It provided a voice for farmers in their struggle with grain dealers and the railways, and was influential in obtaining favorable legislation.

There was a bumper crop that year, and farmers found they could not get their produce to market because the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) and the grain companies were still failing to conform to the act.

[3] In December 1901 William Richard Motherwell (1860–1943) and Peter Dayman of the Abernathy district arranged a follow-up meeting.

[7] Edward Alexander Partridge of Sintaluta spoke at the SGGA convention that year, and attacked the grain handling system.

He said the elevator companies, millers and exporters rigged grain prices so they were low during the fall harvest period, when farmers had to sell to obtain cash to pay their debts.

[11] The first issue appeared in June 1908 as the official organ of the Manitoba Grain Growers' Association (MGGA).

[14] By the end of that year the Guide was the official organ of the (MGGA) and its sister associations, the SGGA and the United Farmers of Alberta (UFA).

The two farm organizations in Saskatchewan lent the pool funds, and the provincial government provided a CAN$45,000 advance.

He did not succeed, but his campaign led to the creation in 1926 of the Saskatchewan section of the United Farmers of Canada.