Reasons Why should CWB Directors Should Provide DA Farmers With Marketing Choice

[parsley]

11. The CWB should relieve marketing tensions immediately so that farmers can realize these times of record high prices, and lock in potential profits.

12. Three Western Governments agree with Choice farmers. Wake up and smell the roses.

13. Access to Information is probably going to decimate the CWB's credibility.

[BreadWinner]

The CWB has bungled the barley issue so badly that I dont think they can talk their was back into farmers hearts. Instead of proving themselves to farmers by working hard and getting us the prices we deserve, they wholesaled our barley and spent to much time and money on trying to hold onto POWER. They should hand the barley monopoly back to farmers as a token and they can try to save thier hides by getting us more for our wheat. I dont want to hear anything from the CWB about this issue. If you are a delegate or work for the CWB GET YOUR A$$ back to doing what you are suppossed to be doing or we will ripp the whole CWB from under you and you can get a new job that you have to be accountable for.

[AdamSmith]

#1 will take forever. Just try to reason with a Liberal Senator.

Parsley, the odds of reasoning with a Liberal Senator are ten fold better than reasoning with a cwb director IMO.

We've been trying to change the cwb from within for well over ten years now, and if the cwb monopoly was measured in distance, equivilent to the distance between Edmonton and Winnipeg, Edmonton being a free market and Winnipeg being single desk, my analysis puts the cwb directors in, oh, somewhere around Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario.

Which director do you see changing his position?

#1 Bill Toews
#2 Bill Nicholson
#3 Rod Flaman
#4 Kyle Korychuck
#5 Ian McReary
#6 Ken Ritter
#7 Larry Hill
#8 The other guy who's name I forget

Now seriously tell me which of these gentelmen are all of a sudden going to abandon the single desk position in favour of anything that would give farmers the freedom to tell the cwb to piss off, I don't have to deal with you?

[parsley]

AS,

I guess I'd like
# 4 tonight
then everyone could export tommorow

followed by #2
as soon as possible...
first reading
second reading
third reading....

Parsley

And you?

[Fransisco]

I think Adam Smith is right, if reason where something these directors responded to we'd already have had choice years ago. They are not interested in reasoning, in rights, in economics, in what is best for farmers.

They are a lot closer to the"Butchie" Harder line of thinking than they would probably care to admit. That letting farmers sell their own barley will mean the end of medicare. It's all about the fight for global socialism for these blokes and I think they are ready to die on this wheat board hill so they can collect their 72 virgins or beaureaucrats or virgin beaureaucrats or whatever it is that good little socialists get when they go to socialist heaven(which I think is located somewhere in North Korea).

[parsley]

The Wheat Growers' say this:



Media Release
For Immediate Release: January 30, 2008

Wheat Growers Applaud Minister Ritz for Plans to Move Forward on Barley

The Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association is pleased the federal government has signaled its intent to bring about a free market in barley by August 1, 2008.

“It is evident that Canadian malt barley sales are being lost under the current regime,” says Mike Bast, Chair of the Wheat Growers. “The inability of maltsters to contract directly with farmers means they cannot secure supplies to confidently book forward sales contracts.”

Bast made his comments following the meeting in Ottawa yesterday in which Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz met with the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB), the malting companies, the brewers, the grain handlers and producer groups. Bast attended the meeting along with the Wheat Growers Alberta Vice President Stephen Vandervalk.

The unworkability of the CWB’s new CashPlus program and its inability to fully transmit market signals creates needless uncertainty for farmers and other malt industry players. This price and delivery uncertainty means that acreage will continue to shift to those crops where farmers are in a position to contract directly with buyers.

“Moving to free up the barley market would increase barley acreage and increase the percentage of the crop sold into higher value malt markets,” says Vandervalk. “It would also spur greater investment in barley processing here on the prairies. More local market opportunities means more competition for our grain.”

In the meeting, the CWB representatives did indicate a willingness to refer the matter to the CWB Board of Directors, who will be holding a strategic planning session this week.

“Unless the CWB is prepared to provide farmers with real market choice on its own, the Minister has no choice but to take steps to give farmers barley marketing freedom by August 1, 2008,” says Bast. “Farmers will soon be finalizing planting decisions and need to know they can count on an open market once that crop is harvested.”

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For further comment, please contact:

Mike Bast
Chair
(204) 256-6187
Stephen Vandervalk
Alberta Vice-President
(403) 795-1171

[parsley]

Franscisco and AdamSmith,

IF The CWB Directors are not interested in reasoning, in rights, in economics, and in what is best for farmers, this week at their Directors' Meeting by granting immediate releif from the monopoly, then I would like to see the Government proceed to # @.

Destroy them completely.

Parsley

[parsley]

oops

@ = #2

[AdamSmith]

Since you asked Parsley,

#2 on your hit list is #1 in my heart.

parsley, it's not just the eight Karl Marx wannabee's that are at play inside the nuthouse at 423 Main. It's the likes of Ward Weasel, Dear Deanna, Earl Giddies, and fifty other kool-aid drinkers that need to experience a paradigm shift here,

I wish I could think that might happen, but unfortunatly,

It just ain't gonna happen.

Not tommorow anyways.

Our best bet is for Ritz and the boys to fight it out in Ottawa.

My guess a letter or phone call to any number of Bloq MP's has far more yield potential than a loathsome conversation with any one of the Karl Marx eight.

[parsley]

You are far too persuasive for such a subdued spirit such as I.

I was merely anticipating marketing choice first thing Friday morning, and I thought perhaps some of the Directors may try to salvage the accelerating erosion of confidence of their die-hard supporters.

62% of farmers want an instant divorce now, and many of them will no longer politely concede to the notion of duality; Board-spurning multiples.

The captive shareholders are bailing out.

The noticable mass-rejection of the CWB itself, at the farmgate, should stir the Directors to act in a conciliatory manner, and prompt some negotiating fervor.

Unless they are truly dull of mind.

Parsley