Reading Time: 4 minutes Manitoba’s main farm group is eyeing a plan that would see farmers directly fund insurance to cover losses when grain buyers can’t pay their bills. That’s a different route than envisioned by Ottawa under sweeping changes to the Canada Grains Act introduced to Parliament last month. The plan is to replace the Canadian Grain Commission’s […] Read more
Should farmers pay for protection against grain company defaults?
The Canadian Grain Commission has proposed setting up a security fund paid for by grain companies, but Ontario has gone with a farmer-funded model
