47000 grain growers excluded from CWB barley vote!

[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.

[Burbert]

charliep I have no knowledge of feed
barley shipments from the West coast.
Nor do I care, ifn there was er wasn't.
I rely on the cwb, to keep the playing
field level fer all Comedian farmers,
and to enforce the rules and regulations
that are on the books. Go, cwb, go,
Albertie gov't , go away and do what
yous do best, cater to oilies and give
away whatever resources that Albertie
controls, shame on yous people!

[charliep]

So you sell all your barley through the CWB? I thought over time you indicated at least some sales to the open market?

Maybe you can clarify some of the CWB rules and regulations on barley. When the CWB/maltsters choose cash plus as a market/delivery signal and when do they use the pooling system? Of the many programs the CWB uses on feed barley (tender to the trade, cash price to farmers, early payment values, pooled prices), how do they select the best one and is the best one for the CWB or their farmer stakeholders?

[katoe]

I didnt say i voted yes

[wd9]

Burbert, you are the very reason the Act is being pulled. Can you even begin to comprehend this?

Minister Ritz is allowing the farmers who want the freedom to decide how to market their wheat and barley. For those who want to pool your grain, go ahead and all be equal, that is your choice.