Fairy Dust stalls Senate
(May 13, 2014) There is more news on the Fairy Dust for Grain Farmers Act. Apparently a procedural matter has slowed the Senate’s rubber stamping this bit of legislative smoke and mirrors with predicable huffing and puffing from Conservative Senators desperate to be seen doing something to off-set the billions of dollars of damage they’ve already done to western grain farmers by killing the...
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(May 5, 2014) On May 1 the misnamed Fair Rail for Grain Farmers Act (Bill C-30) hit what Conservative partisans called a “speed bump” when several of its provisions were ruled Out of Order by Speaker of the House Andrew Scheer after a point of order was raised by independent Edmonton-St. Albert, Alberta, MP Brent Rathgeber last month (April 10/14). Mr. Rathgeber understood the implications...
Read MoreGrain Czars
and other magical beasts (March 25, 2014) We all know that a month ago a grain trader opened the otherwise secret world of the grain trade and showed prairie farmers just how badly they were being ripped off on grain prices. A modest amount of research using readily available public sources soon demonstrated the grain companies are taking the lion’s share of that money. None the less...
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...
Read MoreRailways want to kill revenue cap
by admin on Mar 12, 2014 in Articles and Letters
By Bill Woods March 11, 2014 Leader-Post A railway-friendly economist will say that you must pay more to get better service. Unfortunately for farmers, when it comes to grain transportation the opposite is true. Terry Whiteside, chair of the U.S. Rail Shippers Alliance, provided documented evidence that shippers in the U.S. who pay the highest rates, get the poorest service. These shippers...
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