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    #1

    CWB starting to layoff staff.

    Anyone see this?
    From Winnipeg free press.com site

    More than three-quarters -- roughly 300 -- of the Canadian Wheat Board's head-office staff in Winnipeg will lose their jobs as the grain-handling agency adjusts to life in the new post-monopoly era.

    CWB spokesperson Maureen Fitzhenry confirmed Tuesday the agency expects to have about 100 workers left when the dust settles early next year. That compares to 430 it had at the start of last year.

    The dramatic downsizing that's already well underway will also leave the board with a largely vacant eight-storey office building by early next year.
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    #2
    The CWB is certainly keeping a low profile. Quite expected really...they are not expected to COMPETE with the private sector...that would never do.

    Farmers have NO control in its policies or direction so sit back and watch its eventual dissolution.

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        #4
        when do you get yours weber

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          #5
          When the last rat leaves 423, then we can talk about karma, Stubble. Until then, enjoy your higher wheat prices...after August 01.

          Guys like yourself should do the admirable thing, and give the 50 cents a bushel difference back to the CWB. You can continue to subsidize a few employees.

          Apples and Oranges ...right?

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            #6
            If the cwb would have started this process 10 years ago they would have been a stonger organization.

            For those of you who enjoyed the cwb for the last 60 years, have any of you woke up and realized what they have been taking from you.

            300 salaries and the pensions and benefits that go along with it for no good reason. The severances of the leeches will be in the 10s of millions.

            Lower grain prices, the cwb isn't in the ballpark with their new pricing.


            How many people does it take to sell grain in lots of 60,000 to 100,000 tonnes?

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              #7
              BTW, they should have got rid of Fitzfunny first.

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                #8
                Hahahaha, agree totaly bucket , lol

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                  #9
                  LWeber......well said. Bucket agreed. Lets think about this.....450 salaried employees with benefits and pensions to sell our wheat and barley. Really? The state of Kansas grows more wheat than all of Canada, and we needed 450 employees to sell our wheat and barley? Sorry for the CWB employees, but hey, the gig is up, it was a fun ride and it lasted plenty long. Collect EI for the summer then start a business in the fall, there will be some nice places for rent on Main Street. A nice bakery comes to mind.
                  Another option is for the CWB to sell farmers canola, peas, oats, lentils. Pooled pricing and everything. They already have offices overseas, and maybe they could train those employess to use those extra words when they are phoning their network of buyers they have known for decades.

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                    #10
                    I think it could have been totally different. I tried
                    repeatedly to buy back wheat because I had a
                    buyer on the line. There was no way in H that
                    they would play ball. They would not give me a
                    buy- back price.

                    The CWB heard all the complaints and years and
                    decades went by and they refused to change. It
                    is kinda sad because its not the employee's fault
                    and I don't think that taking potshots at them is
                    called for. Let's take the high road. These are real
                    people with lives and families. We farmers get a
                    lot of support too from the public purse.

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                      #11
                      Nope, those employees were a bunch of arrogant leeches. They took care of manitoba farmer pretty well when there was a chance of flooding. Shorted other areas for cars and grain movement. Had stupid premiums for using churchill and then charged the rest of us for the backhaul from churchill to vancouver. etc etc etc.

                      I spent enough time on the phone with them and they thought they were gods.

                      I won't shed a tear other than the amount it costs to get rid of them.

                      BTW, 600 bucks for a cwb weekly market report. Weber only charges 250 for a daily plus additional info.

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                        #12
                        Bucket, I had the same sample. It was not a very
                        good newsletter in my opinion. I told my CWB rep
                        the same thing, that weber puts out a daily
                        newsletter with canola,pulse and fertilizer
                        supplementals. I told him their "experts" would
                        have to do better. Then I emailed the exchange
                        over to L weber so he could have a chuckle.
                        But, hey, it's a free country and I do not object to
                        the CWB creating a newsletter, as long as I am
                        not forced to buy it, and I will not goto jail if I
                        subscribe to different ones.
                        Those last 100 employees are thinking they will
                        have to put out something of value or farmers
                        may use independent thinking and find their own
                        way in this big bad nasty scary world!

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