Conservative Ottawa Convention...

[TOM4CWB]

Tman,

Why doesn't the CWB provide "Premium prices to growers? If the CWB actually delivered premium prices to the farm gate... there would be absolutely no need for the single desk!!! Or Part IV of the CWB Act... demanding the difference in the price inside and outside of Canada be turned over to the CWB by grain growers selling their own produce!!!"

You defence of the CWB is a valiant attempt to distract folks away from CWB deceptions and myths.

I do not buy it.

[tman]

(Where's the message icon for "shaking my head")

LOL, I was totally unaware that I was defending the CWB. This is the ugly of politics...how words get twisted and false statements are made. But hey, do what you want to do. People will see what they want to see and believe what they want to believe.

If someone states that they're farms are being destroyed by weather, Muslims, aliens, the Canadian Dairy Commission, the packers, over priced green equipment, or whatever else then I will state the exactly same thing...that the only thing that destroys farms, or any other business since farms are businesses, financially are farmers themselves.

Quit twisting what I say Tom.

[TOM4CWB]

Tman,

Your dance while adaptive... and alert... is NOT believable.

Why would the CWB need a legislative power to confiscate... if they paid premium prices?

John Deere needs no legislation... Monsanto and Microsoft the same.

If the CWB thinks farmers should sell them grain... perhhaps they should EARN the right... to buy that grain from growers John Deere does... Monsanto and Microsoft do earn the business we do with them.

NICE Diversion.. Tman... I do not buy it.

Cheers!

[tman]

You don't buy it?...good thing I wasn't trying to sell ya anything.

And dance...yes I do. Two step of course. But Tom, you're not my type.

I've found early on that girls really like it when you twirl them around with their feet off the ground. Fun times.

[TOM4CWB]

tman,

"If someone wants to have a choice to market their product, I respect that. But I do NOT have any respect for anyone who blames someone or something because they're not making money at something.

If someone can't make money growing wheat, or anything else in agriculture, then maybe those people shouldn't be farmers since they are NOT successful at managing their farms profitably.

This annoys me just as much as the hypocrisy of right wing capitalists who wants no socialist government involvement..."

So when the CWB shorts us $3.00/bu on our wheat... the marketing blunder is the fault of the grower?

Hmmmm... you are not defending the CWB record... and are blaming CWB blunders on grain growers who had no say in the sale???

[Hopperbin]

Good arguement guys, Tom thinks that below average or world prices for export wheat and barley and domestic malt may have destroyed some farmers lives or their farming operation. Tman thinks that in no way one should blame the cwb for low prices or the disconnect from real cash prices. Why should the cwb not be grouped in with weather as a financial loss to farmers? Tman the hatred for the cwb is pretty stong, too much so in my opinion.

[Hopperbin]

Also in my opinion the CWB booth at the Farm Progress Show this week is not well visitted and never has been. Why cause they don't work for us. We want dollars, they want trust.
Wouldn't that alone sink any marketting club organization or monopoly?

[tman]

(Where's the message icon for disappointed?)

"Tman thinks that in no way one should blame the cwb for low prices or the disconnect from real cash prices."

Wow, I'm really horrible at getting my point across. Now there are at least two (2) people who incorrectly interpret what I wrote . I know I never inherited any of my mother's teaching skills, but I thought I had better communication than this. Well I do at least with my clients. Perhaps it's this form of communication. Or perhaps no one actually reads what is written and they just think about what they have already made up their mind about.



I might regret continuing the conversation, but....I agree with you Hopperbin, the hatred for the CWB is pretty strong. But is that hatred strength from the majority or from a very loud and vocal minority of farmers? The only way to find out is to have a vote.

Personally, I'm indifferent on whether the CWB exists or not, since my passion is no longer in growing annual crops and I can never see myself actually making a profit from growing annual crops on my/my father's land. Well...legal annual crops anyways.