WGRF

[gustgd]

Wow checking great contribution.
If you want my honest straight forward opinion............ and then I erased it.

http://www.westerngrains.com/index.asp?id=13&gfx=&ts=0

Like farms and family businesses passed down through generations, the Endowment Fund has become a legacy for the WGRF. In 1981, $9 million was transferred from the discontinued Prairie Farm Assistance Act, becoming the base of the Endowment Fund. The principal of the Endowment Fund is invested and the earnings are used to fund a wide variety of crop research. Organizing the fund in this way looks to the future and long-term stability of crop research in Western Canada. To date, the Endowment Fund has supported a wealth of innovation across Western Canada and provided over $26 million in funding for over 230 projects across a number of different crop types.



In 2000, the Federal Government named WGRF under the Canada Transportation Act as the organization that would receive funds that were deemed to be in excess of the set revenue cap that governs each of the Canadian railways. Excess funds, plus a penalty of 15%, are transferred into WGRF's Endowment Fund. By funding a variety of research projects on all types of crops, the money benefits all crop producers in the Prairie region.



About $67 million was received by WGRF for the 2007-08 crop year in relation to the hopper car maintenance portion of the revenue cap formula. This one-time increase in resources available to the Endowment Fund significantly increases the funds available to WGRF to support research in the coming years. A key change to Endowment Fund Policy will be the addition of a new process for allocating a portion of the Endowment Fund. The current Letter of Intent (LOI) process, which has been in place for some time, will continue. However, a new process will be added alongside the LOI process and will see WGRF becoming more directive with respect to the research it funds. After receiving input of stakeholders, WGRF identified specific areas of research that are required from a producer perspective. Request for proposals (RFP) will then be issued inviting researchers to submit proposals to conduct the research. For more information on the WGRF Directed Research Program (DRP) please click on the appropriate below.


What's your version of history?

[parsley]

1. The folks who feign worry about free riders and about inequal paying, turn their blind eye to CWB licensing costs.


How many complaints have you read about about pedigreed seed growers getting export licenses from the CWB with no cost: the licensing cost is borne by the rest of the producers who cannot get the license! Ontario producers also get export liceses but the costs are paid by Western farmers.

Where are the moanings of inequal costs?

2. WTO/NAFTA costs were borne by the CWB, yet affected all of Canada. How much did the Quebec Wheat Marketing Board kick into the pot that pays the bill?

I must have missed those who moaned of unequal expenses.

My observation:

Realtime expenses bring silence.
otoh, Realtime funding-hunters screech and kick and lay on the floor, and want more money.

[gustgd]

@parsley

What are you talking about?
The WG'ers have been fighting the Monopoly from all angles since 1979.

Legistlation will be introduced this fall, to eliminate said Monopoly August 1st 2012.

If you don't like the way we went about influencing change at least give props for the results.

[parsley]

So now you're speaking as a WCWG, or still as an individual?

[parsley]

First of all you assume: "Farmer downloading is a concern that will likely happen more"

That's a defeatest's assumption. It will likely happen more only if marble un-alive balls represent us in leadership chairs.

Then you assume my comments were directed at the WCWGA. They were not.

And you do not address my observation:

Some folks repeatedly and publicly beg for funding money, on the basis of 'fairness of paying' INequality. They even dub their neighbors as freeloaders to make their case. It's an institutional tactic. Alienate. Intimidate.

However, I missed the repeated and public degrading that "EQUALITY paying' farmers have suffered for half a century.

Mind you, those full-paying farmers haven't been dubbed freeloaders by their neighbors, either.

Note: The socialists don't call you names unless they don't get their funding. Parsley