CTV Winnipeg: ‘Another black eye’: Vancouver port strike impacting Manitoba grain farmers during harvest season

“This is their payday. And they got loans and they got people who (they) have to pay,” said Barry Prentice, a supply chain manager professor at the University of Manitoba.

Prentice said Manitoba producers will be hurt, but not as bad as farmers in Saskatchewan and Alberta because of the province’s proximity to other ports.

“Prince Rupert and Thunder Bay are still open. And in the case of Manitoba, we ship more grain through Thunder Bay than the other two provinces. So again, a little less impact, but it depends where you’re shipping.”

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Professor Prentice was also on CBC’s Up To Speed: According to Grain Growers of Canada, more than 50 percent of grain exports travel through the Port of Vancouver. But movement stopped this morning as workers at Metro Vancouver grain terminals walked off the job and onto the picket lines. Barry Prentice is a professor of Supply Chain Management at the University of Manitoba. He tells host Faith Fundal what this strike means for Manitoba farmers in the midst of the harvest season.