Wheat Growers in the Country Guide

[BTO_farmalll]

BP,

Thats The Exact Philosophy Hunter Harrison and Bill Ackman Have Followed With CeePee!!!!!!!!!


#MoveLessMakeMore!!!!!!!!!

[BTO_farmalll]

Geg Gustofer,

Who Do You Work 4???????

[katoe]

What are the membership fees. They must be quite high with only 500 members. Isnt your policy manager Blair Rutter a full time employee?Airfare to go see Ritz, hotels? Corporate sponsorship perhaps?

[blackpowder]

I don't think CP/CN is like BNSF, BTO. As for airfare and hotels, it's all out of pocket.

[gustgd]

Membership is $300.00 all in

http://www.wheatgrowers.ca/join

Yes we accept sponsorship from all sectors of Ag.
We meet with their representatives to understand their issues.

If you think we'd sell out our farmer members for a few thousand dollars. We would end the association. A voluntary association with over fourty years of history.
Then we would be rightfully bounced by the membership.

If you don't like the ideas or policies attack them. This ad homonym stuff if getting old.

I was looking for another quote but these apply.

"It is amazing how many people think that they can answer an argument by attributing bad motives to those who disagree with them. Using this kind of reasoning, you can believe or not believe anything about anything, without having to bother to deal with facts or logic." -- Thomas Sowell


"When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser." -- Socrates

[bucket]

Gust

Stormin did ask a relevant question.

It does at times seem to appear that wcwga is handcuffed because of sponsorship association. It's optics.

It seems the railway issue is one wcwga took a pass on. It wasn't a left right issue. It is a noncompliance issue that all farm groups should be in agreement on.


Instead the wcwga fell into the nonsense of a market oriented solution for the railways. It was the same line farmers heard when the crow rate was eliminated.

Until the railways start to invest for the future requirements of rail and track capacity there is no solution.

You have to realize that railways over charged farmers for railcar maintenance and grain movement for years.

The railways have to rebuild trust before anyone believes they are actually trying to make a better system.

And I am not shitting on the wcwga but on the railway issue IMHO it would have been better to side with all farm groups as a united front to talk to the government rather than justify the railways position.

[wmoebis]

Does the wcwga advertise their sponsors? Do sponsors advertise that they are sponsors? I have never seen sponsorship lists and not aware of who sponsors are.
I think this lack of transparency breads miss trust.

[dmlfarmer]

I will ask this question again. How many members of the WCGA are actual farmers? Why will the WCGA not answer this question?

[bucket]

Stormin

To change grain contracts legislation will be required.

You will soon learn the federal ag minister is a might slow. Can't think forward so doing nothing is the safest bet.

His staff is protecting him and their jobs now by letting him sign his name to letters to the editor in the producer continuing his pissing match with stewart wells et al. He only sticks to the script now which makes him look more like a puppet.

And yes I voted conservative. Very disappointing.

[blackpowder]

Oh, to be young again.