Why So Many Farmers Miss the Wheat Board

[chuckChuck]

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/rob-magazine/why-so-many-farmers-miss-the-wheat-board/article21810531/

[tweety]

Because they are dumb and lazy?

[Braveheart]

I don't know where these so called "so many" farmers are? Personal care homes? Retired in Phoenix? Mental institutions? Lurking on AgriVille? Moving to Belmont MB? Phantoms or fantasy.

[blackpowder]

Second time this article presented on here in week. Not badly written.
Your time might be better spent charging windmills or whales somewhere else chuckles.

[hobbyfrmr]

LOL! Tilting at windmills. Don Quixote.

[wilagro]

Yep, a Marketing Agency for farmers...what an excellent idea.
I wonder if a new modern Wheat Board would fly if it was organized and implemented without government control.

Imagine the possibilities of controlling your own destiny instead of taking the prices offered by the few grain traders still out to rip you off at every opportunity.

Nah!!! wouldn`t work...too many `smart` producers who can outsmart them thar big boys...you betcha.
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[HFL]

I don't miss the monopoly. I wanted choice including a voluntary CWB. That's what we have and I am happy about it.

[cottonpicken]

Wish somebody could have put up an arguement about it becoming a brokerage,kick out the bad stuff keep the good.

[foragefarmer]

Braveheart and Tweety

You two are perfect examples of why farmers can never work together to accomplish something greater for all Agriculture.

Someone posts on Agriville with regard to the CWB and the best the two of you can come up with is hurl insults like a couple of schoolyard bullies. There's that better than the next guy attitude shinning through as usual.

I'm sure there are, and were many farmers who did support the CWB and may still support the CWB in some sort of form. I'm willing to bet some very successful farmers at that.

It's easy to yap here on Agriville when you know the general consensus is anti CWB.

The grain companies, and RR need not worry about farmers ever pulling together to make changes that would be in the betterment for all farmers with posters like you two.

[tstep]

Right on forage. Small minds don't have a lot of constructive criticism. CWB needed changes but they did a lot of behind the scenes with marketing and rail logistics that we don't have now.

[Braveheart]

Forage, I've never worried about the general consensus of anything. Farms and management styles are all different. The one size fits all of your utopian agrarian dream would never work. You can't contain individuality. Revolution ensues.

[Braveheart]

The CWB would never listen to any suggested changes. They were always right.

Tstep, you're out of step. Marketing and rail logistics we don't have now? That's what the grain cos do. That's what they did even under the CWB regime. There just isn't an extra layer of interference there.

The CWB is still around. Use it if you wish. In fact do you have any of their bids to share? Are they competitive or do you care? Perhaps you only really care about the collective style farming the CWB forced on us all.