In 1943, the federal government proclaimed the Canadian Wheat Board the exclusive marketing agent for Prairie farmers’ grain. Prairie farmers and politicians from all parties strongly supported this action. Yet by 1993, the question of how best to market grain, cooperatively through the single desk or individually in a private market, increasingly divided the Prairie agrarian community. The 1973 rapeseed marketing vote, the continental barley market, and the 1996 border-running protests against the Wheat Board’s cooperative single-desk marketing show the rise in the rhetoric of individual freedom in grain marketing that divided Prairie farmers. These events demonstrate how the grain-marketing debate shifted from focusing on economic policy ...
This dissertation traces the historical transformation of the Canada-UK commodity chain for wheat-br...
Vast distances in the Canadian grain handling system means that the supply chain is highly reliant o...
Change is in store for the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB), which has the legal authority to purchase all...
In the mid-1990s, the Canadian marketing agency with a long-standing monopoly to export prairie-grow...
This dissertation examines the multifaceted and pervasive impact of globalisation on the Canadian p...
On May tenth, 2004 Monsanto announced that it would discontinue breeding and field level research of...
The Crow rate shaped the Canadian prairies’ agricultural settlement yet a highly charged debate over...
The debate continues: whether or not single desk selling of Western Canadian grain provides the best...
This article traces the evolution of agriculture from a staples to a mature staples sector in the po...
This paper examines changes in the welfare of Canadian barley and livestock producers attributable t...
The "Great Grain Robbery" was a term applied to describe the 1972 Soviet-American grain sales when t...
In 2006 in Australia there was an inquiry into allegations of kickbacks being paid to the former Ira...
While Canadian historians are increasingly examining consumption practices and patterns, their work ...
abstract: This manuscript discusses the ongoing debate surrounding the involvement of the Canadian W...
This essay analyses the rise and fall of the Canadian Wheat Board through the lens of historical ins...
This dissertation traces the historical transformation of the Canada-UK commodity chain for wheat-br...
Vast distances in the Canadian grain handling system means that the supply chain is highly reliant o...
Change is in store for the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB), which has the legal authority to purchase all...
In the mid-1990s, the Canadian marketing agency with a long-standing monopoly to export prairie-grow...
This dissertation examines the multifaceted and pervasive impact of globalisation on the Canadian p...
On May tenth, 2004 Monsanto announced that it would discontinue breeding and field level research of...
The Crow rate shaped the Canadian prairies’ agricultural settlement yet a highly charged debate over...
The debate continues: whether or not single desk selling of Western Canadian grain provides the best...
This article traces the evolution of agriculture from a staples to a mature staples sector in the po...
This paper examines changes in the welfare of Canadian barley and livestock producers attributable t...
The "Great Grain Robbery" was a term applied to describe the 1972 Soviet-American grain sales when t...
In 2006 in Australia there was an inquiry into allegations of kickbacks being paid to the former Ira...
While Canadian historians are increasingly examining consumption practices and patterns, their work ...
abstract: This manuscript discusses the ongoing debate surrounding the involvement of the Canadian W...
This essay analyses the rise and fall of the Canadian Wheat Board through the lens of historical ins...
This dissertation traces the historical transformation of the Canada-UK commodity chain for wheat-br...
Vast distances in the Canadian grain handling system means that the supply chain is highly reliant o...
Change is in store for the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB), which has the legal authority to purchase all...