Its Going Viral!!!

[Burbert]

Yeah and with any luck, someday the cereals market will be just like the shaky oat market and the shaky flaky crooked forage markets. Yup open er up I say, lets give the multies what they want and I'm sure that, at .o1 penny per bushel, the farms using volume economics kin still get rich. Only way to go, tear the whole system down and see what happens! Yous guys are tuly visionarys or at least airys.....

[boarderbloke]

silverback, I'm beginning to wonder if the only way to obtain change might be to starve the beast(lets call it STB). Perhaps if it faced penalties, demurage, and legal action from importing countries due to their inability to fill contracts, and deficits would show up on it's books, the gov't might be forced to look at matters if they had to bale them out(particularly when the gov't is short of money themselves) and finally scrap the thing, and those that did deliver would end up with a very small pool payment.(maybe causing some of them to go broke too) One or two years most and it would be gone.
There must be other choices for you, canaryseed, lentels chick peas, flax even chemfallow for a year or two, other employment, something. Yes, it would be harder for some than others(because of crop options) but this debate has been raging before I started farming in the seventies and there has been little change beyond, oats since. I'm open to all ideas.

[jdepape]

T.N.T.:

The CWB impacts all crops. If you think you're avoiding the impact of the CWB by growing canola, you are mistaken. If wheat was a better option, we'd grow more - which means less canola, or less oats, or less - whatever. Because it is less of an option than what it should be, more of everything else is grown, putting downward pressure on prices.

and - cash flow - because of the CWB too much canola gets sold in the fall pushing prices lower.

When it comes to the CWB, you can run, but you can't hide.

[btjadenlepp]

i'm guessing this was precisely the
intent, but hopefully the video will give
all those producers watching it the
incentive to vote.

[btjadenlepp]

I am probably getting myself into
serious trouble this week with some pro-
board clients for my enthusiasm over
this video, but I just can't stop
because it's so amazing to see on
youtube the exact conversation we keep
having with these people. It's uncanny,
since I have no clue who did it or where
they got the material, but wow have I
ever been on the receiving end of that
attitude over the past 7 years since we
started FarmLink.

[checking]

Boarderbloke.

Totally agree. But we have an insurmountable problem. It's called the, "I won't grow anything but milling wheat", excuse. "It's the only crop I can grow well." "I need it for my rotations."

Personally, I'd switch it out to a variety that would yield, and not fall under the CWB umbrella for a one or two or three or... year experiment in STB. We, however, will never see such a shakeup, because my wheat attitude is #1CWRS high protein, and damn it I won't sell it for anything but that, and I won't grow anything but that. (Doesn't matter that it's $0.78.)

Views on here from choice and non choice alike will tell you that we have been doing STB for the last twenty years. Farmers have been slowly moving away from the CWB by growing non board grains.

I take from that what they are really saying is, "I won't sign on to a one or two year experiment in starvation, because it can't be starved out."

Wouldn't that be something if it had to source US grain to make enough money to pay their employees? I was under the impression that it can't compete without a monopoly.

STB, a better idea than the death by a thousand cuts process that continues.

[parsley]

STB

We STB and have for years. That being said,did you ever notice I consistently work against the Wheat Board.

Why, you ask?

Because they have no shame. No farmer interest in mind.

YOu may STB on Western wheat, but they will simply buy and market Brazilian wheat. Or Russian wheat.

And do not forget, please read it again, that one small piece of legislation can add canola or flax or lentils to the crops the Board legally markets.

Ka-ping.

One ministerial order from Wayne Easter, or Ralph Goodale.

Ka-ping

They would not be scared to wield their legislated power, either.

All you need is all the unions in Canada striking because not enough grain passes through Eastern ports.

Ka-ping.

So do not be stupid or complacent.You either snap back and kill it, or get eaten alive by this snake. Pars

[BTOfarmall]

What a bunch of dumb useless as tits on a boar comedian farmers... With the CWB gone I can market my wheat to anywhere in the USA/Out East & recieve a better price/grade. When Winter Wheat was over $6 per bushel this year out East how were the MultiNationals screwing the farmer??? I also don't have to put up with the thieves here. To scared to load a rail car or what???

[hobbyfrmr]

Congradulations to the people who put this on youtube. Also agree that it is the best dumbed down version that I, as a farmer understand, and also the general public will understand. I have emailed the link to my network of good city friends. I stopped growing wheat years ago, after hearing this video,the same feeling of frustration and resentment came over me. I knew it wasnt right, but I could not understand it. I have a decent education but could never really verbalize my troubles selling wheat, so I just stopped growing it.

[newguy]

PARS. If it is legal for a farmer to only market their grain to the CWB. Should it be illegal for the CWB to market grain not from a CWB farmer.