How can you spot a quota-lover?

[highwayman]

Willy grow
Save your arrogance toward the younger farmers on this forum. With 30 years of filling out a permit book one thing that I learned quite quickly is that the quota system never worked for our farm when we were 1000 acres or when we were 7500 acres. It did a good job of supporting the grain bin industry as we always had to carry over a ridiculous amount of grain because we never would have enough quota space to market it all. Many missed opportunities were the result of this system at a cost we will never be able to measure. Maybe we were guilty of producing more than our fair share in your eyes and wanting to much of the pie by maximizing our returns on our investment to the best of our ability. If that is what the likes of you consider selfish and self centered, then tar and feather me because that is what farmers have been doing for gernerations. That fact that you hold a fellow agricultural producer in contempt for looking after his bottom line in a reasonable manner says a lot about your character or rather a lack there of. If you really hate those that want to be profitable in agriculture and control their own future
than I suggest you take a good look in the mirror and ask yourself just who really is just about me. To the rest of you that do speak with some level of intelligence, I apoligize for the rant. Just have had enough of the socialistic bull that is being spewed on this site.

[bucket]

Stubblejumper

Apparently you missed what I said. After the cwb gave my grain away I had to go make money to pay my bills and my mortgages. You see since I couldn't haul in what should have been 25 dollar durum and I couldn't haul it when I wanted to, the people I owe money to wanted some.

I don't think this really matters but since all you board supporters just count your neighbors bins to figure if you should call revenue canada, my new drill just rolled over 8300 acres and thats why i work off the farm - too make life better. Too bad the cwb couldn't help some of us in that regard. You asked if I was a big operator. You can judge. I have been asked to farm more next year. Not bragging either but I was taught not to ask or ignorantly imply the size of one's farm or herd size. I won't ask your farm size, I don't care and its not relevant. Pissing matches and circle jerks are for people like you.

[parsley]

bucket,

Just got home.

I am talikng about PRODUCTION quotas.And by the way, I admire your head down, ass up work ethic. It will pay off.

Highwayman, I hid under the table after I read your rant.LOL I think you're getting the hang of it. Now, if you'd REALLY get annoyed with the CWB....


Parsley

[bucket]

Parsley

Here is the problem. Let mother nature throw a zinger like what happened in Iowa, couple that with rising demand and a hungry world, and I think you can throw quotas out the window.

IMHO I just don't think they work in grain production. Milk, yes, but that's a factory and the weather has less impact on production.

[parsley]

Tell it to Larry Hill et al, not me! This is his wish list:

"The bottom line, in economic terms, is that there is real benefit to having orderly marketing structures for all sorts of agricultural products."

Parsley

[furrowtickler]

How can can you spot a borg supporter? --- Go to the zoo and find the turtle cage, or an ostrage pen. They are either 80 years old or their head is in the sand!