Minister Ritz Supports Open, Competitive Grain Market.

[agstar77]

T4, you have decided that Al isn't as sharp as you thought,because he disagree's with your view? Or has he been corrupted by the big bad Board?

[agstar77]

I think Ritter took a cue from Hillary and tired to have a tear in his eye with his statements "just give it a chance" " it is what producers told us they wanted"
"why or why won't you all just give us a chance to prove that we are the best thing since sliced bread"??? Sob weep sob!!
ok he almost got me, ..........
Fat chance !

OK barley farmers its in our hands, do we actually want this or not?
If like me and this makes no sense at all then call your MP, call your Director, call your maltster or grain co and demand a contract from them for next years production! Lets take barley back into our control not the CWB's
Call the CWB's bluff, all they are trying to do is wear down the trade and the maltsters. By not allowing them to do any forward contracting to their customers after Aug 1/08 they (the CWB) is jepardizing sales, strong prices back to barley farmers and risking farmers planting less acres and forcing our maltsters to go else where for their needs or worse yet closing their doors.
What value does the CWB have if it strangles the life out of our end users here in Canada or the grain trade for making sales of their own?
Then again how far would the CWB go to break these maltsters, grain companies into submission? What value does that bring back to my farm?
Speak up barley farmers, let them hear you loud and clear, let Ritz here you loud and clear. That will give him the final push to do what is right.
I don't want to see Ritter cry any more!
Erik

[charliep]

agstar77

While you have tom4cwb thinking, maybe you can help me understand why the program is being announce in 2008 and not 2003 when the issues confronting the malting industry really came to a head after the drought of 2002 (preceeded by the drought of 2001 in southern Alta.). Mr. Oberg seemed to indicate in the webcast this is not a result of the prososal to remove barley from the single desk but rather listening to what farmers want. If this were the case why wasn't it done 3 or 4 years ago and the program announced Wednesday for durum?

[agstar77]

The mills of the gods grind slowly.

[parsley]

Since the minds of the Single-Desk Directors don't grind at all, maybe every farmer needs to make sure Princess Deane's staff earn their keep.

20,000 calls per day for two weeks solid, to the CWB, demanding they listen to farmers, might cause them to note the phone is ringing.

Parsley

[mcfarms]

Erik

Already had the email discussion with my maltster of choice about being willing to sign a contract and make delivery and he said he'd be OK with me going to jail it's just that he claims he doesn't look good in stripes,( Though I'm thinking he'd miss my Barley that saves his a-s year after year) I wonder though how Mr.Harper would like farmers and malsters being charged over something he has said he would fix in the throne speech.

[TOM4CWB]

Charlie,

You are right... I don't get it. AI must stand for "Artifical Intelegence"... no doubt the CWB has plenty of this... and very little "Common Sense".

Choosing a dust buster and spraying raid at us... is not going to stop the stings when this thing explodes in the CWB's face!

[Incognito]

Aggie:

Then godspeed Aggie. An organization is judged on its ability to react to its clients.

And Charlie - Ritter says 10 years in this quote. 10 years and then they are FORCED to do something by government.

http://www.cwb.ca/public/en/newsroom/releases/2007/032807.jsp

Thank you for joining me this afternoon to discuss the results of the barley plebiscite. I'm joined by my fellow director Larry Hill, who's on the phone from Washington, D.C. where he’s representing the board at an international farmer forum.

The results of the barley plebiscite announced today are not overly surprising. The CWB has been surveying farmers every year for the past 10 years and these results appear to be consistent with our annual findings.

[Incognito]

mcfarms
good question, if the maltsters or the grain companies start writing contracts with producers then they are breaking the law and will face the CWB"s wrath.
Fact is they will lose too, so then will the producer take the risk of going to jail? Surely that is the last thing our government wants. Yet it is the customs act not the CWB act that charges will come from.
Fact is the CWB knows this isn't going to work, yet will fight it to the last breath in its decrepit old body.
Erik