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Chuckchuck.

I'm a conventional farmer, unlike organic farmers like yourself. That was said because you won't, or are ashamed to admit your farming status.

This is the view of organic individuals. "I support the CWB because I have the advantage of selling my wheat into the US for a tiny buyback to receive an export licence. I'm afraid that if I don't support the CWB that conventional farmers will have access to the US market. US farmers will object to their politicians on seeing Canadian trucks loaded with wheat sitting on their elevator driveways, and will slam the border shut to all wheat including my own. I can't lose my advantage, so I strongly support the CWB."

Tell me it isn't so, chuckchuck. I checked my mirror, and didn't see a shelfish SOB until your face appeared in the background.

[chuckChuck]

Checking. If you knew anything about organic farming you know very well that organic farms also use the CWB just like non-organic farms when they rent or buy more land that is not organic already, grow lower protein product that no one wants to buy and when the organic market is slow. They also have the option to use the OFSC just like you have the option to use the PDS if your a brilliant marketer, which I am sure you are.

Pedigreed Seed growers also use the CWB when they sell commercial and not pedigreed. Are they (shelfish) as well?

By the way, I wouldn't spend too much time in front of the mirror.

[chuckChuck]

History shows that the US will use protectionist measures whenever they get the chance. To ignore or downplay the risks is naive. On the wheat front there were several trade challenges against the CWB and Canadian exports but they were all settled without evidence that the CWB was dumping. End of story!

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Oh no!, I saw you as I glanced in my automotive mirror. You were the one in the grain truck behind me at the border being searched for a dirty terrorist wheat bomb by a nasty looking US custom's agent.

Yes, I know how you blend expanded acres into the loose standards. Four ounces of 2-4D and you would have it made!!!!

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The answer as to why organic farmers and registered seed growers use the CWB at all is clear to me. It is also coming out in the replies to this forum.
The CWB patronage of these producers is kept to the very lowest levels to deliver screenings, organic or what was hoped to be seed production that no one in those industries wants because of the poorest specks because of weather damage, quality, contamination etc.
No successful organic farmer or seed producer has ever derived a substantial portion of their farm income from CWB deliveries. And for that reason their strong support for the CWB is most likely able to be attributed to denying other farmers from accessing the same world markets that they have come to see as their personal entitlements.
What is worst is that their self serving position would ensure that the current CWB policy denying even full Canadian access; let alone every other country; is the very basis for why "the CWB is very good for their farms".
And do those persons give a damn about me and every other farmer who can't benefit from the organic or registered seed exemptions or minimal cost permits?
Now that is real hypocricy and basic philosophical differences that have absolutely nothing to do with any political parties platform.

[chuckChuck]

If you actually asked organic farmers about marketing you would find that board grains are only a portion of their markets. The CWB also offers a cash organic marketing option.

Sucessfull organic farms grow a wide variety of crops for agronomic reasons and because they prefer not to purchase seeds and chemicals from companies who want to monopolize the seed business.

I think many non-organic farmers don't like organic farmers who are successful growing anything without all the investment in chemicals and fertilizers because they know that agri-business charges what the market will bear. As prices go up so does the cost of production.

Successful organic farmers have cut costs, sell into higher value markets, and have increased net incomes.

It was farmer directors (the majority of who are non-organic)who decided to offer all the pricing options (PPOs) at the CWB including the OFSC.

You may not like or use the various pricing options but many farmers do use them.

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Chuck,

If the CWB Directors had been ethical and offered the same options to commercial growers as they voted to themselves for organic wheat and barley... the end of the 'single buying desk' would have been those many years ago... instead of August 1 2012!

HOW arrogant... give your buddies market choice... but reck the CWB now out of spite and vindictive mallace.

The CWB bet the farm... on the wrong horse... and are going to shoot all the horses... because they bet on the horse with the broken leg.

Someone should take Chairman Obergs (and his 7 think alike buddies) guns away from them!!

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I just want chuckchuck to not be ashamed to admit that he is an organic farmer.

I also want him to continue on in his ways to say "No", just like his beloved Board.

Perhaps the Minister, for the common good of saving the bleeding away of farm dollars, will move the date of closure of CWB jurisdiction to the date of royal accent of his legislation.