China to buy or lease farm land...

[parsley]

cp, are you training concubines instead of seeding?lol

Parsley

[TOM4CWB]

Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
Sun Tzu

Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.
Sun Tzu

[Vader]

"taking whole"

[parsley]

Vader,

Sun Tzu's addage about knowing yourself and knowing your enemy is what has caused the Wheat Board lifeblood of support to slowly drain away.

Knowing the CWB: Making farmers comply through force.

Knowing Farmers: They want co-operations and choice. Who in their right mind doesn't?


Parsley

PS Vader,




Sun Tzu advised: In practical marketing, the best thing is to steal the competitors market intact; to do negative marketing and create resentment is not so good.

Sun Tzu probably gave the CWB the idea to "steal" all the customers from organic farmers,(peeping at the names on the export licenses) and then run them out of business through regulation....deny, deny deny liceses.

To steal "the whole" as you so nicely reminded us Vader.

When is the CWB going to begin to deny export license buybacks to organic applicants, so the CWB doens't have to compete against the farmer?

New crop year B of D motion , did you say?

Not surprised.

Parsley

[bucket]

Foreign ownership does not just happen. Some board has to approve the deal.

Lets look at IPSCO for an example. Canadian mom and dad steel plant turned into one of the most successful steel co. in North America. At the time of its disposal to the Swedes it was being run by David Sutherland. He was born in Moose Jaw, sask. Quite a nice fellow until he decided he could make alot of money for himself by negotiating a selling price instead of continuing to expand and grow like his predecessors did. Now its owned by the Russians.

The point of the dribble is that its the Canadian board of directors that sit on these companies that sell out not the shareholders (they are technically sheep). Once someone starts the wheel rolling its hard to stop.

Here's another example. Apparently the story goes that one of the latest farmer of the year fellows sells his 5 generation farm to an investment company ( thinking of himself he puts lots of money in his pocket) with the agreement to lease it back. The investment co. allows him to do that until they see a major capital gain and sell the land. Poof, the farmer of the year is no longer a farmer. Good example - not likely.

Its simple - greed will sell out our farmland and the likes of Vader will be lining his pocket championing the cause - typical Liberal running the cwb. (Actually I believe tthat Stewie Wells is running the cwb now with all this investment in organics but thats another thread.)

[cottonpicken]

Funny you picked that.
I refuse to work more than 110 hours a week at anything-except training concubines!

Sun tzu is required reading of all asian business men.

If we are in the middle of economic war it may be time to push the panic button."If" that is.

[cottonpicken]

Oh ya 20% done in southeast sk.
NO standing water,dry everywhere.
Window to seed small seeds deteriorating.

[parsley]

Sun tzu certainly looked at tackling conflict by mainly using three ways:

1. Inaction..sometimes doing nothing works, and at the very least bides time.

The CWB has not addressed any concerns. They could have easily given 200,000 tonne exemption from the pools by simpling issuing the licenses. Or they could have issued licenses for all feed grains, just as they do for the feed mills, only doing it for farmers.

Instead, they did nothing, hoping voices for change would blow away.


What disgusting planning for the future of the family farm.

Parsley

[parsley]

Sun tzu dealt with conflict through ongoing resistance.

So does the CWB. If they had their way, farmers would still be forced to write the amount of flour they wabnted to get gristed in the front of their permit books!

What complete nerve!

Communist China tactics, for sure.

The CWB resists pasta growers efforts, resists maltsters efforts, resists brewers efforts, resists organics efforts to be able to bypass having to go through the CWB, resists staff reduction, resists conventional growers requests to get high prices in 08, resists any kind of change.

Show me one CWB policy change that has not been made in the interest of self-preservation, and I'll show you a little white ritter.

Parsley

[parsley]

The third pillar of Sun tzu was organized opposition.

It works effectively for the CWB because they use farmers money to fight the farmers.


Did anyone recieve the 4 page circular put out by Friends of the CWB in the mail this week?

The preface is written by Terry Boehm who lives near Colonsay, Saskatchewan.

He wants the CWB to continue as is, but offers nothing in the way of suggestions to IMPROVE what IS.


He obviously would not grow canola and flax if his wheat and barley prices were as lucrative as the CWB claims they are.

He wants MORE AND MORE OF THE visionless SAME.

He/FOTCWB (Friends of the CWB)does not seem to view corporations, or other farmer associations, or other fellow farmers, or the Governments in the DA, as players he can work with.

He/FOTCWB appears to consider them as enemies.Nice way to get me onside. Wonder how he proposed.


He/FOTCWB seems to consider everyone an enemy who does not agree with his/FOTCWB political stance...and it is this....."a single desk to make more money or rot in jail."


What kind of vision is this for young farmers looking at agriculture?

This is the FOTCWB's message to young people:

1. Hate the grain companies who want to buy what you grow.

2. The state owns what you grow.

3. Any tactic is acceptable as long as the single desk is kept intact.

4. One group of farmers at any moment can be deemed more important by CWB gloppers in backrooms, than another group of farmers.

5. Stealing out of one pooling account to makle another pooling account appear more viable is fine.


6. Giving privileges to organics is fine, tommorow it might be Mennonites.


7.More staff is needed for less grain sold.


8. Keeping employees in the city of Winnipeg is much more important than keeping farmers on farms.


9. Ignore what farmers voted.

10. Change the Code of Conduct for any single desk member, at any give moment so that they can attend Liberal fundaiser, or so they can be a nominated candidate without resigning even though there is a perceived conflictt of interest.


10 good reasons why young-start farmers in the Designated Area will continue to decline.

And Boehm advocates more of the same.



Inaction, ongoing resistance, organizes opposition. For what?

Yup. You got it Pontiac.

More of the same.


Parsley

[Kodiak]

Boehm, Larson, and the rest of the extreme leftists the "friends" trot out to utter quotable quotes of course are only the 'farmer front' of the Friends of the CWB.

Let's not forget the people running the outfit are ex-CWB employees.

Roehle, Bruin, and others - probably Measner and Allen too - are the operatives behind the scenes. Are they accountable to farmers? Are they acting in the interest of farmers forced to deal with the CWB?

Friends of the CWB? Probably. Friends of farmers? Not a chance.