Interesting some of the most intuitive comments about the cwb have come from this cattle forum.
It really is quite simple, in the end when looking at the world price offered for wheat and what farmers are getting through the cwb, the value of the added expense in administration etc. simply was not apparent when considering all the hastle to get your money. Delivery periods were and are terrible. If the board was getting a premium for us they had a very poor way of showing clearly examples of this.
On the other side of the coin those that are saying there is going to be this big boom for farmers in terms of wheat and barley prices, that is not gonna happen either. The cwb supporters are right in that the multinationals will see to it that they get every nickel of the pie in terms of grain price, that is their job. The cwb as it was working was not addressing the problem of getting more money for us from the value chain. So at least now we have the choice of marketing where and when we want, and know better how much and when we can get our money.
I understand that some of the cwbers are using this as a stand against the multinationals taking too much out of the price we recieve. The idea that we are not getting enough price for what we grow is correct, and I support that part of their view, but the cwb has shown that as it is, it is not the tool that will correct this, and really only adds admin costs and hastle.
The conservatives are not doing this for farmers, they are doing this for the businesses up the value line to have easier access to our grain. That is good for local growers saving some freight and the admin cost of the former cwb but that will be it for benefit farmers. Yes some local jobs at the pasta plant etc.
The cwb issue is emberrassing that it has taken this long and this much division amongst us farmers to get to this point. To me it was a deliberate plan by both the leaders of the cwb and the conservative gov to have this hatred develop to further and back their own agendas. Us farmers are just pawns for both sides the ironic part is neither the gov or the cwb leaders are doing this for us but rather their own interests.
The cwb issue has been a smoke screen, 2 elections federal and provincial and the real problems us farmers are facing have not been discussed at all.
When will us farmers realize that we have a common interest and that it is the goal of those up the chain to have us seperated so they can pick or product cheaper?
It really is quite simple, in the end when looking at the world price offered for wheat and what farmers are getting through the cwb, the value of the added expense in administration etc. simply was not apparent when considering all the hastle to get your money. Delivery periods were and are terrible. If the board was getting a premium for us they had a very poor way of showing clearly examples of this.
On the other side of the coin those that are saying there is going to be this big boom for farmers in terms of wheat and barley prices, that is not gonna happen either. The cwb supporters are right in that the multinationals will see to it that they get every nickel of the pie in terms of grain price, that is their job. The cwb as it was working was not addressing the problem of getting more money for us from the value chain. So at least now we have the choice of marketing where and when we want, and know better how much and when we can get our money.
I understand that some of the cwbers are using this as a stand against the multinationals taking too much out of the price we recieve. The idea that we are not getting enough price for what we grow is correct, and I support that part of their view, but the cwb has shown that as it is, it is not the tool that will correct this, and really only adds admin costs and hastle.
The conservatives are not doing this for farmers, they are doing this for the businesses up the value line to have easier access to our grain. That is good for local growers saving some freight and the admin cost of the former cwb but that will be it for benefit farmers. Yes some local jobs at the pasta plant etc.
The cwb issue is emberrassing that it has taken this long and this much division amongst us farmers to get to this point. To me it was a deliberate plan by both the leaders of the cwb and the conservative gov to have this hatred develop to further and back their own agendas. Us farmers are just pawns for both sides the ironic part is neither the gov or the cwb leaders are doing this for us but rather their own interests.
The cwb issue has been a smoke screen, 2 elections federal and provincial and the real problems us farmers are facing have not been discussed at all.
When will us farmers realize that we have a common interest and that it is the goal of those up the chain to have us seperated so they can pick or product cheaper?
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