Wheat Growers Announce New Chair
CALGARY, AB: The Western Canadian Wheat Growers Board of Directors are pleased to announce that at their last meeting, Saskatchewan...
Trucking Industry Key To The Supply Chain
The Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association is joining others in the agriculture sector in acknowledging the work and effort of...
Red Deer trucker ‘nervous’ on front lines of COVID-19 fight
The Western Canadian Wheat Growers has also thrown its support behind short- and long-haul drivers. It said many facilities are...
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....
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...
Canada’s Agriculture Sector Needs Temporary Foreign Workers
Calgary, AB: The Western Canadian Wheat Growers call for an adjustment in the newly invoked travel restrictions that were put...