Good day and welcome to the Sprout, where your host is really enjoying the Spring-like weather that’s been gracing the Nation’s Capital these past few days. Absolutely glorious.
Now, here’s today’s agriculture news.
Prairie farmers say the federal government has two weeks to come up with a plan to get Western Canadian grain moving again. “This year’s shipping season has been a disaster,” Todd Lewis, president of the Agriculture Producers Association of Saskatchewan (APAS) told reporters in Ottawa during a joint press conference with the Alberta Federation of Agriculture, the Keystone Agriculture Producers, the Canadian Federation of Agriculture and Grain Growers of Canada.
