modified (GM) wheat growing in Montana. This new discovery follows a similar discovery in Oregon in 2013 which disrupted US wheat export shipments for a time. These US cases raise red flags for Canadian farmers because the discovery of the glyphosate (trade named “Roundup”) tolerant...
Read MoreAnother year, another transportation study
It is 18 months after Ottawa killed the CWB, grain is not moving and prairie prices have fallen by half on wheat and barley. Farmers are no longer being paid for their high protein wheat; Our major customers are complaining about delays and a lack of quality assurance so they’re going elsewhere. Even the western Australians are eating our lunch on feed barley. Could the fact they are on...
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