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@Kodiak
For heavens sake don't scare the employee's.
Their pensions are not at risk!

Although dead wood will be trimmed. All for the health of the corporation of course.
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Consultant positions will be dramatically reduced, at least until they get grain marketing under control.
Maybe once they have done that, they can start to play policy, like any other business.

BTW I hear Bob Rohl is with MCGA. Manitoba growers can ask for their checkoff back, OR get someone good to run and take MCGA back from the socialists

[bucket]

Holy cow, the people that have anything to do with cwbafacts ought to be looking for a rubber room.

Pure nonsense.

Farmers have completely changed the way they approach farming and plain and simply, the cwb is not keeping up.

If they don't change the new generation, that they ignore, will quickly put them out of their misery.

What the cwb does not understand is the young generation will have the support of the older generation that watched their sons or tenants make their own farms more prosperous.

The changes the under 50 year olds adapted have lead to a better western canada. Too bad the cwb doesn't have that leadership.

[cchurch]

Yeah the so called "changes" that have happened in farming have screwed the farmers.

How much more change do you want?

[Kodiak]

Oh, and of course Anders Bruin, who in addition to Roehle, is another very disgruntled ex CWB employee.

church, you should seek these people out and you can have yourself a very fulfilling session of highly negative discussion. Together you can blame eveyone else for your misfortune and your lot in life.

Better yet, seek professional help. I'm serious. If I had your attitude, I'd be suicidal.

[JDGreen]

cchurch please explain this so called change??

[cchurch]

Who said anything about being negative.

I love paying $9 per pound for canola seed.

I love having to haul grain 100's of miles by road instead of rail.

I love paying what ever Agrium wants to charge for fertilizer.

It's all great.

Where can I sign up for your next gimmick to decrease my bottom line?

[gregpet]

"Where can I sign up for your next gimmick to decrease my bottom line?"

Sign a CWB permit book, deliver your grain and hope for the best

[Fransisco]

Start growing durum. Then dig yourself a big hole to bury it in cause the CWB won't take it.

[bucket]

And lets not forget those things happened while the cwb, the farmers advocate, stood idly by because they were busy getting famers arrested.

How about wheat seed, that we pay the research costs on, costing 20 bucks a bushel.

How about the fact that the cwb can not exist without grain companies so the cwb allows them to tear out elevators. The cwb was pretty quiet on elevator consolidation.

[JDGreen]

cchurch your points have nothing to do with MARKETING GRAIN.. I agree with what your saying but we as farmers have this backwards. Buying at retail selling at wholesale. We need to change this. Step one is to axe the board. There is no other way.

[agstar77]

Better Western Canada? More Mega farms ,fewer farmers less retail competition, greater debt, abandoned communities. This is your idea of improvement?

[JDGreen]

Agstar the CWB WILL NOT SAVE THE FAMILY FARM.. IT IS CURRENTLY DESTROYING IT. Once again I hear what you are saying, but the wheatboards crap performance is one of the biggest contributing factors to the dismantling of the family farm. Fear based support is what the board relies on, so carry on.

[Kodiak]

You're bang on JD. Just like marketing boards have saved the family dairy farm or poultry producer. How many are there left in Saskatchewan? Not many. My guess is less than 100. Just a few multi-millionaires left with their politically based privilege, self-indulgent pricing system, and artificial barriers to entry.

[agstar77]

Neither the CWB or the open market is there to save the family farm. They are there to market grain. One is there to make money for their investors the other to provide service at cost. The future is already written in stone and unfortunately the family farm is not a important part of it.

[JDGreen]

Agstar I do not disagree with that statement. But it would then hold true that a vast majority of board supporters are fighting for survival of a lifestyle. That also has nothing to do with marketing grain, and becomes increasingly difficult to sell to tax payers supporting farm programs.