Compendium of CWB *****s That should Be Remembered

[cottonpicken]

We where at "the" breakfast.

[oneoff]

Anyone know the date that Vader quit publishing his personal comments about our farm businesses?. I ask because there was a "code of ethics" type of complaint made to the secretary of the CWB Board chairman shortly after the unbelievable post made by the CWB director.
No one from th CWB ever got back to me concerning any action taken.
So; I'll add to the list that the CWB apparently condones very low standards of conduct.

[bucket]

Isn't the internet great. It can remember things like this that most would have forgotten. Its right there in black and white from Rocking Roddy himself. Forever for all others to see and be reminded the next time a person goes to a cwb meeting.

Here is another *****. I went to the Calgary meeting and producers, even the huts, said there were too many producers payment options (ppo's). SO instead of getting rid of some programs - the cwb hires so called experts you can call to get an explanation because the lazy asses at the 800 number can't be bothered to figure things like that out and explain it to producers over the phone.

And since I am going to play by the rules.....

[bucket]

.... the next ***** from the cwb is the 800 number lazy asses themselves.

I talked to one girl there that couldn't understand why it took three years to get paid for my durum crop. Idiots.

[mbratrud]

CP - I have suspected you were someone I probably knew.. Unfortunatly I have been to many breakfasts and sat with many great people fire me an email mark@bratrudag.ca.

... More on my rant, I do believe that in the 07/08 crop year the CWB did save us farmers from themselves, There would have been lots of Durum sold for under $10/bu and all you need to prove that is look south of the border and see what US Farmers did. There would have been a few farmers that hit the top. BUT for Comments like this to be made by a director is something else. For the same reasons they did reasonably well in 07/08 they did they have screwed up the 2 following years.

[oneoff]

Sure the CWB saved some durum farmers from themselves in 2007/2008; but they did it at the expense of some other farmers. If the main purpose of the CWB is to ensure that one farmer can't do better than any others; then be consistant. The foundation of our economic system also will need some drastic changes to bring it into line with the CWB direction.
Vader's true colors are shown in that rant. Just because he is now quit (for whatever reason) doesn't mean he isn't busy behind the scenes. Quiet busy guys can be the most dangerous.
Maybe Vader did learn one lesson, but he has many more lessons to learn before I'd want him to represent me.

[SASKFARMER3]

God I forgot about this post, OK maybe not. HA HA. Buddie you did stop me from getting a better price for my Durum. But you forgot most of us sell in Late fall and early winter who would have got the way higher prices paid in US if we had a free market. The world was short Durum last year and we had it. To bad you screwed us. You got me but you got every other farmer to.
Also his comments on buying land HA HA HA. That's a good one.
And this is what gets elected in Canada.

[HFL]

So Vader bragged about the CWB selling durum at $ 22. per bushel. The average price was what about $ 12.50? So they either didn't sell much at 22 or they sold an awful lot at give away prices.

[bucket]

we dumb farmers don't own calculators and we can't figure out that if you have 2 bushels of durum and you give one away for 0 and sell the other for 22 you still average 11 a bushel. Flaman believes he is smarter than everyone else.

The real question isn't how much did they sell at 20 per bushel - its how much did the cwb give away to only average 12.50? Seems to me that their base price at the start of that crop year was 8 bucks a bushel. So quite frankly they did a shitty job of marketing. And furthur the US farmers kept a better price for the following years on their durum.

[Hopperbin]

Perhaps no one will listen to me but I believe I have something here. If the wheat board holds a pooled crop offered to them over into the next year say they hold over 20 percent or for one farmer that could equal say 200 tons. Should they not have a program to accept that 200 tons first and put it also on the previous years pro? Makes a lot of sense to me. And what do we need abc and fricken d for when we can offer within 95 percent to the a. There are just too many games here and I do enough of that with my girlfriends.

[bucket]

Why didn't the cwb just add that call to the 08-09 program? When they made the call there had been no durum harvested. The only durum that was available to plug the system was old crop. This nonsense cost me bin space, time and at the very least a sprayer payment.

[Jagfarms]

At least vader had the guts to sign his name to the post and is not hiding behind a user name that does not identify him. Its easy to ridicule someone for their own opinion when no one knows who you are. Isn't he entitled to have an opinion?.