When CWB is gone

[Hopperbin]

Willie I think I have a neighbour like you, he grows everything but cwrs. Yet is bound by the fact that if we did not have the cwb our wheat which is given away today would be offered cheaper yet. And he thinks everything else like canola etc would be sold for 2 bucks a bushel if our wheat board was gone. How do you talk to such a guy?

[blackpowder]

Hopper, arguing with some people is like wrestling a pig in the mud. Eventually you realize the pig enjoys it.

[FarmRanger]

Hopper, that thinking reminds me of a story from
the time of the old Soviet Union.
Some dignitaries from communist Russia visited
the US and were taken on a tour of a
supermarket. They thought that the whole tour
was a mock-up because there was no way the
free market could provide such selection and
quality when they had food lines to receive basic
food stuffs back in their own central planning
Utopia.

The same thinking can't understand why our own
state trading agency has driven away value added
processing, and erodes rather than adds value.