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    Australia minister urges Canada to open grain mkt

    http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/09/wheat-canada-trade-idUSN1E7881D920110909


    Australia more than doubled wheat export markets

    * Ottawa planning to scrap Canadian grain monopoly

    By Rod Nickel

    SASKATOON, Saskatchewan, Sept 9 (Reuters) - Canada is wise to plan the removal of its grain marketing monopoly, Australia's trade minister said on Friday, noting that opening the wheat market has boosted his country's trade position.

    Australia dismantled its wheat monopoly under the Australian Wheat Board in 2008, leaving the Canadian Wheat Board as the world's only major agricultural monopoly.

    "It's had a very positive impact," Australian Trade Minister Craig Emerson said after meetings of the Cairns Group of agricultural exporters in Saskatchewan, Canada.

    Australian wheat now exports to 41 countries with multiple sellers, compared to 17 under the single-desk AWB, Emerson said.

    "That's a dramatic lift in export performance and diversification and that's what breaking a monopoly in marketing is all about."

    Canada's Conservative government plans to present legislation this autumn to do away with the CWB's monopoly over Western Canada's wheat and barley in August 2012. Holding a majority of seats in the House of Commons allows Conservatives to pass legislation without needing support from opposition parties.

    Many farmers want to keep the monopoly and think pooling farmers' grain brings them the highest price. Selling individually to grain handlers gives those companies the upper hand on farmers, some say.

    But Emerson said a monopoly doesn't necessarily seek to maximize profits. The arrival of multinational farm companies like Viterra Inc (VT.TO) and Agrium Inc (AGU.TO) since the monopoly breakup has been helpful and given Australian farmers choice, Emerson said.

    "If you enter a race and you're the only entrant, you're probably not going to run very fast. But if you've got a red-hot field, it's going to bring out the best in you." (Editing by David Gregorio)

    #2
    Oh yeah, the open market is really going to suck. LOL

    I can't wait for next year!

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      #3
      nah ive changed my mind im all for you guys keeping your single desk.
      Its wonderful gives you everythinh you want in life and more loyal than your dog and faithful just like your wifes.

      You guys keep your markets and we will find a few more but your doing a dang good job and all of you know tom and freewheat and jd and all those guys are only stirring they like it more than sugar in there coffee.

      End of story no change for canada it will destroy the fabric in which you guys survive on. Just listen to integrity far,mer and willagro the leaders of the future.

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        #4
        Thanks Mallee!

        We got over 30 C today... first time this year!
        Am Cutting Canola at night!

        Hope your crops do well!

        Cheers!

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          #5
          Got my Ontario Farmer yesterday, with almost half-
          page (EACH) letters to the editor from Oberg and Ann
          Slater (an Ontario NFU director) both extolling the
          virtues of the CWB and how mean the conservatives
          are to even think about getting rid of it.

          I'm only surprised they didn't bring the ghost of Jack
          Layton into it again...

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            #6
            Thanks very much. We look forward to a rewarding future for our children.

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              #7
              <i>"Non-Acceptable Postings -The following types of postings will NOT be tolerated in Agri-ville.com:

              Remarks that personally threaten any Agri-ville.com participant, including members and moderators.

              <b>Remarks that are slanderous or defaming in any form.

              Remarks that use profanity"</b> </i>

              So why is the slanderous, foulmouth CWB single desk supporter still here?

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                #8
                "integrity farmer", a real oxymoron.

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                  #9
                  Faithful Wives?????? Bullshit, WHERE?????????

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                    #10
                    Has the world tipped on its axis? What kind of fruitcakes?

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                      #11
                      I think the world has gone crazy!

                      Did you see this?

                      Bureaucrat fired for looking at pornography on work computer gets rehired

                      09/09/2011 8:00:00 AM

                      by Monica Bugajski
                      A Citizen and Immigration Canada senior bureaucrat fired in November of 2009 for spending the majority of his work hours surfing the Internet for porn recently got his job back by arguing that he had been bored and hadn't had enough work.


                      After an internal investigation found 335 sexual images on his work computer, Franklin Andrews, a policy advisor at Citizenship and Immigration Canada, admitted that between September and November of 2008 and between May and August of 2009 he spent 50%-100% of his paid time at work finding and looking at pornographic pictures. Consequently, he was fired.


                      But after appealing to the decision and basing his defense on the grounds that he was bored and didn't have a sufficient amount of work to keep him busy, the Public Service Labour Relations Board reinstated his position in early August.


                      The labour board decided that because Andrews' mangers had failed to manage him, because Andrews had been a government employee, with an otherwise clear record, for such a lengthy period of time, and because Andrews had freely admitted guilt, less "heavy-handed" forms of discipline, like rehabilitation and correction, would be more appropriate.


                      Now, I'm not exactly sure how or why the labour board found any rationale in Andrews' argument because, to me, his defense makes a mockery of not only the civil service but also his co-workers.


                      While Andrews was twiddling his thumbs (let's hope that's all he was doing) and looking at porn out of "boredom," his colleagues were working overtime. So one could deduce that his colleagues were doing the work that Andrews should have been doing had his superiors managed him better, as the labour board claims they should have done.


                      But since when do senior-level bureaucrats require such supervision and management that they cannot be held responsible for making proper use of their own time?


                      Shouldn't we be trying to weed out these kinds of inept individuals?


                      What I don't understand is why the labour board would want a "worker" like Andrews back. I don't care how long he's had the position, if someone admits to spending the majority of seven months looking at porn while he is being paid to do work, that person should absolutely not get his job back.


                      There are so many more deserving and proactive individuals who could fill his position. It's mind-boggling that the labour board would choose to reinstate someone who is willing to brazenly waste taxpayer's resources and shamelessly ruin the reputations of other capable and hardworking civil servants.

                      http://news.sympatico.ca/oped/coffee-talk/senior_bureaucrat_fired_for_looking_at_pornography _on_work_computer_rehired/b6942b90

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