Well many of you have proved my theory, you will never find a solution because some of you are so in love with the CWB and the others are so in love with the "free market" that you can't see anything but your own position. Unless we can find a solution that will fit everyone there will be no change from the status quo. Nothing will change without some more openmindedness.
You've "nixed" my solution which would have made most of the "Free Marketers" happy and still leave something for the CWB supporters, which to me is the only workable compromise. You know I'd like to see farmers get a bigger chunk of the price of bread, beer and liquor and this could be done easily by adding a couple of pennies per loaf or bottle to these products and insure that the grain companies and the processors and the stores could keep this, and it would come directly to the farmers. If they did this I'd give up my farm plates, my purple diesel and other farm subsidies as long as the government would stop subsidizng food on my back. Still the grain used in Canada is only a small share of what is exported.
There is an old saying that if you get two farmers together you'll get three opinions and I suspect that this will continue. There is nothing socialistic about working together to achieve change. But you have to work together! Right now everyone including me is working to achieve the best for me and not necessarily the industry. It is survival of the fittest and the smartest and all the CWB or AgCanada or the Provincial Ag departments are doing is slowing that fact a bit. Ultimately though I see the day where some company starts buying up farms even large ones and starts growing crops. They will be large enough to lobby government to make rules that help them out and they won't shed a tear if they don't have farm subsidies as they will have figured out how to make money at it. Us fighting each other only hastens that day. Either I will be a farmer if we learn to have more control of our industry and work together for all our benefits or I will be a shareholder when we become irrelavent. Just the arguments that I have witnessed here and the inability to find (for lack of a better phrase) common ground makes me believe my shareholder days are coming sooner rather than later.
Wouldn't it really suck more when you wind up "sharecropping" for some company than stopping the rhetoric now and try to strategically take back control of our industry for all our benefit. We can stand together or fall alone, your choice!
You've "nixed" my solution which would have made most of the "Free Marketers" happy and still leave something for the CWB supporters, which to me is the only workable compromise. You know I'd like to see farmers get a bigger chunk of the price of bread, beer and liquor and this could be done easily by adding a couple of pennies per loaf or bottle to these products and insure that the grain companies and the processors and the stores could keep this, and it would come directly to the farmers. If they did this I'd give up my farm plates, my purple diesel and other farm subsidies as long as the government would stop subsidizng food on my back. Still the grain used in Canada is only a small share of what is exported.
There is an old saying that if you get two farmers together you'll get three opinions and I suspect that this will continue. There is nothing socialistic about working together to achieve change. But you have to work together! Right now everyone including me is working to achieve the best for me and not necessarily the industry. It is survival of the fittest and the smartest and all the CWB or AgCanada or the Provincial Ag departments are doing is slowing that fact a bit. Ultimately though I see the day where some company starts buying up farms even large ones and starts growing crops. They will be large enough to lobby government to make rules that help them out and they won't shed a tear if they don't have farm subsidies as they will have figured out how to make money at it. Us fighting each other only hastens that day. Either I will be a farmer if we learn to have more control of our industry and work together for all our benefits or I will be a shareholder when we become irrelavent. Just the arguments that I have witnessed here and the inability to find (for lack of a better phrase) common ground makes me believe my shareholder days are coming sooner rather than later.
Wouldn't it really suck more when you wind up "sharecropping" for some company than stopping the rhetoric now and try to strategically take back control of our industry for all our benefit. We can stand together or fall alone, your choice!
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