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Manitoba Pool Elevators was a
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Manitoba Wheat Pool
Grain Elevators Canada
Companies based in Manitoba Agricultural cooperatives in Canada Wheat production in Canada Agricultural marketing cooperatives Defunct companies of Manitoba Companies disestablished in 1998 Former cooperatives of Canada 1988 disestablishments in Manitoba {{Canada-company-stub Agricultural organizations based in Manitoba
Manitoba Pool Elevators was a grain trade
The grain trade refers to the local and international trade in cereals and other food grains such as wheat, barley, maize, and rice. Grain is an important trade item because it is easily stored and transported with limited spoilage, unlike other ...
company founded in 1924. It became a subsidiary of the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool
The Saskatchewan Wheat Pool was a grain handling, agri-food processing and marketing company based in Regina, Saskatchewan. The Pool created a network of marketing alliances in North America and internationally which made it the largest agricul ...
until November 1932, when the Pool declared bankruptcy. In 1998 Alberta Wheat Pool and Manitoba Pool Elevators merged to form Agricore Cooperative Limited. In 2001, United Grain Growers
The United Grain Growers, or UGG, was a Canadian grain farmers' cooperative for grain storage and distribution that operated between 1917 and 2001.
History
In 1917, the Grain Growers' Grain Company (GGGC) merged with the Alberta Farmers' Co ...
combined its business operations with Agricore Cooperative Ltd. and carried on business as Agricore United
Agricore United was a farmer-directed agribusiness in Canada. It supplied crop nutrition and crop protection products, and offered grain handling and marketing services. It was created on November 1, 2001 by the merger of Agricore and United Grai ...
, a publicly traded company, no longer a farmer-owned cooperative. In 2007, Agricore United was taken over by the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool, another publicly traded company. The merged corporation was renamed Viterra
Viterra began as a Canadian grain handling business, the nation's largest grain handler, with its historic formative roots in prairie grain-handling cooperatives, among them the iconic Saskatchewan Wheat Pool.
Viterra Inc grew into a global agr ...
.
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Baldur
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File:Grain Elevators at Barnsley, Manitoba.JPG, Barnsley
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File:Cartywright85.jpg, Cartwright
Cartwright may refer to:
* Wainwright (occupation), a tradesperson skilled in the making and repairing of carts or wagons
* Cartwright (surname), including the list of people
Places
; Australia
* Cartwright, New South Wales
; Canada
* Cartwr ...
, Manitoba Pool and Federal Elevator, 1985
File:Cartwrights125th 225.jpg, Cartwright
Cartwright may refer to:
* Wainwright (occupation), a tradesperson skilled in the making and repairing of carts or wagons
* Cartwright (surname), including the list of people
Places
; Australia
* Cartwright, New South Wales
; Canada
* Cartwr ...
, 2010
File:Crystal City grain elevator.jpg, Crystal City
File:Deloraine grain elevator.png, Deloraine
File:Grain Elevator (Hartney, MB).JPG, Hartney
Hartney is an unincorporated urban community in the Municipality of Grassland within the Canadian province of Manitoba that held town status prior to January 1, 2015. It along the Souris River. Originally established in 1882, the community is nam ...
File:Grain Elevator at Homewood, Manitoba.JPG, Homewood
File:Grain Elevator at Lena, Manitoba.JPG, Lena
Lena or LENA may refer to:
Places
* Léna Department, a department of Houet Province in Burkina Faso
* Lena, Manitoba, an unincorporated community located in Killarney-Turtle Mountain municipality in Manitoba, Canada
* Lena, Norway, a village in ...
File:Manitou grain elevator.jpg, Manitou
Manitou (), akin to the Iroquois '' orenda'', is the spiritual and fundamental life force among Algonquian groups in the Native American theology. It is omnipresent and manifests everywhere: organisms, the environment, events, etc. ''Aasha ...
File:Melitamanitoba.jpg, Melita
File:Prairie skyscraper. (8101225140).jpg, Rivers
A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases, a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of wate ...
former Cargill
Cargill, Incorporated, is a privately held American global food corporation based in Minnetonka, Minnesota, and incorporated in Wilmington, Delaware. Founded in 1865, it is the largest privately held corporation in the United States in ter ...
, taken over by MPE
File:Grain Elevators at Snowflake, Manitoba.JPG, Snowflake
A snowflake is a single ice crystal that has achieved a sufficient size, and may have amalgamated with others, which falls through the Earth's atmosphere as snow.Knight, C.; Knight, N. (1973). Snow crystals. Scientific American, vol. 228, no. ...
File:Grain Elevator at Sperling, Manitoba.jpg, Sperling(Demolished)
See also
*Wheat pool
A wheat pool is a co-operative that markets grain (mostly wheat) on behalf of its farmer-members.
In Canada in 1923 and 1924, three wheat pools were created. They were farmer-owned co-operatives, created to break the power of the large for-pr ...
* Alberta Wheat Pool
* Agricore United
Agricore United was a farmer-directed agribusiness in Canada. It supplied crop nutrition and crop protection products, and offered grain handling and marketing services. It was created on November 1, 2001 by the merger of Agricore and United Grai ...
* Saskatchewan Wheat Pool
The Saskatchewan Wheat Pool was a grain handling, agri-food processing and marketing company based in Regina, Saskatchewan. The Pool created a network of marketing alliances in North America and internationally which made it the largest agricul ...
* United Grain Growers
The United Grain Growers, or UGG, was a Canadian grain farmers' cooperative for grain storage and distribution that operated between 1917 and 2001.
History
In 1917, the Grain Growers' Grain Company (GGGC) merged with the Alberta Farmers' Co ...
* Viterra
Viterra began as a Canadian grain handling business, the nation's largest grain handler, with its historic formative roots in prairie grain-handling cooperatives, among them the iconic Saskatchewan Wheat Pool.
Viterra Inc grew into a global agr ...
* List of Canadian Heritage Wheat Varieties
'Red Fife' was the first named variety of wheat developed in Canada. Plant breeders continue to use heritage wheat varieties in order to develop new varieties.
Farmers are growing heritage wheat varieties as part of the 100 Mile Diet, 'eat local' ...
References
External links
Manitoba Wheat Pool
Grain Elevators Canada
Companies based in Manitoba Agricultural cooperatives in Canada Wheat production in Canada Agricultural marketing cooperatives Defunct companies of Manitoba Companies disestablished in 1998 Former cooperatives of Canada 1988 disestablishments in Manitoba {{Canada-company-stub Agricultural organizations based in Manitoba