Canadian Cereal Commission

[wd9]

Taken from Francisco's election results post way below the shiny red truck...

Sometimes you gotta eek out the comments.

Now maybe this should be another thread but here are my thoughts.

Wheat and barley is around 25 million tonnes. Close enough for budgeting. Create cereal commissions in each province with them including white wheats trits etc. Create a Cereal Council of Canada, ok so maybe the name needs changing so it isn't CCC. On it have seed development like WGRF, Ag canada, breeders private ones, chem, farmers, exporters, marketing agency, processors, pasta and flour makers, etc. A strong board that can keep the CWB from running the thing.

Use the same checkoff like canola, a buck a tonne, and bring this industry up to snuff where grading, seed development, shipping, marketing produces a product that works. Stop the checkoff thru the CWB. Like canola, exporters and processors pay $0.XX per tonne.

Yearly budget of $25,000,000 dollars that is refundable provincially to farmers. Now here is where the money where your mouth comes in. Past fear has always been any commission would solely spend all the money to do away with the board. If in fact 80% of the grain is grown by the farmers that would enjoy property rights again and want to be in charge and enjoy a thriving industry like canola, put your money where your mouth is and invest in your future. Or shut...

Isn't it time we pulled the cereal industry out of the 60's? Thoughts???

[wd9]

wd9 posted Dec 18, 2010 0:32
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Or maybe i'll just start growing salvia divinorum and not worry about wheat anymore.

TOM4CWB posted Dec 18, 2010 0:38
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wd9,

I vote we subcontract out the Job to the Canola Commissions and Council.

FarmRanger posted Dec 18, 2010 1:29
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I like the idea of a wheat commission and see
real achievable benefits; canola is good model.
The stumbling block is the single desk bottleneck
in the supply chain. A voluntary CWB could fit in
well as an industry partner. I have serious
doubts about a mandatory CWB though. As long
as you have this link in the chain protective of it's
perceived turf, and quite able by law to do so, I
can see problems with a wheat commissions
effectiveness.

As long as there is no open market, I can only
see one of two things happening. Either the
CWB has control of the commission, or there is
war. Best case scenario is a short war, but a lot
of things can get wrecked in a war. I think the
first step should be getting a voluntary system,
even if it was just in Alberta at first, and then
create a wheat commission shortly thereafter.

Then again, it's late and I could be wrong, but
thats the way I see it right now. Definitely worth
more thinking about though. Another thread
perhaps?

[wd9]

Thoughts????

[LQQKY]

put me down for salvia divinorum

[TOM4CWB]

WD9,

We work with the AB Winter Wheat Commission.. I beleive they have done most of the ground work to get this up and approved in Alberta. Talk to Wayne Tuck and Rick Istead the Executive Director.

[wd9]

but as you know tom4CWB, that is the easy part.

[Burbert]

REALLY, REALLY, REALLY, good idea, lets re-invent the cwb, in each province. Then we could work agin on co-ops, grain elevators, utilities and power. We'll call them commissions and annoint hacks to run them, maybe Fanesco could be a czar. Comedia would go another step backwards, butt we'd be free and thats all that counts. Ain't it?

[FarmRanger]

<i>good idea, lets re-invent the cwb, in each
province.</i>

And therein lies the problem.  The flying monkeys
think the CWB is already single-handedly doing
everything possible to increase the wheat
industry in Canada....cooperation with industry
partners is sleeping with the enemy...power must
be used to ensure all competition must be
subdued or eliminated.

A voluntary CWB would have a vested interest in
offering value, a necessity to survive in an open
market.  And the pie could grow bigger for
everyone.

[parsley]

An Alberta Barley Commission clone in each province with my cereal sales taxed? Pars

[parsley]

And accountable like the Flax CommissionS? The provincial ones and the federal ones...all legislatated tightly with no accountability; and maybe checkoffed as soundly as the pulse organizations where it's a compulsory checkoff? rise as you can head?

That the kind of organization you are rooting around for wd? Sounds like you, doesn't it?

Always nice to have an idea and get it funded, doesn't it, and then tighten the noose. Yes, well. It's always interesting to follow the loop, and thus, the loopy. Pars

[TOM4CWB]

Parsley,

IF it is a refundable org. that folks who are unhappy with performance can take back funds... what is so horrible about that?

[parsley]

Handing over legislated marketing power to government is not an act of sanioty if you believe in the free enterprise system.

Mind you after reading Alberta's property rights bill, why would I ever assume farmers in Alberta are even remotely in favor of free enterprise?

Pars

[Happytrails]

Pars, it is not fair to paint us with the Land Stewardship Act brush. It certainly didn't come from us and if we get hold of who is responsible they will pay. NEXT ELECTION!

I am glad our beef check-off is refundable. No opinion on a grain levy. HT

[charliep]

Just curious why the world commission. If it was called a council and was made up of the whole supply chain, would this change peoples attitude.

From there, what would the duties of this organizations?

Sales as in the CWB?

Market development as in the Pulse Canada and Canola Council? US Wheat Growers Association?

Customer service as in the GRL/GIGI?

Coordinating research as in the Grain Research Development Corporation as in Australia?

[wd9]

Oops, should have been council.