Who Has the Export Data?
From Growing the Future by Dan Aberhart , Terry Aberhart
May 27, 2026 · 1h 2m · Season 8 · Episode 20
About this episode
The episode discusses the lack of export data available to Canadian grain farmers compared to their American counterparts and the implications of this information gap.
Ryan Bonnett (ABB Solutions), Marlene Boersch (Mercantile Consulting Venture), Philip Speiss (Beeson Summers Futures Group, RBC), and John De Pape (PDQ/FARMCo) laid out the case that Canadian grain farmers are pricing canola and wheat in near-total darkness while their American counterparts receive weekly USDA export sales data and same-day alerts on large sales. Marlene Boersch's 2024 report quantified the cost at a minimum of $56.5 million per year in foregone farm income - a conservative estimate using a single data variable. The conversation moved from the technical gap to the political reality: grain companies benefit from information asymmetry and will not fix it voluntarily, which means change requires either government mandate or a grassroots farmer movement large enough to force one. Blair Goldade (Saskatchewan Crop Commissions) confirmed his team has in-person Ottawa meetings scheduled the following week, and Ryan Bonnett closed by calling for a farmer petition - the kind of organized pressure that has moved policy before.
People in this episode
Hosts: Dan Aberhart, Terry Aberhart
Guests: Ryan Bonnett, Marlene Boersch, Philip Speiss, John De Pape, Blair Goldade
Topics covered
- export data
- Canadian grain farmers
- information asymmetry
- political reality
- farm income
- government mandate
- grassroots movement
Keywords
- export data
- Canadian grain farmers
- canola pricing
- wheat pricing
- USDA export sales
- information asymmetry
- farm income
- government policy
- grassroots movement
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: ABB Solutions, Mercantile Consulting Venture, Beeson Summers Futures Group, RBC, PDQ/FARMCo, Saskatchewan Crop Commissions
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