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Are Canada’s farm organizations actually listening to their members?

Amid the falling commodity prices and rising input costs, one question is getting louder. Who do our farm organizations really represent?

By Gerald Pilger June 10, 2015

Reading Time: 7 minutes The last few years have been tumultuous for Canadian grain farmers, especially in the West. Not only have we seen the end of the single-desk CWB monopoly, but we also watched as Ottawa passed Bill C-18, the Agriculture Growth Act (which included the approving UPOV 91) and as major changes were made to AgriStability. Farmers […] Read more

Ian Wishart standing in front of Manitoba Legislature

Crops, Guide Business, Livestock

When farm leaders meet provincial politics

Does it always pay to put your “X” beside the farmer’s name on the ballot?

By Gord Gilmour June 9, 2015

Reading Time: 8 minutes It isn’t a unique story. In the late fall of 2010, Manitoba farmer Ian Wishart called a press conference to announce that he was heading into provincial politics, and that he had decided to seek the Progressive Conservative nomination for his Portage la Prairie constituency. Until then, Wishart had been the well-regarded president of the […] Read more

Western Stevedoring’s Lynnterm Terminal, shown here, is now the subject of a feasibility study as the possible site of a new export terminal for Prairie grain. (Colin Jewell photo courtesy Port Metro Vancouver)

Crops, Markets

CWB’s chosen suitor weighs West Coast terminal idea

By Country Guide Staff June 2, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes The new Prairie grain player tapped to take a majority stake in the former Canadian Wheat Board is now considering the possibility of its own port terminal. Bunge Canada and Saudi-owned crown corporation SALIC Canada, in their joint venture G3 Global Holdings, have agreed to a separate joint venture with West Coast port logistics firm […] Read more

woman standing in a field, grain elevator in background

Crops, Guide Business

Building a career in the grain industry, from the pavement up

Is Charlene Bradley a template for a new generation of farmers?

By Lisa Guenther May 25, 2015

Reading Time: 6 minutes Working in the grain industry had seemed an unlikely choice for Charlene Bradley. “If someone had said to me in Grade 12 that I’d be living on a farm and managing a grain elevator,” she now says, “I would’ve looked at them like they had three heads.” After all, growing up in Edmonton didn’t provide […] Read more

Crops, Markets

No emergency debate on CWB sale

By Country Guide Staff April 21, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes Members of Parliament won’t be having a debate on the sale of the former Canadian Wheat Board anytime soon. Andrew Scheer, speaker of the House of Commons, on Monday rejected the request from Pat Martin, the New Democrats’ MP for Winnipeg Centre, for an emergency debate on CWB’s planned sale of a 50.1 per cent […] Read more

The CWB Marquis, CWB’s new laker vessel, is shown here before leaving China in October last year. (CWB.ca)

Crops, Markets

Opposition seeks Commons debate on CWB sale

By Country Guide Staff April 19, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes The federal opposition New Democrats are asking for an emergency debate in the House of Commons on the pending sale of majority control in CWB, the former Canadian Wheat Board. Winnipeg Centre MP Pat Martin, the party’s critic for public works and government services, announced Friday he has written to Commons Speaker Andrew Scheer requesting […] Read more

“I don’t see farmers shying away” from taking equity in CWB, Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz said Wednesday. (Dave Bedard photo)

Crops, Markets

Guenther: Farmers keep minority stake in CWB, for now

By Lisa Guenther April 15, 2015

Reading Time: 3 minutes While G3 Global Grain Group is set to scoop a majority stake in CWB, grain farmers will be able to hold onto some equity in the former Canadian Wheat Board over the next seven years at the least. G3 is a new joint venture between Bunge Canada and Saudi Agricultural and Livestock Investment (SALIC) Canada, […] Read more

G3’s Karl Gerrand, CWB CEO Ian White, Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz and CWB chief strategy officer Dayna Spiring (from left) announce G3’s $250 million plan to take a majority stake in CWB. (Dave Bedard photo)

Crops, Markets

Bunge, Saudi Arabia to buy control of CWB

By Dave Bedard April 15, 2015

Reading Time: 4 minutes Agribusiness giant Bunge and the Saudi Arabian government’s ag investment arm are the joint “successful acquirer” of the former Canadian Wheat Board. Bunge Canada and SALIC Canada, an arm of the Saudi Agricultural and Livestock Investment Co., on Wednesday announced their new Winnipeg-based joint venture, G3 Global Grain Group, will pay $250 million to CWB […] Read more

The CWB Marquis — one of two new laker vessels the former Canadian Wheat Board ordered in 2011 — arrived at St. Lambert on April 2 for the reopening of the St. Lawrence Seaway. The federal Transportation Safety Board reported the Marquis ran aground the next day at Beauharnois, Que., about 45 km southwest of St. Lambert, but refloated later that evening and continued en route to Hamilton. (CWB.ca)

Crops, Markets

Top court’s dismissal halts farmers’ suit over CWB assets

By Country Guide Staff April 9, 2015

Reading Time: 3 minutes The bulk of a proposed class action by four Prairie farmers, over what they called the federal government’s “expropriation” of Canadian Wheat Board assets, has hit its final wall. The Supreme Court of Canada on Thursday dismissed, with costs, the farmers’ application for leave to appeal their 2013 loss in Federal Court. The four — […] Read more

Crops, Machinery, Markets, Weather

CWB’s new laker boat opens St. Lawrence Seaway

By Country Guide Staff April 2, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes The first of CWB’s new laker vessels marked the official opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway for 2015 on Thursday, passing through the South Shore Canal’s St. Lambert Lock near Montreal. The seaway navigation season’s official opening had previously been set for March 27, but officials opted in early March to put off the opening […] Read more

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Are Canada’s farm organizations actually listening to their members?

When farm leaders meet provincial politics

CWB’s chosen suitor weighs West Coast terminal idea

Building a career in the grain industry, from the pavement up

No emergency debate on CWB sale

Opposition seeks Commons debate on CWB sale

Guenther: Farmers keep minority stake in CWB, for now

Bunge, Saudi Arabia to buy control of CWB

Top court’s dismissal halts farmers’ suit over CWB assets

CWB’s new laker boat opens St. Lawrence Seaway

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