The election is no sooner over than Harper’s Conservatives are talking about restructuring the Canadian Wheat Board.
By chance I found a study commissioned by the Pulse Growers organization about the marketing of lentils. The study showed how farmers would do better financially if their lentils were sold through a central desk. For some reason the study has been buried.
The Australian government did a study on the marketing of wheat after the Australian Wheat Board was dismantled.
The report shows how the grain companies are doing quite well while the farmers are not.
From the Australian report, we see transnational grain companies – not Canadian farmers – will be the clear winners when the CWB is neutered. It should be safe to assume this is the way Harper’s party is paying back the grain companies for their political contributions to the election.
Lorne Jackson,Riverhurst, Sask.
