Tom4BTO howcome we's always hearin' about you drivin' around all the times wit dis ONE Load of grain, Grinnining yer Big Grin. Don't you's got anyting better to do ore is that all da grain you's grow is One Load? Gist wanna make it look like you's did someting all year huh???
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one person will never make a difference, you need hundreds or thousands to drive wheat over the border, as everyone acted together against captain boycott in ireland.
am i right in thinking this cwb legislation was enacted in ww2 before the usa joined in ?
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Hedgehog,
classes.uleth.ca/200801/.../Wheat%20and%20Western%20Canada.ppt
"Sept. 27, 1943, the CWB ceased to be an alternative, and was given exclusive jurisdiction to receive Canadian wheat
Trading of wheat on the WGE ended
A reaction to war time emergency, not a policy change
Prices increased due to reduced supply in the US and Canada
A concern about increasing prices in 1943"
1930's to Sept 1943:
The Central Selling Agency, under the Fed. Govt, pursued ¡°stabilization¡± policies
1935
The second CWB was established (voluntary)
Took 2 years to sell the inventories of the CSA
Price < market in 1936-37 ¡ú no deliveries
Price > market in 1938 ¡ú received entire crop
1939 ¨C an Act was introduced to maintain the board, set the initial price, and limit producer deliveries to 5,000 bu
WW II
Wheat board retained as optional
Initial price increased due to producer pressure
Yields high, markets lost (Europe), accumulation of grain stocks
Marketing quotas (1940), acreage reduction (1941)
" War rapidly changed the demand for grain from Canada and affected the grain markets in the early 1940s. The United States was actually Western Canada's biggest customer for wheat and feed grains in this period. Along with an increased demand for wheat in Britain and North America came escalating wheat prices on the grain markets. The Canadian government was committed to a policy of price control during the war years and the rising wheat prices created new problems for this policy and for its desire to provide food aid to its European allies. The CWB, still a voluntary agency, could not source wheat in a rising market since Prairie farmers were more inclined to deliver their wheat for the higher spot market prices offered by the private traders than for the CWB's initial payments. It became obvious that some action would have to be taken to secure wheat supply to meet wartime obligations. In September 1943 the federal government halted wheat futures trading on the Winnipeg Grain Exchange and made the Canadian Wheat Board the sole authorized receiver and monopoly marketer of Western Canadian wheat."
As you can see Hedgehog, the CWB 'single desk' was put in place to control food prices and supply cheap wheat for WWII.
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Burbert, read your history, and actully absorb what it says.
THE CWB became a monopoly to keep the prices down in WESTERN Canada.
If we were all all collectively knowledgeable and capable of debate as Tom we would not be pitting CWB supporters agains non CWB supporters and realize that the opportunity cost of the CWB is something we ALL pay!
And for those of you who support the CWB you should be the most diligent in insuring the institutions serves more than the G of C and the grainhandlers of Canada and is actually the most lean mean selling machine in the world.
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haveapulse
That's the problem with board supporters, they have a blind faith that the cwb is doing what is best for them.
But remember alot of the board supporters supported the three prairie pools and had that same blind faith in a bunch of snake oil salesmen. Its too bad they like snakeoil salesmen and the cwb people.
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And seeing that they are socialists by nature, it everyone else's fault.
The snake oil salesmen at the cwb don'y want some farmers getting ahead.
Their latest farmer to be made an example of is probably Hudye. And they will spend alot of farmer's money doing so. Instead of them sitting down and working out a solution like blending the wheat out and telling hudye not to do it again, they will waste money on legal fees. But good on hudye, it can probably be proven that grain has been comingled at the ports for years and there is no problem with the practice of growing that variety in the west. Not to mention the fact that the cwb blends feed wheat into milling quality cwrs and promotes the activity through the fusarium program.
Off topic. Sorry
But blind faith has made alot of bitter farmers over the years. They jump on the bandwagon of every new fad and equipment only to find out they have made no progress.
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