More than 50 farmers from the Swan River and Pelly areas of Manitoba and Saskatchewan met February 10, 2016 and unanimously passed a resolution calling for the re-establishment of the Canadian Wheat Board and single-desk selling of grain in western Canada.
Four western Canadian farmers have served their amended statement of claim in the Federal Court of Canada alleging Ottawa shortchanged farmers by approximately $720 million dollars of farmers’ money from the operations of the Canadian Wheat Board in 2011/12 when the government was dismantling the marketing organization.
A weather and crop specialist with CWB reports dry conditions on the western prairies combined with a widespread frost that hit Manitoba and Saskatchewan will result in dramatically reduced yield potentials.
CWB announced the pouring of the concrete slip for its fourth state-of-the-art grain elevator located near St. Adolphe, Manitoba is now underway.
For the first time in decades Western Canada is going to have a new major competitor in the grain industry with the announcement of the investment by G3 Global Grain Group in CWB.
The Canadian Wheat Board recently announced the construction of its fourth state-of-the-art grain elevator located near St. Adolphe, Manitoba.
A weather and crop specialist with CWB reports grain yields this year will be slightly above average but crop quality will suffer.
CWB announced the pouring of the concrete slip for its state-of-the-art grain elevator located west of Portage La Prairie in Bloom, Manitoba is now underway.
A weather and crop specialist with CWB estimates four million acres of crop production have been lost this year on the prairies as a result of land not being seeded or from crops being abandoned due to excess moisture and flooding.
A weather and crop specialist with CWB reports this year’s late spring has resulted in close to two million acres left unseeded and raised concerns over the potential for crops that were planted being damaged this fall by frost.
