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    CWB KILLS barley production

    Dear Charlie,

    Why would I ever grow barley? Why should any commercial farmer?

    Don't livestock producers realise WHAT they are doing?

    Proof positive the CWB fails to serve those it MUST serve to survive.

    Who cares? Obviously not those folks who vote in CWB Elections!

    John DePape is in fine form on this news article!

    "Why barley?



    In the last four years the feed barley pool has dropped from about a million tonnes to a mere 30,900 tonnes in 08-09 (both A and B pools combined). Previous years have also seen very low tonnages in the barley pool. Although the 09-10 results have not yet been reported, the CWB has already stated that there were no deliveries in pool B.



    Most of the pooled feed barley goes through an EPO and the number of producers using the EPO is reported in the Annual Report. Using the EPO participation numbers as a guide, I would say a couple of thousand producers – at best – have been delivering to the feed barley pool. More recently, it’s even less; practically all the barley in the 08-09 Pool B was delivered by only 113 producers.



    It’s a tougher number to estimate, but I’m going to stick my neck out and guesstimate that the number of producers selling malt barley to the CWB is around 10,000 each year (works out to about 240 tonnes per producer).



    The CWB says they work for 75,000 Western Canadian farmers. But when it comes to barley, I figure with less than 2,000 farmers using the feed pool and 10,000 selling malt barley, more than 87% of the producers out there are not participating in the CWB’s activities in barley. (The CWB’s cash trading in feed barley doesn’t count; it’s a drag on domestic prices, hurting all barley producers, whether they sell to the CWB or not.)



    Last June, the CWB surveyed 900 Western Canadian producers. In that survey, 48% said they “prefer” “solely the CWB” to be in barley marketing. But if 87% of producers aren’t even using the CWB for barley marketing, that leaves 13% that do. And we know that many producers that sell barley to the CWB would prefer not to.



    It seems that instead of 48%, less than 13% of Western Canadian producers prefer the CWB in barley (demonstrated by actual deliveries).



    So instead of survey results that show the CWB has 48% support in barley, I prefer to look at the estimated 13% of Western Canadian producers that market barley through the CWB as an indication of CWB support in barley. The other 87% either don’t grow barley or don’t find what the CWB has to offer as beneficial or attractive.



    How would the CWB board of directors react to less than 13% support in barley?

    How should they react?

    John DePape"

    #2
    Charlie;

    every time I read this CWB intro... I get sick.



    "Welcome to the Canadian Wheat Board

    Controlled by western Canadian farmers, the CWB is the largest wheat and barley marketer in the world."

    How the CWB can claim to be the "largest barley marketer in the world" is far beyond my comprehension!

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      #3
      That statement does not specify what they are the largest at.

      I would suggest that they are the "largest" bureaucracy that markets wheat and barley, or they spend the "largest" amount of money per tonne on flogging our grain.

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        #4
        4d trucking out of Saskatoon Martensville should like the CWB, this year they get to haul from Minnesota to Biggar. This is CWB wealth creation. Trucking company bonanza.

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          #5
          I'm proud to say I'm one of the reasons the cwb malt barley program is shrinking. Along time ago we quite growing barley on our farm and vowed we would never grow again until we could market directly with a malt company.
          What surprises or disappoints me the most on malt barley, is,that it does not matter who or how you survey prairie producers on marketing of barley, the out come is always the same. A majority farmers want the option or right to voluntary market their malt in a manner of their own choosing.
          I wonder why then when certain people run around pounding their chest and stamping their feet proclaiming that farmers must control the cwb, farmers must decide and democracy must rule the day. The farmer message was and is still very clear. Where in the hell are all these blowhard socialist hypocrites when it comes to our choice in marketing our malt barley.
          Note to all or those who care, a number of these so called democratic rights, farmers must decide, people are running for candidates in this falls supposedly democratic, where anyone can vote cwb elections.
          Only in the west the farce continues.

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