75 years of the CWB...

[TOM4CWB]

http://www.cwb.ca/public/en/about/75years/

About us
75 years of working with farmers
July 5, 2010 marks the 75th anniversary of the CWB. To recognize 75 years of working with farmers, the CWB is staging two special anniversary events.

Farmer contest
Two lucky winners have been selected from among 800 entries in the CWB's 75th anniversary contest. The online contest, which closed Sept. 30, was open to all permit holders. Randy Taylor of Gull Lake, SK, and Aaron Paton of Maidstone, SK, have each won a spot on a Prairie to Port tour. The tours provide a close-up look at what happens to western Canadian wheat and barley after it leaves the Prairies.

Photo gallery
Photo gallery
The CWB is collecting photos of rural and farm life for the entire 2010-11 crop year. Add your own photo from the past 75 years or just browse through the contributions from other farmers. It’s a chance to celebrate our collective history on the Prairies.

Have a photo to share? Send it to 75years@cwb.ca or mail it to the Canadian Wheat Board, Box 816, Station Main, Winnipeg, MB R3C 2P5. We'll keep adding to the album for the entire 2010-11 crop year.

Bringing Us All Together
This video shows how the Canadian Wheat Board connects international customers with Prairie farmers. Starting on a family farm, the video moves to a grain elevator, a rail car and a ship, highlighting the care that is taken with Prairie wheat and barley.

Throughout the video, customers speak about their impressions of western Canadian wheat and barley and the service they receive from the Canadian Wheat Board.

The video has been produced to mark the Canadian Wheat Board's 75th year of serving farmers and is another way to connect customers with Prairie farmers who produce some of the highest quality grain in the world."

I can't imagine how mad the CWB is about the YouTube internet video's...!

[haveapulse]

And so Tom is there a Thank you in the history to Western Canadian farmers who were used by the government of Canada as a vessel of public policy long after the war ended, supplying cheap grain to mother England to feed post war Europe?

While it is true many farmers in 1943 supported the war measures act which pegged wheat at 1.23$, they did not realize that long after the war ended, Canada continued to supply cheap western Wheat to the world compliments of our forefathers.

www.fcpp.org/publication.php/1623

The official CWB history is vague in these details, as the reason why the then CWB dual market became a monopoly came to be was to hold the prices of wheat down allowing CANADA to supply the mother land with cheap grains during annd long after the war ended.

And so if your family was growing wheat in 1945 and had travelled to USA as my parents did they would have found US farmers receiving 4X the price for a bushel of wheat...


The Chinese families of the concentration camples have been apologized to, the First Nations who endured the Church schools have been apologized to and an attempt at monetary compensation made, perhaps it is time for this nation and for mother England and Europe to acknowledge the roll that WESTERN Canadian farmers made to feeding their war torn nations at the personal expense of their farms and families in WESTERN Canada, during and LONG AFTER the war ended.

I doubt a nation, which would have been well aware of the use of private capital for public policy will want to shed any renewed light upon their actions, I doubt a CWB supporter whose dogmatic blindness still insists the monopoly was put in place to keep the multinationals at bay (the CWB was a dual market prior to the war measures act which kept the prices low and then continued to do so well after other war measures acts on industries were removed) and so I will say Thank you.

If your family was farming in 1945 you contributed personally to the rebuilding of England and the prevention of starvaton in Europe on behalf of the Government of Canada.

And so the next time Europe puts our a policy which hurts Canadian exporters we should remind them of who fed them in the post war period and prevented mass food inflation and starvation.

Thank you very much to all the farm families who were the purse of Canadian public policy during this time.

[TOM4CWB]

Haveapulse,

My Grandfather Clayton, by 1939 found that the CWB was keeping a good chunk of the value and not distributing it to growers through the pools. As the Second World War wound up and the wheat they grew was confiscated... his court case was terminated Because of the War Measures Act.

In 1944 as a UFA delegate... he asked for an increase in price for milling wheat as we were only getting $1.45/bu and US farmers were receiving over $4/bu. The British Prime Minister Churchill simply responded... "YOU Shant Have it."

In 1951 the CWB took the Supreme Court of Canada ruling AGAINST the CWB... to the British House of Lords on confiscation of western grain; and had our Canadian Supreme Court ruling overturned: WHY? No person will profit from WW2 was the British House of Lords reason.

[haveapulse]

You are a wealth of knowledge, when is the book coming Tom?

When Mom and Dad travelled to the USA in 1945 to visit my fathers parents in Manchesterm, US wheat ranged from 4 to 5$ per bushel.

In 1951 the war was over and many profited from the rebuilding of Europe, no others paid like western farmers did for the rebuilding of the then known world.

I believe in the 75th year of the CWB the tremendous contribution of our forefathers who farmed should be recognized while the few remaining are alive to receive the accolades and appreciation.

Europe also could use a reminder that the assistance from Canada did not end at the Battlefield.

The conduit of the measures was the CWB, and this was why it became a monopoly, and remained one long after the war, NOT to protect farmers but to supply mother England.

[haveapulse]

Also the chapter on how we gained elected directors could be added as it seems to escape many as to how we finally achieved a small measure of producer invovlement (if albeit through a questionable process of representation) so very recently.

[haveapulse]

Perhaps the odd story from the jail cell could document the struggle for quasi freedom.

[hedgehog]

What an incredible story.
Ironic how the british house of lords said that no one should profit from ww2.
The lords who occupy that house enjoyed unprecedented increases in the value of their estates after the war, thanks to the massive govt subsidies paid to them to clear tenant farmers and grow more wheat.