Strahl to Resign?

[wd9]

ProFarmer, you can't fire an elected director on a board. No judge required to challenge that law. He was doing his job protecting the interests of the corporation. For him not to do it would be reason for litigation and dismissal. Whether farmers are better off is irrelevant - board policy rules.

[tower]

Tom4cwb,tell me more about fair trade grains. It's a concept that i like and would be interested in how it might work given north American attitudes about necessities like food.

How could the Wheat board be a part of this kind of venture?

[ProFarmer]

if we can't fire Ritter send him over to Afganistain or Iraq . He has made my last 2 days a living hell.

[TOM4CWB]

Tower,

1. On ""Canada #1 Certified" Fair Trade Grain, for a start, the CWB could issue no-cost export licenses for "Designated Area" growers that create a market for their grain Above CWB offering prices... which return value chain participants reasonable value and profit.

2. The CWB itself could seek growers who are interested in working with industry partners, and who would supply end users with high quality grain at a fair price. We could Brand this as ""Canada #1 Certified" Fair Trade Grain", and the end user would then be entitled to use this Brand in marketing the product their value chain was producing. This would be a tracable IP origin product, with a number the consumer could look up our farm name/produce origin and picture avaliable on our "FairTradeGrain.ca" web site.

3. For Produce the CWB finds "FairTradeGrain" value chain markets that are developed and maintained by the CWB itself, it would then be allowed to charge a fair price for this service and be a "FairTradeGrain" initiator and sell this grain also as "Certified" "FairTradeGrain" Produce. If a Canadian "Designated Area" grower finds the CWB has used "Preditory" pricing practices, We will run an Arbitration Service that has the right to revolk the "Certified" "FairTradeGrain" brand, or conversely the CWB could call for arbitration if a Value Chain in the "Designated Area" had breached our codes.

I have registered FAIRTRADEGRAIN.ca and FAIRTRADEGRAIN.com.

I would be willing to work with the CWB to set this project up, if they will agree to this Criteria and agree to abide by our CANADIANGRAINSGROUP.com pledge. I will work directly with our Canadian Government to get the Right Honourable PM Harpers blessing on this produce, once the CWB has entered into a contract, with us, to agree to this market discipline tool to create value for "Designated Area" grain growers.

If you are willing to help with this project Tower, and willing to live up to the Pledge Canadiangrainsgroup.com stands by, I would welcome you to apply our group for a membership.

Sign our Guest Book, and lets see what we can create together!

[TOM4CWB]

Tower,

Call your local CWB Director, and ask for them to support Tom4cwb as President!

[tower]

Tom4cwb, I had a quick look at some of your suggested companies and found no sign of willingness to comply with any of your criteria, admirable as they are. I also looked for fairtradegrain sites and found nothing yet.

I gather you are trying to set this up and I'd be happy to see companies giving full disclosure of their share of the value chain, but I don't really see this happening for the majority of the companies you've listed.

[tower]

Tom4cwb I thought you might find this site usefull, plenty of info on a variety of agricultural concerns related to fair trade issues.

http://www.agribusinessaccountability.org/bin/view.fpl/1194.html

[TOM4CWB]

Tower,

You asked.

I gave you an honest answer.

Our farm has practiced "Fair Trade Grain" with these "Value Chain" participants; reasonable people can create new prosperity... IF they are willing to respect each other.

Chairman Ritter does not want to lead, and it is very unlikely the new President and CEO of the CWB will be any better than Chairman Ritter is now.

The attitude that Ritter and the "Single Desk" Directors have of using a GUN to force us to market through the CWB is a pathetic fear based tactic that will never produce a "Fair Trade Grain" system.

As for Chairman Ritters comment that Minister Strahl sit down and negotiate with the CWB... this is a pure cop out.

Minster Strahl has made his points at every single CWB meeting, that any of his appointed DIrectors participated in.

Chairman Ritter and his tools of destruction have found a way to point that CWB gun at themselves and hurt the relationship with "designated area" growers in very real and substantial ways.

They would rather destroy the CWB than make it the instrument of a "Fair Trade Grain" prosperity.

Shame,

Proof the CWB "SIngle DEsk" it simply geared to steal growers grain at below premium price and the majority of the time below the cost of production.

LEAD, Follow, or get out of the WAY.

If you can't figure it out... please GET OUT OF THE WAY!

[Jay-mo]

What really bothers me about this whole thing is alot of the news stories talking about how "farmers" need to be the ones deciding the barley issue. Then in the next breathe they quote the pro-cwb talking about how its so great that a judge stopped barley from going open market....??????
I personally dont know any farmer or even non-farmer that supports the cwb monopoly on barley or wheat.
Where are these "farmers" that are making the decisions on behalf of all farmers??
What a freaking joke!

[tower]

Tom4cwb, I never said you were being dishonest, if you can please let us know what the details of your fair trade contracts with the various companies were. I said that I couldn't find any evidence on their websites showing that they were willing to abide by fair trade standards and I would be hgappy to learn differently.

It would be quite a turn around for many of them and a welcome one.

The cwb hasn't used any gun that I know of other than the rule of law which is kind of a standard thing that a lot of people look to to preserve societies values.

[Fransisco]

The appropriate use of force by a government is to protect a persons rights. Using the 'law' to take away a persons rights, in this case the right to the property that they themselves created, is not what a civilized nation does.

There is nothing civilized about putting farmers in jail for selling their own wheat, it is the exact opposite of justice, and is no better than any other form of theft.

It's long since time to take the gun away from the CWB and let them earn their business honestly.

[Fransisco]

Tower anyone who believes that it is perfectly fine to put their neighbors in jail because they have a difference of opinion on how to market their crop, has serious deficiencies in the morality department.