Quote: Another advantage with the CWB is keeping
Monsanto out of the GM wheat business. That alone
probably saves me $80,000 per year.
Really? how did you arrive at that figure or is it
pulled out of the air like all of the rest?
Personally I think that if the CWB hasn't opened the
books to show solid proof of the benefit of single
desk marketing then it doesn't exist.
I went to the U of S with Ward, Gord and other
senior executives at the CWB, they were smart but
also very red.
We were drilled with the economic theory that a
monopoly seller extracts a higher profit from the
market.
However, in the real world the theoretical benefits
don't happen. I would argue that is because the
organization is run by a bunch of bureaucrats with
no skin in the game. They are inefficient, with huge
overhead. I would bet the smallest cargo that they
could sell would be so large as to leave them out of
many niche markets where the real money could be
made in cereal grains
I think a lot of the farmers that support the CWB
are simply getting to the end of their farming career
and are scared of change.
If the CWB has such a large support among
farmers(62%) and they do such a good job of
marketing then they should have no problem
operating in a voluntary environment.
Monsanto out of the GM wheat business. That alone
probably saves me $80,000 per year.
Really? how did you arrive at that figure or is it
pulled out of the air like all of the rest?
Personally I think that if the CWB hasn't opened the
books to show solid proof of the benefit of single
desk marketing then it doesn't exist.
I went to the U of S with Ward, Gord and other
senior executives at the CWB, they were smart but
also very red.
We were drilled with the economic theory that a
monopoly seller extracts a higher profit from the
market.
However, in the real world the theoretical benefits
don't happen. I would argue that is because the
organization is run by a bunch of bureaucrats with
no skin in the game. They are inefficient, with huge
overhead. I would bet the smallest cargo that they
could sell would be so large as to leave them out of
many niche markets where the real money could be
made in cereal grains
I think a lot of the farmers that support the CWB
are simply getting to the end of their farming career
and are scared of change.
If the CWB has such a large support among
farmers(62%) and they do such a good job of
marketing then they should have no problem
operating in a voluntary environment.
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