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

[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?.

[mbratrud]

I've read this statement a few times now and I cant believe what I'm reading! This is the same Rod Flamman that got his first mandate as a candidate against the monopoly...

The Challange the board faces is they can't dump 4 million tonnes of Durum into the Market in a short period of time. With no futures hedge there was know way for them to sell it all at the highest price. Not defending them and believe me I would rather take a crack at selling my own. Just stating a fact. Just like we can't all sell our Lentils in the same month or Quarter even.

[checking]

Jagfarms asks if Rod Flaman is entitled to an opinion. Remember the author chose to highlight his CWB position as Member of th Board of Directors

Vader's post is nothing more than an attempt to drag everyone down to his own sorry level. Apparently Flaman's preferred way is to deny or steal from those he feels he can't compete with. The sad part is that there is even one person who would condone or try to justify such a warped view of free enterprise economoics in the country and economic system (outside the CWB) that we must function in.

By signing this post as a Director of the CWB; Vader is indicating that this outrageous statements are exactly what he advocates at the board table where he is supposed to be taking into consideration even the interests of those Vader sees as rich farmers. I don't see it as a directors job to see to it that a farmer is stopped from expanding his land base.
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It's a dangerous game to feel free d to covet another's possessions. This post tries to rationalize redistributing money according to someone's "opinion". If that attitude is widespread amonst CWB supporters; then consider this comment by a good friend of mine "they could take all our money away;.... and pretty soon we'd have it all back"


I refer you to the actual words. Anyone who can't see why this post should be offensive to absolutely everyone; is a lost cause.





"In the case of a few rich farmers who can sit on all of their grain while the raging masses sell out early perhaps Saskfarmer has a legitimate argument....... perhaps he could have earned an additional quarter of a million dollars........ I could argue that for the health of the community it is better that the second farmer is able to pay down his debt and remain a constructive player in the industry and the community while poor Saskfarmer was prevented from expanding his farm by another section. The section that farmer number two may have sold after making his decision to sell his durum at 7.00.........
So yes the downside is that we kept Saskfarmer from buying another section of land where he might next year make enough extra money to buy out another suffering neighbor who had to sell a section to Saskfarmer. "


Tis truly a sick and sorry bunch of comments

[LWeber]

Jag:

Entitiled to his opinion?

no he is not without disclosure.

http://www.cwb.ca/public/en/newsroom/media/bios/#code


G. Public Comment

Directors have an obligation to make official public comment within the parameters established by the Board approved Communications Policy . All other comments are to be clearly identified as personal opinion and not official Public Comment or CWB Policy.

[checking]

Excellent point MR Weber.

Now why isn't there a valid connection between CWB "Code of Ethics" and/or "Conficts of Interest" Guidelines which surely the CWB has. Surely this Vader post was not approved by the CWB organization.

As was stated by a previous poster; this Vader rant was referred to the secretary of the Chairman of the CWB shortly after being published.