makin' it work

[kamichel]

OF course this comes down to the 3 question ballot that us farmers supposedly cannot comprehend. You know when I look around at my neighbors I see a lot of very intelligent people.

[parsley]

That is a keen observation.

The farm community is composed of folks who are extremely hard working, extremely skilled, plus have an unbelievably wide array of skills, co-operate in their communities, just look at the rinks, volunteer both time and money, raise good kids, (how maany farm kids do you find in jail), are good neighbors, and contribute billions to the Canadian economy.


Celebrate who/what you are.


Parsley

[wilagro]

parsley: As opposed to the slothful CWB supporter no doubt...as he/she sits in front of the TV all day and eats TV dinners.

[tower]

silverback, utopia? no I don't think that's it,,, is your utopia one farmer by the name of cargterra admausea tyson?

I do think we would be better off with more farmers on the land than we have now, from a sustainability perspective each farm has it's own optimums and limiting factors. Overall criteria will include availability of fuel and water in the context of climate changes.

The closer a farm manager is to the peculiarities of the land he or she is responsible for, the better chance we have of being self sufficient.

[tower]

highwayman, The quota was a percentage of deliverables, whether high producer or low producer. I don't see an advantage to the low producer in that. That may have been the excuse used to give preference however.

It probably wasn't the cwb doing it but perhaps there was a message in it for those of us who were trying to out produce ourselves and our neighbours in that overproduction wasn't helping us.

[chaffmeister]

Tower. You're up. Great. I've been answering your questions but you seem to have missed mine. So I'll ask it again.

What is so bloody sacred about the CWB that you can't even see its shortcomings?

[tower]

adam smith. you put down the director elections as being political campaign type,,,, I'm curious about how the elections could be run without such a twisted system.

I've been to a few all candidate forums and was pleased when issues of relevance to marketing and returns to grain producers dominated the discussions.

[tower]

tom4cwb, you said that the multinationals can often make more money with the board in place,, is this compared to what they could and would do without the board in place? and how would you prove something like that.

what are the foundation problems in the wheat board that you speak of?

[tower]

chaffmeister, I get the feeling that you have a set of beliefs, and that there are trigger words that when you see them require you to miss anything else that is said, whether you percieve it as positive or negative. I feel like I should let you know that when you attack me you do no harm to the cwb but I don't know if you do read responses or your own evidence which I havbe seen you put forward.

[chaffmeister]

In case TOM4CWB isn't reading this, I can answer that last one.

FACT: Real life data shows that the grain companies (not always multinationals by the way) make more handling CWB grains than they do on non-CWB grains, like canola. Source is the Federal Grain Monitor Report - available on line at http://www.quorumcorp.net/reports.html

Competition for non-CWB grains drives costs down - not so for CWB grains because the system doesn't foster competition quite the same way.

There's a saying in the grain handling business - "You don't build elevators without CWB elevations."