The private elevator companies and the railways are expecting more revenue at the expense of the farmers’ income if agriculture minister Gerry Ritz destroys our CWB. The power of price negotiation for farmers is reduced if we lose the CWB bargaining agency and thus buyers wield more power to set their price where they like. […] Read more
Stories by Ian L. Robson
Slagging the board
For some time now, private market commentators have slagged the Canadian Wheat Board. These attacks alternate between the puppet farm organizations like the wheat or barley growers and the direct trade-paid market commentators. Commentator John De Pape, as a former Cargill employee and a tireless promoter of margin trading activities, is one of these CWB […] Read more
