Old way of marketing?

[gregpet]

Still no actual, verifiable proof I_F?

[blackpowder]

In response to the farmer protest, Tweed sent a letter to Oberg, requesting legal amnesty for the people responsible for disposing of the grain in front of his office.

"I certainly wouldn't want to sell it," Tweed said, noting it would be illegal for him to do so.



Once again truth is funnier than fiction.

[parsley]

Dear I_F
My observation has been that ever since the
CWB began marketing organic wheat, Ms
Organic Marketing Department Failuret must
have initially adopted the 'lowest price is the law'
single desk policy. 

The wheat board stole the names of the organic
buyers, undercut hard-working organic farmers,
pushed the buyback high enough to eliminate the
organic farmers with established contracts, and
then raced for the lowest selling price. 

And did all of it secretly, selectively, cockily, and
paid for it with farmers money. 

And the CWB has become infamous, and now
have to live  with exactly what they earned:
1.  Farmer contempt
2.  Farmer distrust
3.. Buyer distrust (many organic buyers openly
wrote the CWB saying they wanted to buy directly
from farmers, not the CWB.)
4.  Bloated bureaucracy lolling  about the
countryside trying to justify their jobs.  (But
forever trying " to get  up to speed" )
5.  A foreign CEO 
6. Unions galore stickhandling  the CWB behind
the scenes
7.  A 70 year old institution deteriorated into a
entity of ridiculousness
8. Departments stuffed  with incompetent people
soon  looking for a job. 
9. Farmers pitted one against the other through
CWB tactics 
10. A legacy of constipated
Innovation hovering above agriculture.
11. The castration of decency in a Canadian
institution. (Surely Nettie Weibe, Ralph Goodale,
Pat Martin, Wayne Easter and the Grade Eight
CWB directors are the last
of the  fanatics who advocate and defend jailing
farmers who sell their own wheat.). It's indecent. 
12.  The CWB has picked winners and losers
arbitrarily  Warburtons  approved vs Sask pasta
plant denied. 

Even if single dealers glue another $0.50 per
bushel on your estimated glorious CWB earnings
the past ten years, the negative costs and
community loss of having a single CWB desk is
incalculable. 

Thats what single deskers own.  
Live with it. 

[bucket]

and parsley

13. Losing a generation of farmers to every other industry in western canada.

[sddickson]

Pars !! ,do you think you can link this thread you wrote here , to the WINNIPEG FREE PRESS's comments forum under dumping grain on Manitoba MP's door step ??
I could realy use a hand over here and any other pro choicer's comments would be greatly appreciated.
THANK YOU ! S.D.

[jdepape]

I_F:
"You put it on a train and send it to port, which costs money, but not near as much as it would cost you in the United States."

Where do you get the idea that rail freight is higher in the US? From the CWB Alliance?

Check the freight rate tariffs in both countries - BN and CP or CN. Pick points of similar distance to port.

You will be amazed (or confused) when you see that the rates are very, very close.

BTW - elevation and handling is higher up here (on CWB grains).

[parsley]

s*****on, just cut and paste some of the points
didnt know what story you were writing on. Pars