thalpenny,
Your comment;
"And in some individual cases, the total return may not exceed that farmer's total cost of production. But if a cost of production figure was to be the baseline, whose cost of production would you use? a farmer from Killam, Kindersely or Killarney?"
This comment is the box the CWB "monopoly" puts us in.
Since the CWB Act doesn't say the word "monopoly" once, it is the box you have put yourselves in.
Marketing choice allows higher cost producers the opportunity to search out higher return markets, in a reasonable time period for cash flow needs, and gives the freedom to sell at the higher price that is needed to make the operation profitable.
Lowering us to the least common denominator stops innovation, reduces productivity, and frustrates early innovators. These managers many times then just move along to another business where they are allowed to take risks and inovate, to the detriment of your products!
Please understand that we do not spend all this time on this subject to have it wasted and forgotten.
I need a prosperous wheat and barley industry to allow my children the opportunity to farm in the future.
Now isn't it in the CWB's best interest to facilitate the creation of this new prosperous wheat and barley marketing production system, rather than the promoters of a vision of less production and therefore profitability in our industry?
Your comment;
"And in some individual cases, the total return may not exceed that farmer's total cost of production. But if a cost of production figure was to be the baseline, whose cost of production would you use? a farmer from Killam, Kindersely or Killarney?"
This comment is the box the CWB "monopoly" puts us in.
Since the CWB Act doesn't say the word "monopoly" once, it is the box you have put yourselves in.
Marketing choice allows higher cost producers the opportunity to search out higher return markets, in a reasonable time period for cash flow needs, and gives the freedom to sell at the higher price that is needed to make the operation profitable.
Lowering us to the least common denominator stops innovation, reduces productivity, and frustrates early innovators. These managers many times then just move along to another business where they are allowed to take risks and inovate, to the detriment of your products!
Please understand that we do not spend all this time on this subject to have it wasted and forgotten.
I need a prosperous wheat and barley industry to allow my children the opportunity to farm in the future.
Now isn't it in the CWB's best interest to facilitate the creation of this new prosperous wheat and barley marketing production system, rather than the promoters of a vision of less production and therefore profitability in our industry?
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