Grain bid bickering.The Canadian Wheat Board The Canadian Wheat Board (known at times as the Canada Wheat Board or by the acronym CWB) was established by the Parliament of Canada in 1935 as a producer marketing system for wheat and barley. It is headquartered in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. (CWB CWB Canadian Wheat Board CWB Central Weather Bureau CWB Canadian Welding Bureau CWB Causeway Bay (Hong Kong) CWB Corpus Workbench CWB Certified Wildlife Biologist CWB Child Welfare Board ) and grain companies are already bickering bick·er intr.v. bick·ered, bick·er·ing, bick·ers 1. To engage in a petty, bad-tempered quarrel; squabble. See Synonyms at argue. 2. over the federal agency's new tendering process. Grain companies claim the cards are stacked against them, so they have refused to participate in the process that was intended to make the grain transportation system more commercial, competitive and accountable. CWB recently issued the first call for tenders to supply it with up to 25 per cent of its grain this year. CWB retains its monopoly on wheat and barley exports. But only a few small operations in Saskatchewan have bid on tenders. They are supplying only 17,000-tonnes of the 250,000-tonne tender call, while the major companies say they were being asked to shoulder an unacceptable share of risk. A spokesperson for CWB challenges that claim, saying any party that does not live up to its end of the bargain will be penalized pe·nal·ize tr.v. pe·nal·ized, pe·nal·iz·ing, pe·nal·iz·es 1. To subject to a penalty, especially for infringement of a law or official regulation. See Synonyms at punish. 2. , including CWB. |
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