What Are You Doing At Seeding Time

[agstar77]

This wasn't about business, this was about greed. Whether you like it or not , existing rules are the law. If they are changed and some body doesn't like them at what point is it right to break them? If breaking the rules suits you ,it's okay, but what happens if it goes against you? Are you still okay with breaking the rules. If you don't like the rules go see your buddy Ritz and have them changed. I'll abide by whatever decision is made, whether I agree with it or not. We all agree on a level playing field. Some seedgrowers are tipping the field. What about that mill in N.D. that wouldn't take Canadian grain? Do you think they will be pleased when they find out they are milling bootlegged grain from Canada? What kind of repercussions will that have? Country of origin labeling for grain? Maybe an import ban or tariff? This could have far more devestating effects than one seedgrower getting a windfall! The U.S. grain market could be virtually closed to everyone except accredited exporters.

[AdamSmith]

Did you ever think for one moment Agstar, that these rules, as you call them, are what's to blame here?

Is this what we're headed for in western Canada? Is this the industry you desire?

An industry where the wheat the gestapo are out intimidating and arresting people?

The problem Agstar is not that someone fudged the rules, the problem is the rules are so constricting, and so oppressive that the cwb forces otherwise honest hard working people to do things that they otherwise wouldn't do.

Do you think ND would have their stupid rules in place if it wasn't for the cwb and their stupid rules?

No end use cert. for canola, peas, oats etc.

How far are you prepared to go in your attempt to destroy individual initiative? How far are you prepared to go in order to bring the wheat and barley industry to it's knees to where it is of no use to anyone?

What others identify as initiative you label it as greed and do your best to beat it to a pulp.

In a nutshell Agstar you and your kind are the creators of this mess and unfortunatly you have zero clue how to clean it up.

[agstar77]

I said if you don't like the rules ,get your buddy Ritz to change them. You call it iniative I call it theft from every farmer in the Pool account whether you like it or not. Why there isn't the same problem with other crops? Because we don't compete directly for market share in other crops. If canola was grown more widely in the U.S. , we would have the same conflict as wheat.

[Fransisco]

There you have it, when you sell your own grain, according to agstar, you are stealing it from him.

What an absolutely inverted and perverse view of justice.

[agstar77]

Fran, you have no idea what justice really is. The seedgrower wasn't even selling his own grain, just acting as a grain merchant and making a tiny little half mill in the process. Yeah , Farmers For Just Me.

[AdamSmith]

Agstar, you said he bought it from the locals for $16, right?

Pretty good marketing on the locals side.

Let's see $9.25, 9 months from now or $16 today.

Decisions, decisions, decisions.

Maybe if the cwb could have given a competitive offer the grain might have went to the castro club.

Oh, but then you wouldn't have gotten your cut eh! agstar. Your cut for doing NOTHING.

Looks like everyone did quite fine except those who feel they are entitled to other peoples property and other peoples money.

Awe, I feel so bad! NOT

[craig]

Agstar
No body told me that part of my job farming was to subsidize my neighbors. Now that I have been enlightened I will be lowering the value of what I sell to my feed customers by 10 to 20%. While I live in oil rich Alberta, I haven't had the luxury of making so much money that I've had lots to share around.When I have I have chosen to support community and charity. Can't figure out where that term greed keeps coming up in farming. Thought we were just trying to make a living.

[AdamSmith]

Oh well, off to do something rewarding for a few days, like enjoying life.

I'll check back in on Sunday and see if Hermann Goering aka Agstar77 put his jackboots on and sent out his brownshirts to arrest the enemies of the state.

[cottonpicken]

Thats the pot calling the kettle black with entire threads being deleted.

[agstar77]

Censorship is alive and well, Orwell was right , just got the date wrong.