Questions – and answers – about the Alberta Wheat Commission plans for Western Canadian grain price listing and data

I wrote a column in this week’s edition (February 19) raising questions and concerns I’d heard from numerous analysts, brokers, newsletter writers and advisers to farmers about the Alberta Wheat Commission’s plans to have a price-reporting website that farmers can use to assess their local crop price bids.

You can read it here: http://www.producer.com/2015/02/new-crop-price-listing-service-must-prove-it-is-unique/

While covering CropConnect two days ago, I was fortunate enough to run into the two men who are putting together this service for the AWC, and had a chance to chat with Russ Crawford about what they’re hoping to do, planning to do, and why they think it will not cause the problems and concerns some now have, and that I raised in my column.

So here’s what Russ told me when we chatted at CropConnect:

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