Marketing Skills

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A few days ago, a Portage la Praire farmer was having some work done at his local garage.

A CWB Marketing Specialist came in and asked for a seven-hundred-ten.

The guys in the garage all looked at each other and another customer asked, "What is a seven-hundred-ten?"

The CWB Marketing Specialist replied,
"You know, the little piece in the middle of the engine, I have lost it and need a new one."

He explained that he did not know exactly what it was, but this piece had always been there.

The Portage mechanic gave him a piece of paper and a pen, and asked him to draw what the piece looked like.

The CWB Marketing Specialist drew a circle and in the middle of it wrote 710.

The mechanic then took the CWB Marketing Specialist over to another car which had its hood up and asked "is there a 710 on this car?"

The CWB Marketing Specialist pointed and said, "Of course, its right there."


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Ever wonder about those low returns for FARMERS?

[per]

Best leave out the punch line otherwise the CWB will think it struck oil.

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Speaking of somebody who struck oil and had it flowing for years:

Larry Kusch wrote:

"Deanna Allen, former vice-president of farmer relations and public affairs who was recently fired by the board, made an annual salary of $181,600, which made her the fourth-highest paid employee of the board."


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[SASKFARMER3]

The funny thing is it isn't a joke! This is what we have in Winterpeg for experts who look after our product.
Trust us we know better.

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News from Down Under:

A couple of Australian dudes leading the WEMA want wheat marketing changes delayed, claiming they represent the growers. They're trying to buy time, claiming nobody is ready for a change, probably still using typewriters.

Sounds like CWB tactics.

Meantime, back on the ranch, the Aussie Minister was pushing for a “regulated but competitive wheat export market" in Australia, and stuck to his guns.

Of course, he's gotten into the discussion paper thing hoping everything will be eventually developed by the Industry Export Group

One Australian newsletter alluded to how farmers were being ripped off in the pool under the old system, and also how bribes were being paid to Iraq.

Growers need to take the lead in Australia, just as they need to do so in Canada. If you don't run your business, someone else will be glad to do it for you.

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Who's gonna know better...better...

best, yes best,

in Ottawa's hogs' mudpen?



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Breaking News
Liberals, NDP at odds over CWB
Updated at 8:23 PM

By Bruce Owen

A lobby group to stop the Canadian Wheat Board from being dismantled by the Harper government has enlisted the help of Liberal and New Democrat MPs in an bid to tell Canadians the decision to end the CWB's monopoly will destroy the nation's farm economy.

Winnipeg NDP MPs Pat Martin and Judy Wasylycia-Leis along with Liberal MPs Ray Simard and Anita Neville joined the Save MY CWB today to criticize the Ottawa for how it's handled the CWB controversy, which has seen the high-profile firings of two senior CWB officials who allegedly fired for not supporting the federal government's move towards greater marketing choice for wheat and barley.

But the united front didn't stay united for long.

The CWB issue will hit the House of Commons next week when new legislation is expected to be tabled ending the board's barley monopoly. The federal government is also fighting a lower court decision that stopped it from allowing barley farmers to sell their grain outside the wheat board.

Martin said the CWB should be a confidence motion, which could force an election, and he challenged the Liberals to vote alongside the NDP.


"It's time for friends of the Canadian Wheat Board to step forward and be counted," he said.

However, he doubted the Liberals would do anything to force an election as they only have one MP west of Manitoba.

Simard, who was sitting just a few feet away, called Martin's comments a political cheap shot.

Simard could not say whether the Liberals would abstain from a vote on the wheat board if it is deemed a confidence motion.


On Wednesday, New Democrat finance critic Thomas Mulcair said Liberal Leader Stephane Dion has shown "incredible weakness" by indicating his party might abstain from a vote on the federal budget.

bruce.owen@freepress.mb.ca
With files from Canadian Press
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Honk, Honk, snort snort...the employees and unions don't want to lose those CWB JOBS JOBS JOBS


Stand up and tell them to go to hell, farmers, or you will be supporting them and their assistants and their assistants to their assistants until your kids move away and you die.

Here's the article I gleaned from the Save my CWB website:


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Minister, MP’s, producers stand up for CWB orderly marketing Article Tools

The Agriculture Union – PSAC and Save My CWB Press Release
February 21, 2008

(Winnipeg) The federal government is proceeding with reckless haste on all fronts related to Canada’s valuable grain sector and this could have devastating consequences, according to producers and grain inspectors as well as representatives of the federal opposition parties.

At a news conference in Winnipeg, representatives from Save My CWB Campaign were joined by Manitoba’s Minister of Agriculture Rosann Wowchuk, Winnipeg-area Liberal and NDP MP’s, Bill Nicholson, the elected District 9 Director of the Canadian Wheat Board, Hudson Bay Route Association President Arnold Grambo and a representative for the Agriculture Union – PSAC to call attention to the ill-advised rush to fundamentally transform the grain sector.

Winnipeg area MP’s Pat Martin, Anita Neville, Raymond Simard and Judy Wasylycia-Leis, drew attention to the significance of the orderly marketing of grains to the economy of Manitoba and of its capital. Winnipeg is home to the head offices of the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) and the Canadian Grain Commission (CGC), and orderly marketing of grains is a big part of the province’s $3.7 billion agricultural industry.

Within the past month, the federal Conservative Minister of Agriculture Gerry Ritz has:

threatened to legislate an end to barley marketing by the Wheat Board, despite overwhelming evidence that producers do not support this option and a clear ruling by the Federal Court of Canada;

introduced legislation (Bill C-39) that will gut the Grain Commission, the independent body that provides essential services to grain producers. C-39 completely ignores the unanimous recommendations of an all–party Parliamentary committee for reform of the CGC;

decreed an end to Kernel Visual Distinquishability (KVD) in the face of a broad consensus that a new mechanism to identify and protect wheat varieties and the integrity of our wheat exports cannot be developed before 2010;

made the patronage appointment of former Reform MP Elwin Hermanson as Chief Commissioner of the Grain Commission and oversaw the firing of Wheat Board Vice President Deanna Allen.

“This Conservative government is putting the future of farmers and of all Canadians who benefit from grain at risk,” said Ken Sigurdson, spokesperson for the Save my CWB Campaign. Sigurdson noted that the CWB’s S&P credit rating had recently been downgraded due to the uncertainty generated by Ritz’s actions. “The government needs to listen to the elected Directors of the Wheat Board; the only body democratically elected by all of the farmers of Western Canada,” Sigurdson added.

By introducing Bill C-39, the Conservative Government ignored the advice of the House of Commons Agriculture Committee, which called for cost/benefit analysis and pilot projects before proceeding with reforms to the Canadian Grain Commission. Delaying Bill C-39 would give the government the time to do the required due diligence.

“The Conservatives are only one party in Canada’s parliament and thankfully they are not a majority government. We call on parliament to reject this ill-advised and poorly prepared legislation that will gut the Canadian Grain Commission and put grain exports at risk.

Parliament should send the government back to the drawing board to get this bill right,” said Howard Willems, Vice President of Agriculture Union – PSAC. “C-39 should be withdrawn and only brought back if and when it is designed to support Canada’s farmers and their international reputation for excellence”.

The Save My CWB Campaign is a group of farmers and activists committed to giving voice to the majority of farmers who have voted for a strong and vibrant Canadian Wheat Board. Our web site is savemycwb.ca

The Agriculture Union – PSAC represents 9500 people who work at Agriculture Canada, the Canadian Grain Commission, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, and other workplaces.
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PS

CHOBS, CHOBS, CHOBS For Manitoba.

Do you suppose both Hudson Bay Route Association President Arnold Grambo and a representative for the Agriculture Union – PSAC, would both like call you greedy, take the 6 Billion worth of grain, run your business, and er...keep a little for their private Manitoba Paypal?

Yup.


Either run your godlamb business, or they will glady take it away from you.

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I know the actual malt barley production coming out of Manitoba is extremely small, does anyone know about the percentage of board sales of wheat that actually are grown in Manitoba?

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Andrew Oland, president, Moosehead Breweries Ltd. is on BNN tonight at 5:00 Eastern

He sounds Egyptian.

If you grow malt barley, listen in.

If you don't listen in.

All markets for grain can affect your bottom line.

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silver,

A bit of a graph:
http://www.grainscanada.gc.ca/Quality/barley/2006/barley06hshighlights-e.htm#distribution

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silverback:

CGC data 06/07 crop year:

MB CWB wheat deliveries: 3.09 mmt
Total CWB deliveries: 14.62 mmt

MB proportion: 21%

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for those that are interested.....

06/07 crop year:

MB CWB barley deliveries: 117,800 tonnes
Total CWB barley deliveries: 1.724 mmt

MB proportion: 6.8%

This is malt and feed combined - but it'll be mostly (if not all) malt.

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Easy on us Manitobans boys.
We're not all socialist politicians from winnipeg
The question you should be asking is how much malt and wheat is produced in Winnipeg?

NONE

I could care less about Winnipeg or the CWB jobs.

The NDP is such a joke.

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So if Manitoba producers produce 7% of cwb barley sales, and 21% of cwb wheat sales, why are the only people quoted in the media from Manitoba?

Oops, my mistake, these are not even cwb sales volumes correct? These are just acres. How much of their wheat production ends up in the livestock sector?

Anyone? Vader?

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silver,

Why is it you never ask a question for which you do not know the answer?

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