Canadian Cereal Commission

[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.

[wd9]

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

What on earth are you talking about? This has nothing to do with government. Its an industry wide council to promote cereals, run and funded by the industry, if it wants it. No clones, no duplication. Has nothing to do with government.

If flax growers don't like what they are doing, take your money back. Its called voting with your wallet. The best kind of voting out there.

[gustgd]

Great Idea
Where would you start?

Keeping everything under the provinces is a good idea, legislation is already in place. Trying to get new legislation drafted, passed, proclaimed would take longer than I think anyone who desires progress wants.

Problem as I see it and FarmRanger has already identified is the left controls cereals through the CWB.
The list of left leaning groups is long even if they are all the same people.
CWB
NFU
Alberta soft white white wheat
commission
the CFA and their spin offs WRAP, Keystone, APAS.

On the right we have The Western Canadian Wheat Growers, Barley Growers, Alberta winter cereals commission, Grain Growers of Canada.


It seems like many of the other commodity groups like the pulse boards, Canola commissions, Oats commissions some The other Winter cereals groups are all sympathetic but don't want to get tied up in the war that would ensue.

There's more but I'll wait.

[parsley]

Not done with you yet, wd......lol, but then you didn't expect I would be, did you now? LOLOLOL Want to have a peaceful Christmas or a good scrap? You seem like you'd be a little more fun when you're feisty. LOLOLOLOL Pars

[wd9]

Scrap would be good, but what i was really after on this post was ideas and solutions for our dwindling cereals industry given other crops understand the concept of: if you sit around and whine, nothing happens, only more whining.

[charliep]

Perhaps Parsley can help us understand how research and development should be funded to create a perenial wheat variety for the organic industry with applications to conventional wheat.

[TOM4CWB]

Charlie,

The 'service indusrty' couldn't extract a premium out of us growers... if we didn't need weed control or to replant each year!!!

If they had to count on the CWB alone...

[parsley]

Ah, charliep, I see you are game to jump into the ring. LOL Considering you are such a diplomat/gentleman, I assume it's understood I never kicked the habit of biting; you're still game?

Presently, I rock, but the rest of AV'ers should feel free to discuss an additional organization in each province and some additional federal organizations and more $$$$$$$$$checkoffs.

Don't you just love arbitrary checkoffs? They are so, well, uh, venezuely-Canadian.

Dip, dip,
Take a tip
From the pulse set
Who nip
At your cheque
What the heck

Dip, dip
Take a tip
From the Board
Who nip
At your pools
They're abhored.

Dip, dip
Take a tip
From a plan or scheme
Who nip
From your bins
As a team

Pars

[charliep]

Perhaps you are right. Also could be projects I am working on and need to have ideas challenged/put forward.

The question to me for the new year (brain about to go into Christmas hibernation) is how the process Canada uses to actually do (including funding) market development and R&D/commercialization. Who in the supply chain sets priortities. Who in the supply chain funds. Who in the supply chain measures success.

I will note our competitors (US, EU, Australia, Argentina, eastern Europe) each have different models. Some are being very successful. The results are a competitive advantage for their farm community relative to other parts of the world in general and Canada in particular.

On the organic front, I notice the following in food navigator.

[URL="http://www.foodnavigator-usa.com/Financial-Industry/USDA-to-offer-organic-producers-conservation-funding/?c=jYz%2BwZTNAeWvzGyHWtGyCg%3D%3D&utm_source=newsl etter_daily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Newslett er%2BDaily"]USDA[/URL]

[gustgd]

This one talks of Bayer and the corn huskers teaming up to breed Wheat.

http://www.seedtoday.com/articles/Bayer_CropScience_Signs_Wheat_Breeding_Collaborati on_with_the_Univ__of_Nebraska-102560.html


This one talks of how excited they are in North Dakota to have Limagrain now entering wheat breeding for US producers.

http://mobile.dakotafarmer.com/main.aspx?ascxid=cmsNewsStory&rmid=0&rascxid=&args =&rargs=9&dt=634285195346552000&cmsSid=44773&cmsSc id=9

Now a good question would be what is keeping these big bad multi-nationals from the Canadian market?
hint it's not just the CWB.

A better question. Is that a good or bad thing, and what should farmers do?