The Assets of CWB?

[CptnObvious]

The CWB was killed because Harper hated it. No other reason.

[farmaholic]

Tom, did your principles even allow you to sell much throught the CWB? Or were you able to sell most of your cereals through the seed plant? If thats the case I'm not surprised you dont think you have a stake in it.

First guys like you claim the CWB robbed farmers then claim the assets belong to the taxpayer. If we never got fairly paid for our grain shouldn't the proceeds from the sale come back to Producers? An odd opinion coming from a farmer and someone who'd die on the cross defending property.....

[CptnObvious]

It appears Harper hates farmers too:
He killed the CWB which most of us wanted to keep( and the economists and auditors determined to be profitable)
He tries to stop us from getting any value out of what we used to operate.
He wants to change the structure of investment in plant breeding so that farmers get less than 1/3 of the benefit we now get.
He traded away market share for cheese to get exports for beef we cannot use.
He is increasing the length of patents on ag chemicals.
He is lifting the performance order on the railways for winter when they would rather haul oil than grain.

I could go on and on. And sometimes do.

[farmaholic]

Tom, did your principles even allow you to sell much throught the CWB? Or were you able to sell most of your cereals through the seed plant? If thats the case I'm not surprised you dont think you have a stake in it.

First guys like you claim the CWB robbed farmers then claim the assets belong to the taxpayer. If we never got fairly paid for our grain shouldn't the proceeds from the sale come back to Producers? An odd opinion coming from a farmer and someone who'd die on the cross defending property.....

[TOM4CWB]

CptOb,

"The CWB was killed because Harper hated it. No other reason."

You are wrong.

The CWB and folks in management on the left... Killed the CWB. Instead of working with commercial growers... to help these families to be profitable...these short sighted greedy people took away the initiative to develop better returns and arbitrage prices... through the CWB buy-back.

The buy-back was never intended for use against grain western CDN growers... It was intended only to stop grainco's from profiting from the CWB ... as grainco's could buy at the CWB price... and selling at a profit at the expense of western CDN growers...under CWB legislation.

If PM Harper 'hated' the CWB... it would not exist today. Instead I fear the same managers who messed up the single desk... are recking the CWB as an arbitrage tool for the very western CDN growers it was supposed to benefit.
PM Harper and Minister Ritz have been more than patient with these misguided CWB folks in Winnipeg... to say the least.

I did the buyback and exported wheat through the CWB to the US... and got PAID by the pool accounts to do so... to prove the application of the statute was incorrect.

I was told to sell seed into the US as planting seed... the CWB itself told me to LIE and sell it commercially as milling wheat.

I was the first grower to use the Fixed Price Contract the CWB presented as a solution to resolve the pooling distortion. Instead the CWB took a huge basis... to put in the contingency fund... which just amounted to another pooling account and excuse to continue bad marketing practice.

God Bless you guys... I guess it is 'fun' bringing back all the injustice and corruption to my memory... jab me ... I hurt for all my many neighbours who were so hurt by these misguided people like Ralph Goodale... the SWP,AWP, MPE... and those who took billions out of grain growers pockets through the CWB.

[farmaholic]

......and still are without the monopoly and under a different consolidated name and the remaining under their old names....nothings.....changed!!!

[CptnObvious]

Tom, the buyback was only to maintain the integrity of the single desk, so no one could go around it.

The Canadian Wheat Board does NOT exist today. Its' most important feature, the thing that defined it, was the single desk. We have an open market now. Something different is there, in the same building with a few of the same people, but they take orders from the federal government and not a farmer elected board.

Again, still, and unavoidably: we have a much smaller portion of the port price than we used to get. Without the old CWB we is bein' robbed. Money that we used to get is goin' somewhere else. WE HAVE LESS NOW THAN WE DID BEFORE!!!

[sumdumguy]

There is a role today for the CWB, but the political will to install management to make it work are not there. Why? Because the government never put them there. Another government squanders a priceless opportunity.

GREAT! Producers could really use a GOOD marketing tool to keep everyone honest that truly works in their best interest. Au contrare, dear Tom, the producers do have an interest in the CWB.

[stonepicker]

More fairytales about the cwb eh? Yep the cwb made farmers billions every year, its just too bad that they never had canola under their control, then we would'nt have to worry about the crushers making too much money. Because there would be no crushers, but i'm sure the cwb would still have made us more billions. I sold my first 25% of 2014 wht. for 8.08 per bus. in my pocket the day after i hauled it in, but i bet i woud've got 10.00 thru the cwb. ya right!

[ColevilleH2S]

All the Harper haters should be asking themselves "What would [URL="http://www.producer.com/2001/07/bully-or-saviour-samy-watsons-mission/"]Samy Watson[/URL] do?"