Ian Wishart

Wishart is president of Keystone Agricultural Producers in Manitoba. It seems every time you turn around, rural Manitoba loses another piece of grain handling or transportation infrastructure. Arborg saw the loss of the Viterra elevator in April, and as of Sept. 12, Canadian National Railway will no longer deliver producer cars to nine of their […] Read more

Wishart is president of Keystone Agricultural Producers. Earlier this month, Keystone Agricultural Producers attended a research and development conference for agriculture and food traceability. Trace R&D was hosted by the University of Manitoba and focused on examining traceability technology and looking into a national traceability research strategy. Traceability systems can increase productivity and profitability related […] Read more

Wishart is president of Keystone Agricultural Producers in Manitoba. As the federal election date draws near, political party leaders are out on the campaign trail – jetting around, riding the rails, and putting kilometres on tour buses. They’ve booked high-quality, reliable modes of transportation to get them from point A to point B because they’ve […] Read more

Wishart is president of Keystone Agricultural Producers in Manitoba. Canada’s federal, provincial and territorial agriculture ministers are meeting in Quebec City this week and this is the meeting where rubber will have to hit the road if we’re going to have any hope of the new Growing Forward programs being in place for April 2009. […] Read more