Insights and Stories of Dave Bedard

Dec. 7, 2011 at 2:47 pm CST

Updated, Dec. 7 — Sweeping legislative changes to end the Canadian Wheat Board’s single marketing desk won’t be slowing down for a Federal Court ruling Wednesday that found those changes to be "an affront to the rule of law." One of the two court declarations requested Tuesday by a farmer […]

By Dave Bedard

Nov. 27, 2011 at 12:12 pm CST

While still well back from the study stage, Canada’s four western provinces are thinking out loud about sharing or standardizing a price insurance plan for cattle and hog producers. Alberta, which in the last two years has set up its own Cattle Price Insurance (CPIP) and Hog Price Insurance (HPIP) […]

By Dave Bedard

Nov. 1, 2011 at 6:04 pm CDT

Authorities in northeastern Kansas have confirmed and identified six men killed Saturday in a massive grain elevator explosion, in which grain dust is a suspected cause. The Bartlett Grain Co. elevator at Atchison, about 85 km northeast of Topeka, was rocked by a "large-scale explosion" at about 7 p.m. Saturday, […]

By Dave Bedard

Oct. 20, 2011 at 1:39 pm CDT

Winnipeg’s commodity exchange expects to have new contracts listed for milling wheat, durum and barley for October 2012 delivery if the Canadian Wheat Board’s single marketing desk ends next summer as planned. ICE Futures Canada on Wednesday laid out further plans for the new contracts, which it first proposed in […]

By Dave Bedard

Oct. 11, 2011 at 5:55 pm CDT

Getting handy access to unpasteurized or “raw” milk in Ontario will take a legal challenge by its consumers, not by a dairyman whose cows provide it, a recent court ruling finds. Judge Peter Tetley of the Ontario Court of Justice so ruled Sept. 28 in overturning most of last year’s […]

By Dave Bedard