Terry Pugh
Terry Pugh has worked as a reporter and editor on several rural weekly newspapers in Saskatchewan. From 1981 to 1994 he was editor of The Union Farmer, and has served as National Farmers Union executive-secretary since 2004. He is the author of Fighting the Farm Crisis and Prevailing Westerlies: A History of Sailing in Saskatchewan.
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Our Board Our Business
Why Farmers Support the Canadian Wheat Board
Our Board Our Business is based on presentations made to a symposium on the Canadian Wheat Board organized by the National Farmers union held in Regina, Saskatchewan, February 24 and 25, 2006. The central purpose of the book is to help farmers and non-farmers better understand the essential role of the CWB in the lives of western wheat producers and their communities, and the Canadian economy. The need for such an understanding has been made all the more urgent by Prime Minister Harper’s neo-liberal open market agenda which will guarantee corporate domination of Canadian grains. This book, like the symposium from which it is drawn, does not debate the advantages and disadvantages of the CWB. Rather, it sets out the context, operational mechanism, and role of the CWB, in order to make the case for its economic, social, and political value.