End may be near for wheat board fight
The following is excerpted from the 20 May 2011 edition of The Gazette (montrealgazette.com).
Matt Sawyer still wears a 2007 T-shirt commemorating the day farmers were able to market their own barley -- although it's no more than a collector's item.
Moves by the then-minority Conservative government to remove the grain from the Canadian Wheat Board monopoly never materialized, nor did a legislative attempt the following year. "And I have a Big Rock brewery beer sitting there with the date on it, but I don't think you'd want to drink it now," jokes Sawyer, who grows wheat, barley and canola on 4,200 acres near Acme...
This article is available in its entirety on The Gazette website at:
http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/decision-canada/near+wheat+board+fight/4817446/story.html
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