Grain Growers of Canada... CWB Position

[TOM4CWB]

For Immediate Release:
Grain Growers of Canada expect CWB to work with Government
(Tuesday, June 29, 2011, Winnipeg) – After meeting with Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz today in Winnipeg, the Grain Growers of Canada (GGC), representing over 80,000 Canadian grain farmers strongly encourages the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) to work with the Federal Government and farm groups on the new business model needed to transition the Wheat Board into the free market.
“We feel a plebiscite now is not a good use of time and resources,” says Stephen Vandervalk, President of the Grain Growers of Canada. “We met with the Canadian Wheat Board on Monday and with Minister Ritz today and told both of them we have to get working together. The Board needs to roll up its sleeves this summer and get to work and the Government needs to understand what tools are needed for the Board to be successful.”
”We just had an election and the Federal Government was elected to govern and is going to govern and they are going to implement their long standing commitment to marketing choice” says Richard Phillips, Executive Director of the Grain Growers. “These changes are going to happen so the Wheat Board should not squander time, resources and good will. Farmers are worth the effort to make this transition. And quite frankly their own employees are worth it too.”
“The CWB has a respected world-wide brand, they have contacts around the world, they have experienced people in both rail and ocean freight, and they have front line staff who work with farmers every day,” says Vandervalk. “They can be successful in the free market environment and provide a smooth transition for farmers and industry by August 1, 2012, if they only give their own organization a chance,” Vandervalk concludes.
Representing over 80,000 successful wheat, barley, canola, oat, corn, pea and lentil farmers across Canada, the Grain Growers of Canada is well known as the national voice of Canadian grain farmers.
For more information on the Grain Growers, please visit www.ggc-pgc.ca.
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For more information:
Richard Phillips, Executive Director 613-875-1795
Stephen Vandervalk, President 403-795-1171

[agstar77]

You mean the grain companies of Canada?

[TOM4CWB]

Agstar,

I guess that this means hat means you are a company too.

Who do you think the CWB is?

They are for sure no c0-0perative... the exact opposite... Confiscating Wheat and Barley (CWB)

[Braveheart]

The fat lady is picking out music. The monopoly is going and that's it. So the CWB can either put together some helpful ideas or someone will do it for them.

Neil Oberg will be remembered (well maybe) as the short sighted chairman that torpedoed th CWB. YEAAAAH!!!!!

[TOM4CWB]

Braveheart,

It is actually 'Allen' that has the CWB gun all warmed up and ready to shoot!

I can't help but be amazed at the CWB on Malt barley.

On the radio today... the CWB marketing specialist was explaining to us how China had discovered lower quality Australian Malt... and the point was to inform us that someone else was subsituting our sales... for lower value AU.

WOW. ROCKET SCIENCE.

SUBSITUTION. It happens every single day... if the CWB 'ask' is too much.

WHAT a 'single desk'. PREMIUM?

I call the CWB Bluff... they can't get one cent more out of malt than anyone else. They have NO market power to extract anything... but money out of grain growers pockets... that they confiscate grain from.

IT is a buying monopoly... NOT a selling monopoly!

Chairman OBERG... you are doing the same thing now to the CWB... only worse... as you did to the Alberta Wheat Pool.

WHAT A HERO.

[notaredneck]

All that is needed folks is a VOTE.Get with the program.

[Braveheart]

Thanks Tom, of course it's Allen Oberg. I've been saying it wrong all day. Must be Freudian. Darned CWB's driving me crazy. Yes that's their fault too.

So, this is the same Oberg that helped tank AWP? He is heading to top of the list of the Loser Hall Of Fame.

And you're right Tom. The world operates as an open market. The CWB is a buying monopoly not a selling monopoly.

Maybe notaredneck's ballot question should be, "Do you favor a single desk buyer for wheat, yes, no"?

[Braveheart]

What we need to do is lobby Harper and Ritz really hard right now. Get them to recall Parliament and introduce legislation to end this thing immediately. I'm sick of all the whiners (Friends, CWB, MB Gov't etc.) thinking they have the right to steal my money for their puposes, and confiscate our grain to help keep their socialists dream alive. If Oberg and friends won't co-operate then so long. They've ran the place like they wanted someone to put it out of its' misery for years.

Let's flood the gov't with letters. Please oh please end it now.

[TOM4CWB]

Notaredneck,

"All that is needed folks is a VOTE.Get with the program."

Ok... lets have a vote that aussies can't sell Malt barley... US growers can't sell milling durum and wheat... and that the former soviet union region must stop growing grain.

Then... perhaps the CWB buying monopoly would be a LITTLE more than totally pathetic and useless...


Vote... on the vote held on May 2 2011...

The CWB prevented our family from voting in the 2010 Directors Election... why should I trust ANYTHING these people would call democratic???

[sumdumguy]

I think Grain Grain Growers of Canada is bigger
than NFU and respresents more farmers, less
unions and for sure less socialists.

[begood]

I think the federal government is giving way to much time for the CWB to get ready for it's place, if any, in grain marketing.
Allowing the CWB to control the agenda will ensure the CWB does maximum damage to every farmer in the next year. Their agenda is to never allow anything but their approved changes; and that will certainly not be done within the federal governments time frame.
Put the CWB down once and for all. Or it never will get done.

[silverback]

Tell me again why No Cost Export Licences cannot be given out RIGHT NOW ! ??

[Raven]

Silverback, you are absolutely right. Export licences to producers ends the "buying" monopoly in its tracks. The Government could do that with a simple order to the CWB which they are oblicated to comply with.

With the monopoly ended, the CWB would have no choice but to work with the Government, rather than try to undermine in every way possible.

And licences only to farmers would ensure the grain companies and the rest of the trade (who also benefit from captive supplies of grain) would sincerely work with the Government for a workable change to voluntary in the legislation.

This is 1947 legislation!

[bucket]

Just get rid of the whole ****ing mess NOW.

The special deals for fusarium growers, the special deals for the red river valley, the churchill special deal (except when they haul it from churchill to vancouver then everyone pays). The special deals for the durum gdc where you could defer delivery as well as price no charge. The special deals for organics. The special voting deals for dead people.

But for the average grower - tough shit.

Yes, I will take the open market - I will be better off.

[begood]

Just like to add that currently registered seed growers can sell any amount of board grains into the US as seed. No cost.
Right now there is the opportunity to sell supposed durum seed to a US farmer who might have no intention of doing other than immediately selling for a profit. And both the CWB and the US farmer should just love the CWB for enabling this abuse that only exists because of our present Canadian monopoly.
Get some options now. Export permits etc. right now if the federal government is at all serious. I'll be convinced when the Cons actually show they can and will do something. So far there is no indication they have the will or ability to do anything.