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 MoreExtraordinary difference between country and port prices
by admin on Mar 31, 2014 in Articles and Letters
Allan Dawson in Manitoba Cooperator, March 31, 2014 Farmers unable to move crops this winter have had plenty of time to notice the difference between what grain companies are paying in the country and selling for off the West Coast. “Our calculations demonstrate the grain companies have taken over $1.6 billion in excess profits from wheat alone so far this crop year,” said CWBA spokesman and...
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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...
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