The chair of the Western Wheat Growers says a strike would cause a major disruption to prairie grain exports. Jim Wickett wants the federal government to step in to ensure there's no significant stoppage to the movement of prairie grain to port, and Minister of Energy, Sonya Savage is calling for Parliament to address the [...]

Farm leaders have also called for a quick end to the dispute. APAS president Todd Lewis, SARM president Ray Orb, and Western Wheat Growers chair Jim Wickett have called for a rapid end to the labor disruption. The executive director of the Western Grain Elevator Association, Wade Sobkowich, has also called on Ottawa to bring [...]

A strike by thousands of Canadian National Railway workers will likely make a bad harvest even worse, warns the head of the Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association. On Tuesday, roughly 3,200 conductors and yard workers went on strike across the country after talks between the company and workers fell apart. Jim Wickett, a farmer near Rosetown, [...]