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The Canadian Wheat Board (French: Commission canadienne du blé) was a marketing board for wheat and barley in Western Canada.Established by the Parliament of Canada on 5 July 1935, its operation was governed by the Canadian Wheat Board Act as a mandatory producer marketing system for wheat and barley in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and a small part of British Columbia. [1]
Wheat head close up view. In 1925, Saskatchewan produced over half of the wheat in the Dominion of Canada, threshing more than 240,000,000 bushels (6,500,000 metric tons) of wheat. [8] Rapeseed, alfalfa, barley, canola, flax, rye, and oats are other popularly grown grain crops. Wheat is a staple crop from Canada.
The Pool attempted to purchase United Grain Growers Ltd., but the attempt failed. Instead, the Wheat Pool began to build more elevators and terminals. By the late 1960s the Wheat Pool had 567 elevators. Alberta Pool Elevator by the rail line in St. Albert, Alberta. In 1925 wheat prices rose to $2.17 then dropped down to $1.36.
A wheat pool is a co-operative that markets grain (mostly wheat) on behalf of its farmer-members. In Canada in 1923 and 1924, three wheat pools were created. They were farmer-owned co-operatives , created to break the power of the large for-profit corporations, that had dominated the grain trade in Western Canada since the late 19th Century ...
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[183] Wheat farmer Kevin Auch, former chair of the Alberta Wheat Commission does not want the 90% of Canadian farmers who are not under SM to put at risk to preserve SM for the 10% who are. [183] In other sectors of agriculture. There are ten times more farmers that benefit from increased trade. [3]
UFA was founded in 1909 as a government lobby group following a merger between the Alberta Farmers' Association and Alberta branches of the Canadian Society for Equity. The UFA began as a non-partisan organization whose aim was to be a lobby group promoting the interest of farmers in the province.
Scandia – 1920s Alberta Wheat Pool now a museum. South Peace Centennial Museum, United Grain Growers moved from Albright. [13] Spruce Grove – Spruce Grove Grain Elevator Museum, 1958 Alberta Wheat Pool, saved from demolition and maintained as an operating museum. St. Albert – 1906 Alberta Grain Co. and 1929 Alberta Wheat Pool Elevators ...