Open-market idea has gone well

One year ago today, Western Canadian farmers were part of a seismic change in the grain industry.

An open market for wheat and barley was created with changes implemented in the Marketing Freedom for Grain Farmers Act. The elimination of the single-desk approach of the Canadian Wheat Board changed the way producers could do business, and for the most part, the transition has gone well.

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Preserving the ‘Prairie skyline’

At one time, 48 grain elevators stood on the CP rail line from Stirling to Manyberries. Only seven of them remain.

As such, a pair of southern Albertans have their sights set on preserving an aging artifact once known as an iconic part of the “Prairie skyline.”

Jason Sailer and Cody Kapcsos are part of the Southern Alberta Grain Elevator Society (SAGES) – a group whose goal is to save and restore the nearly 90-year-old Ogilvie grain elevator located in the hamlet of Wrentham, about 60 kilometres southeast of Lethbridge.

They want to move the elevator to the Galt Historic Railway Park just north of Stirling, about 30 kilometres away, within the next year and a half.

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