47000 grain growers excluded from CWB barley vote!

[TOM4CWB]

Breakdown by wheat and barley ballots sent out:

Wheat Growers – 66,020 wheat ballots were mailed out. Of these, 22,764 or 34.48% supported retention of the single desk. On barley, 21,473 ballots were mailed out. Of these, 6,283 or 29.3% supported the single desk.

So this means with 68000 ballots in total; 2000 ballots were mailed out to barley growers only;

And

47000 growers got ripped off and not sent a ballot on Barley at all!!!

[SASKFARMER3]

I grow barley quarter a year or two for twenty
years got one vote because it's a joint book

[ProFarmer]

I have grown barley for 20 years but only sold it privately so no vote either. The paperwork needed i said to hell with it. Barley has been listed in my cash advance form, Crop insurance form and in my permit book for the last 20 years still no vote. BULL...T

[TOM4CWB]

Chairman Oberg knew and knows better than to spout the line they didn't/couldn't know we grew barley.

I hope his nose grows as long as a garden hose... down to his toes!

[newguy]

I grew barley for years and vowed would not anymore as long as the CWB controls it. Got no vote on barley.

[ajl]

I have grown barley these last couple of
years and didn't get a vote either. Even
had a cash advance on it from the CWB,
still no vote for barley. This plebisite
was just a joke and must be completely
ignored.

[katoe]

All you had to do was sign an affidavit to geta ballot .take care of your business and stop blaming eveyone else.The barley vote was so close. Your vote would have made adifference.

[Burbert]

Early on during the pleb, yous guys said
that yous were wipping your a holes wit
the ballots mailed to yous. Now yous
saying that yous voted, er didn't get ta
vote cousin they didn't send yous a
ballot. Which is it? Whinning and
snivelling, is the next step in the
Comedian farming process, obviously!

[Burbert]

I grow barley, got a ballot as required.
Opened the letter, grabbed a pen, marked
my X. Sealed up the return. Went ta town
and mailed it back. Took about 1/2 hr.
Truly a meaningful event, in Comedian
farming this Fall. Results true/correct.
Now the fight begins wit the foools runn
this great nation! Democracy er not,
guess wes gonna see eh!

[charliep]

katoe

Just curious why you voted yes on barley. Was it simply a political statement? Can you see real value the CWB provides barley keeping in mind barley is already an open market crop (80 % is sold or fed domestically)? What is the value?

The CWB does not source feed barley under the traditional pooling system any more. Even Schmitz and Schmitz admit there is no value to the CWB on feed barley (this years study paid for by the CWB). The fight is over malt barley. You can read Schmitz and Schmitz to see how they showed. I struggle with their conclusions given malt barley values have been under domestic feed barley in 3 of the 5 years used in the study.

Back to the question. A political decision on your vote or business one. If a business decision, what are benefits you see in retaining barley under single desk?

[TOM4CWB]

Katoe,

The Magnificent 8 knew we grew barley. Chairman Oberg deliberately misled everyone. They should be fired. I refuse to participate in a scam. This plebicite was as correctly stated by Minister Ritz... an expensive survey that has no accuracy and was a total waste of my money.

[charliep]

Burbert

Two cargoes of feed barley done off the west coast in the last month. Given your knowledge of the CWB, how was feed barley sourced from the country? Was the feed barley sourced using traditional CWB contracts or directly from the trade? If there were profits on the feed barley sales, where is this money going? Will the growers who grew the feed barley benefit or will it be used to pay for other things?

[TOM4CWB]

Charlie,

It would be interesting to get a real survey done now.. and see just how much the CWB has turned off growers in the past 2 months. A follow up to the spring survey... Alberta growers are very likely more annoyed than ever before!

I bet they lost significant ground on the 'single desk' and the value of the CWB to our farms!

[highwayman]

Why not conduct a survey on the support of the single desk with growers in Western Canada that asks honest questions without a politicol agenda, commissioned by the provincial governments that are invlolved in the designated area. Conducted by some organization like Informa Economics that is highly reveered and has no axe to grind with the CWB. Direct questions that dont confuse the issue while looking for predetermined results unlike the CWB does in their own surveys. I have never seen the likes of it when the CWB asks you the same question over and over in different wording and different angles looiking for the results that reflect the best on themselves. Do you want a choice on who you sell your grain to....YES or NO.

[craig]

The CWB is trumpeting democracy. Should be time for
a vote in Alberta to remove it self from designated
area. Only difference is the vote would be open to all
producers who grow wheat and barley. No dead
people, no landlords and no retired farmers. Since B.C.
and Ontario are not part of the designated area should
already have precedence in place.