CWB like a SCHOOL House HALLWAY BULLY!

[charliep]

Will note the following quotes from this week's Western Producer (Page 6 May 8). Quote:

"No organization watn to be in the position of having to claw back money from it customers.."

Serious consideration was given to revising the payment terms so this won't happen again, but the board decided to stick with the current contracts because the circumstances that lead to the payment were so unusual.

We (NOT SURE OPERATIONS SIDE OR THE CWB BOARD OF DIRECTORS - MAYBE THEY ARE THE SAME TONGUE IN CHEEK) just don't think the cost-benefit is there to go through designing and implementing a whole new payment system for something that may never happpen again". End quote.

Interesting comment on how the CWB (perhaps both Board of Directors and Opeerations) view operational risk around the programs and their ability to modify behavior/contract terms to satisfy the needs of changing circumstances. How many grain companies would have a contract problem like this and not modify their behavior/processes to rectify the problem.

Changes need to be made to the FPC on whole bunch of levels but there seems to be no willingness to do it.

[disker]

Hi,
Just got a letter from the Cwb telling me that they deducted some of the FPC money that they claim I owe off of an EPO on some barley that I delivered. I have a disagreement with them on the FPC money owing because I believe the grain was delivered before the initial price increase and therefore before the inital exceeded my FPC but I am having trouble getting clarification of this. In the meantime they deducted money from my EOP on feed barley to offset FPC on wheat. This is going to be an accounting and record keeping nightmare because if there are any diputes who do you call and get an answer or action from?
Curt