Canadian farmers upset with stalled Bill C-234
“It really feels like they don’t care about Canadian farmers,” Daryl Fransoo, a Saskatchewan farmer and chair of the Wheat...
Ag groups excited to work with new Manitoba Agriculture Minister
The Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association also issued a statement welcoming Kostyshyn. “The Wheat Growers look forward to working with...
Wheat in the fast lane
With the end of the Canadian Wheat Board monopoly in 2012, farmers have more flexibility around when and where they...
Staple foods at risk due to federal policy
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Wheat Growers take new shot at federal fertilizer policy
“We aren’t really exaggerating,” said Wheat Growers president Gunter Jochum. “I felt they were not exaggerating because of the government’s...
Should the federal government be blamed for the rising food costs?
“It’s not entirely the government’s fault, but the government is definitely a part of it,” said Gunter Jochum, the president...
Wheat Growers Assoc warns of cost of government-made food crisis
The Wheat Growers Association (WGA) is urging Canadians to rally against what it calls “a food crisis created by our...
New mentorship program targets young grain farmers
“This is a great opportunity for young farmers to learn the effects different policies like transportation, trade, and environment have...
Liberals ‘holding agriculture industry hostage’ with climate research funding
According to Western Canadian Wheat Growers Director and Western Grains Research Foundation Board Member Kenton Possberg, moving funding into federal...
Feds have too much influence over ag research – Humboldt farmer
“The industry used to be able to dictate what those research priorities were, and the federal government was kind of...