THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 2018
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‘Shipping season has been a disaster’ Farmers want action as prairie grain movement slows to a crawl BY KAREN BRIERE REGINA BUREAU
LLOCKED OCKED OUT | TThe he rright igh ht ttoo rrepair epair m ovement helps movement p producers roducers fight b back ack aass m manufacturers anufacturers claim ownership of farm kkey ey components components ooff fa arm eequipment, quip pment, making farm repairs difficult. d ifficult. FFor or ccomprehensive om mpreheensivve ccoverage overage of this issue, see week’s Production beginning tthis his w eek’s P roduction ssection, ectiion, b eginning on page 70.
OTTAWA — The House of Commons agriculture committee was scheduled to hold an emergency meeting March 7 to discuss the grain transportation backlog, even though Parliament is not sitting this week. Four committee members representing both the Conservative and NDP opposition forced the meeting after delivering a request to the committee clerk March 1. That came minutes after farm leaders from across Canada held a news conference on Parliament Hill to demand action. “This year’s shipping season has been a disaster,” said Todd Lewis, president of the Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan. “We can’t afford another one.” SEE GRAIN MOVEMENT, PAGE 3
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Dispute D issput over value of malting barley leaves Albert Alberta t farmer searching for answers; grain ccommission warns against ‘literal ‘ ral interpreta interpretation’ of grain act BY B BRIAN CROSS SASKATOON NEWSROOM SASKATO
Is the th Canada Grain Act adequate protecting grain farmers? quately Are provisions in the act being properly enforced? prope Those are two questions Alberta Tho barley producer Mike Greeno is barle asking after a contract dispute with askin a major maj Canadian grain company.
G r e e n o, w h o f a r m s n e a r Lethbridge, delivered a sample of barley to a well-known Canadian elevator company in the fall of 2016. The company’s name is not included in this article at Greeno’s request. Greeno’s sample was accepted for malt, so he delivered about 8,000 bushels to the company’s Lethbridge-area elevator in
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October 2016. Octo Almost three weeks later, after his Alm barley had been mixed with other barle malt barley deliveries and shipped of the area by rail, Greeno was out o told tthat the barley he delivered had ffailed to meet malting specs. The company offered to buy his grain, but the payment would be grain based on feed barley prices. base Thee grower and the grain com-
pany have since reached an out-of-court settlement, but thee experience has tainted Greeno’ss view of the grain handling system m and the laws that he thought weree in place to protect farmers from m unfair buying practices. “(The grain company) accepted d my sample for malt.”
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