Agriculture on the Prairies

Country of Origin Labeling (COOL)

• Request to Minister of Agriculture - Fight COOL 

Information Sources

• Grain Monitor's Report - for the prairie grain handling and transportation system.

• FarmWatch by Siemens Says

• Growing Alberta

• Ag-View 

• Ag On-line

Agriculture Policy

• Knowledge Impact in Society - Issues raised for discussion are those with policy implications such as rail transportation, R&D funding, carbon credit trading, the Canadian Wheat Board, removal of kvd, and biofuels.

Supply Management

• Resource Guide on Supply Management  (compiled by University of Western Ontario) - A brief guide to direct you to resources relating to a subject that is interesting both politically and philosophically and which has domestic and international components

• World Trade Organization and Supply Management - an explanation of supply management by GO5 - a coalition formed to defend supply management following the WTO meetings in Montreal in 2003

• SUPPLY MANAGEMENT OF FARM PRODUCTS:  A costly system for consumers - A commentary from the Montreal Economic Institute.

Surface Rights 

• Surface lease compensation rates - Alberta

• The Farmers' Landman - articles, commentary and information on surface rights.

  • Saskatchewan Surface Rights

  • Fiduciary Obligations of Oil Company Landman

  • Ultimate landowner costs

Rail Rate Service Review

The federal government has promised a review of Canadian rail freight service. 

• The terms of reference for the review

• QGI, and Edmonton Consulting firm, will be gathering data from shippers and railways to identify problems and issues in the logistics chain.

Carbon Credit Trading

• WEBSITES - General

  Ag Canada - Carbon Sequestration

  Carbon Credits: What does it all mean? - Prairie Centre Agriculture Newsletter, January 2007

  Agriculture's likely role in meeting Kyoto

  Carbon sequestration by agricultural soil

  Government of Canada - Details of Green House Gas Regulatory Framework - Environment Canada

   

• WEBSITES - Alberta

  Carbon Offset Solutions  

  Agriculture in the Alberta Carbon Market

  Alberta Reduced Tillage Linkages - RTL

   

• AGGREGATORS

  C-Green Aggregators.- Saskatchewan

  Emission Credits Corporation - Alberta

  AgCert Canada
  Agritrend Agrology
  Baseline Emissions Management
  Carbon Credit Corp
  CO2e.com
  ComputerAid Pro
  Delphi Group
  Direct Energy Marketing Ltd.
  ÉcoRessources Consultants
  Emissions Credit Corporation
  Flatlander Environmental Services
  Parkland Agriservices
  Pike Management Group
  Prairie Sky
  Ross Agri
  Terra Verde
  Viterra

   

• ARTICLES & COMMENTARY

  Carbon Offset Trading Becomes a Reality - Kevin Hursh

  Carbon Trading Marches On - Future Energy Investor

  Carbon Credits: Is There a Dollar in it for Farmers? - Alberta Ag & Rural Development

  Emission Credits Corporation Announces Partnership with World Energy Solutions

   

Canadian Wheat Board Discussions and information

• Saskatchewan Institute of Public Policy. In their Winter 2007 Policy Dialogue, Dr. Sylvain Charlebois and Wolfgang Langenbacher of the Faculty of Business Administration, have written a compelling argument against the Canadian Wheat Board, on 'Keeping Canadian agriculture relevant".
  

• Small Dead Animals - This weblog covers various topics, which includes Canadian Wheat Board discussions.  There is a search button to find the discussions. 
  

• Knowledge Impact in Society - Adapting to New Environments: Agriculture and Rural Economies in the 21st Century 

  • to provide those involved in agriculture and rural economies - farmers, agricultural organizations, policy makers, agri-business firms, First Nations' people and academic researchers - with the means to adapt and innovate.
    

• Choice Matters - Marketing choice for Alberta farmers

  • reports and articles on marketing options vs Canadian Wheat Board

   

Agricultural Commentaries

• Grain and Politics: 2006 Canadian Wheat Board Elections

• Restructuring Western Canada's Wheat Classes

• Selling wheat the Soviet way

• Wheat board monopoly unjustified: Coercive surcharges have cost the West nearly $3 billion in investments, new study shows.

• Large surpluses mean taxes too high: Ralph bucks rebates simply a sop to keep taxpayers from thinking too hard.

• Boom - Bust lessons seem lost on Alberta.

• Quebecers transform their province: Gains by Conservative party signal end of love for Liberal-style big government.

• It's High Time Ottawa Got Out of Ottawa

• Western Australian Grain Producers are Given a Choice

• Farm Organizations Need to Re-think their Roles: Western Wheat Growers will be missed

• Zwangswirtschaft Policies in Western Canada

• Saskatchewan's Future: Agriculture or Energy?

• Wealth Can Be Destroyed

• Economic Slavery on the Prairies

• Animal Legislation Still Haunts Canada

• Ethanol Subsidies: The Promise and the Peril

• Ontario Farmers Free to Market

• Spin Doctoring at the CWB

Agricultural Organizations

• Saskatchewan Agrivision Corp.
  To encourage and foster the development of Saskatchewan's agribusiness sector

   

• Farmers of North America

  Their mission is to Improve Farm Profitability and they achieve this mission by:         

  • 1. Reducing costs for member farmers (the input costs side)

  • 2. Improving revenue earned on outputs (the marketing side)

  • 3. Whenever necessary, advocating for regulatory change where existing  regulations suppress farmers' ability to make profit.

   

• Western Grains Research Foundation
  Research to benefit western Canadian Crop Producers.  Farmer funded, farmer directed.