Livestock Producers vs Commercial Grain Growers

[wmoebis]

I don't think it is only mixed farmers that have more than 1 permit book.

Do you have a min/max nuumber of animals you could own to be on your 'Do not vote' list? If I have one beef for my own use would I make your list?

If a son/daughter has 1/4 of land and works for a input supplier, trying to get ahead so he can buy a farm some day, does he make the list? They would want farmers to be profitable, Still they might want prices to be low so they can maybe, buy land against the big guys that want to eat up the little guys '1/4 at a time'.

Who knows how they might vote? Better put them on the 'Do not vote' list too.

I'm not sticking up for the way the voters list or the permit book system works. I am on your side here, These are some of the areas that need looked at for sure.
I just don't think we should be attacking our markets as a way of getting our points across.

[TOM4CWB]

wmoebis;

The whole point of this thread was to point out... the CWB elections are not at all logical or as first impression would indicate.

Hence:

We need to vote with our trucks... and at the very least the stupid POOL plan needs to be voluntary. Taking $22/t straight off my FPC flat price is criminal... on top of the basis theft the CWB is hawking for the pool accounts and Contingency Fund.

If anyone thinks the CWB is a 'transparent' marketing system... that allows arbitrage with international prices:

I have some 'ocean front property' in Alberta I can sell them!!!

The CWB is so far from being a commercial marketing system... they (at the CWB) have no clue to even know how to start!

[oneoff]

And until everyone in the primary production farming business (or at least a sizable majority) can think "big" enough to include the complexities of positions of farmers who think they are opposed; let alone the ones who basically would or should be supportive............we won't ever get off square one.
This thread is a classic; and demonstrates how easy it is to offend; and how insufficient a tolerance that ordinary humans have for others opinions; needs; wants; greed; possessions etc.etc.
Time to work on the basics; if that is ever possible.