Tracy Tjaden

The federal government’s treatment of Japanese-Canadians during the Second World War will form the legal groundwork on which Ottawa will defend its right to control the sale of prairie farmers’ grain, says a group battling the Canadian Wheat Board’s monopoly powers. The Canadian Farm Enterprise Network held a media teleconference last week hoping to throw […] Read more

The Canadian Human Rights Commission won’t be following up on a complaint by some organic farmers that the Canadian Wheat Board violates their human rights. “I see this more as a business or economic issue, not a human rights issue,” said Marlene Chambers of the commission’s Prairie office in Winnipeg. The Organic Special Products Group […] Read more

Across the southern prairies, demonstrations by some farmers against the export monopoly held by the Canadian Wheat Board have become a common sight in the past three years. The protesters are sometimes depicted, and often see themselves, as persecuted freedom fighters battling big government. Their critics describe them as greedy individualists willing to harm their […] Read more

On the bad days at the Canadian Wheat Board’s head office, Bob Roehle is sometimes wary when the postman comes calling. With disgruntled farmers waging a spirited public battle against the board, the 27-year CWB veteran never thought it would come to this. “I don’t admit this very often but in the last few years, […] Read more

Canadian Farmers for Justice, which began with an anti-Canadian Wheat Board rally in Regina in October 1994, was the first group of organized farmers that set out to break the board’s monopoly. Today, the group claims a membership of 1,500 people who have paid the donation membership, and many more supporters, said spokesperson Art Manil. […] Read more

Bob Roehle will not listen in silence as farmers complain about the Canadian Wheat Board’s performance in managing market risk. As a public voice of the board, he figures it’s his job to make sure that if farmers decide to dismantle the agency’s export monopoly, they do it with their eyes wide open. It could […] Read more

These are the results of the Border City Seed show held in conjunction with the Cattlemen’s Corral and Crop Visions in Lloydminster Jan. 20-21. Hard red spring wheat: First (AC Barrie) Milton Lepp, Hepburn, Sask.; second (AC Barrie) Holmen Seed Farm, Rosedale, Alta. Canadian prairie spring wheat and utility wheat: First (AC Taber) Holmen Seed […] Read more

The following are results from the Seager Wheeler Pedigreed Seed Show held Jan. 13-16 in Saskatoon in conjunction with the Western Canadian Crop Production Show. Cereal Hard red spring wheat: Champion (AC Domain) Wagon Wheel Seed Corp., Churchbridge, Sask.; reserve (Columbus) William H. Wolf, Craven, Sask. Durum wheat: Champion (Wascana) Glen & Donne Seymour, Stewart […] Read more

A new two-year pilot program to protect British Columbia farmers from financial disaster is good for producers, but one industry spokesperson is worried the federal government is backing away from picking up its portion of the tab. Judy Galey, who works with B.C.’s potato industry development committee, said farmers, the province and the federal government […] Read more

Brandon workers have no reason to fear a future tainted by labor unrest once the giant Maple Leaf pork plant sets up shop here, said the country’s foremost pork baron. Michael McCain told a packed Brandon auditorium that because messy labor disputes tarnish four other Maple Leaf plants in Canada, it doesn’t mean Brandon will […] Read more