A new report suggests what farmers are getting now is much less than what they were getting proportionally before the loss of the CWB.

The Canadian Wheat Board Alliance has released the research paper written by Laura Larsen a PhD Candidate in History from the University of Saskatchewan.

The report is “An evaluation of the present situation for Western Canadian grain farmers within a historical context.”

Larsen says she focused on two areas: the implementation of orderly marketing and single desk selling for grain on the prairies and secondly an analysis of how the present grain handling, transportation and marketing system changed since the CWB was ended in 2012.

She says what farmers are getting now is much less than what they were getting proportionally before the loss of the CWB.

"The current system is not working for farmers, as they receive about 40 to 60 per cent of the world price, instead of 90 per cent they used to receive," she noted.

"Serious study and consideration must be given to the issue of a lack of system wide oversight for grain movement, and solution to the problem farmers are facing needs to take a comprehensive approach within the context of Western Canada's agricultural history."

The Canadian Wheat Board Alliance has met with government officials to call for a return to the establishment of orderly marketing of grain in western Canada.