North America farm suppliers race COVID-19 spread for planting season
Farmers are worried about losing access to supplies and to commercial elevators that buy their stored grain, said Gunter Jochum,...
Canada’s Agriculture Sector Needs Temporary Foreign Workers
The Western Canadian Wheat Growers call for an adjustment in the newly invoked travel restrictions that were put in place this week....
Wheat growers ask for carbon tax increase to be cancelled
“The carbon tax is an ineffective policy in our opinion and should be scrapped all together but, with the recent...
Wheat Growers Call On Ottawa To Drop The Carbon Tax Increase
Daryl Fransoo says the Federal Government is looking at increasing the carbon tax from $20 to $30 a tonne noting...
Jobs still available on farms, industry groups say
Western Canadian Wheat Growers executive director Dave Quist said food security is of the “upmost importance” in the current COVID-19-induced...
Farmers say time running out for foreign workers in limbo as confusion reigns over coronavirus travel
Kenton Possberg, a grain farmer in Saskatchewan and director of the Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association, said wheat and oilseed...
Temporary foreign workers exempt from Canada’s travel ban
Farms’ TFW needs include over 1,400 “specifically for oilseed and grain farming,” the Western Canadian Wheat Growers said in a...
Migrant workers help grow our food. Coronavirus is leaving them in limbo.
Kenton Possberg, a grain farmer in Saskatchewan and director of the Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association, said wheat and oilseeds...
Western Canadian Wheat Growers hopeful for road infrastructure in Saskatchewan budget
Western Canadian Wheat Growers chair Jim Wickett says farmers need adequate road infrastructure to move their product to market. The...
Canadian Agricultural Industry Reacts to Blockades
Director Cherilyn Jolly Nagel speaks to CityNews Edmonton about the impact of the rail blockade.