China to buy or lease farm land...

[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.