Why do we need any wheat board at all?

[parsley]

"some people don't have the knowledge or skill set to properly market their produce" Huh?

And who determined this proclamation-revelation ?Too much listening to Ian White?


........that statement sounds as if it's out of the mouth of the Board itself.


I've said it before and I'll say it again...I've never met a farmer who didn't know how to sell his old bull.

I've never met a farmer who didn't know how to sell his canola or FIND OUT.

I've never met a farmer who didn't know how to sell his flax or FIND OUT.


..who didn't know how to sell his lentils or FIND OUT.


..who didn't know how to sell his canary seed or FIND OUT.

Scheez.

I have faith in farmers to find out.

And exactly how does one determine who is a competent marketer and who is not?
Fertilize them with self-doubt?

I find farmers are the most amazing members of any industrial sector at learning new skill sets. Sophisticated machinery. Computers. GPS. Technology. Farmers live and absorb farming. They read. Attend sessions. Trade information. They go to the neighbors to "Try it out".

The one thing that farmers have been told over and over is that they cannot market wheat and barley because they have no skills. No knowledge.

Farmsector-deprecating attacks do not serve farmers.

I have little patience for self-serving propoganda that implies farmers are stupid and incompetent, while the CWB, as is, or revised,or overhauled, is the wheat and barley medicine man.


Parsley

[TOM4CWB]

just_wondering;

Your 'Local CO-OP' will do many times better marketing your grain... than the CWB ever did!

WHY?

Because the CWB 'single desk' philosophy is that; If the CWB sells it... it obtained a profit.

How sick... stupid... and offensive the CWB 'single desk' mentality is.

1. Hard work... will help us to learn much... and

2. If we are willing to learn from our experiences... that we are disappointed in the results that happened (should be normal 'self improvement' response)... we can build personal relationships that could result in a share and prosperity creation in value chain participation.

Even if those we have trusted... rip us off... we can learn from the experience... and prepare to prevent the same mistake the second time around! "First time shame on you... second time shame on me"!

Getting 'something for nothing' is a 'single desk' fantasy... that the real world never delivers!

Being at the "right place"... at the "right time"...
is NOT Luck...
It is the result of hard work and discipline... contrary to anything the CWB may spew!

This is why CWB buybacks are so offensive to so many!



If the CWB would get its collective head out of the sand/clouds... and do a decent days work for their wages...

WITH INTEGRETY and RESPECT for 'Designated Area' Growers...

instead of using the 'single desk' crutch/theory to justify what they have done...

(WHich has been to steal others work and discipline... which they believe the 'single desk' entitles them to...)


perhaps then they would be worth having as a "designated area' growers marketing partner!

INFORMA got it right... the AB Gov did us all a big service in enough discipline to get this work done!

IT IS HIGH TIME to Take the hand cuffs off 'Designated Area" grain growers... and allow innovation and hard work decide who is the 'best marketer'!!!

SHAME on CWB Managers/Directors... to force me into this stern lecture... they all SHOULD know better!

I am NOT Perfect... not by any stretch...

HOWEVER

CWB 'single desk' theft ...from... and lack of respect ...for... those they are supposed to serve ("designated area" growers)... MUST STOP.

[TOM4CWB]

“Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.”

Milton Friedman

"FEAR OF SPEECH
The playing field is levelled a bit for Wheat Board director elections

Last week the government served notice of a regulatory change in the regulations under the Canadian Wheat Board Act removing the $10,000 spending restriction... The proposal was duly published in Canada Gazette and, as required by law, is open for public comment until Sept. 1....
The Wheat Board said it would make a submission opposing the change but suggesting that candidates be allowed to spend more.

The whiners were out at once. The National Farmers 'Union' said there will be “unlimited propaganda” against the single desk monopoly....the change merely levels the playing field, which as been badly tilted since the election procedure began in 1998. The Board itself is prohibited from openly supporting any candidate financially, but it loses no opportunity during the election period, as during all other times, to keep itself in front of voting farmers."
Morris W. Dorosh Agriweek Aug 11/08 edition

[wilagro]

Tom: The government is playing "dirty pool" again and having been defeated twice by the courts are now trying to pull a "shady". Talk about a lack of credibility and ethical behaviour...another fine example.

[just_wondering]

re: "some people don't have the knowledge or skill set to properly market their produce"
I'll put it this way if you gave me 10,000 tonnes of grain and and for example chaffmeister or Brenda lepp I would bet 75 times out of 100 they would out market me. (though I bet I'm a better at agronomy) sometimes I would make different choices an sometimes they would turn out to be better choices.
I am not trying to put fear into peoples minds or imply that farmers are stupid just that every one goes through a different matrix in determining actions.
I am not an agriculture economist and I play a very poor one on the Internet.
sometimes part of being a business person is hiring out the skill set that you lack, and realizing where you could use some help.
That's where I see the new NON-single desk CWB providing skills to those who might need them.
Hell If I had it my way there would be a waiting list to acquire their services, and if they don't provide value close it down.

[TOM4CWB]

Wilagro,

So the CWB directors having billions at their 'single desk' disposal... to stack the media with pro-single desk propaganda... allowing third parties the same opportunity to spend their own funds... is 'dirty pool'?... a portion of these funds are my families funds... by the way...

You certainly have a very strange sense of 'Justice"!

So only the CWB has the right... to talk/spend/advertise about the 'single desk'?

[freewheat]

We don't. Period. Need the friggin' Western wheat board I mean. I refuse to grow wheat until we have freedom. it sickens me how they cost me money, and not just on board grains either.

[TOM4CWB]

Freewheat;

WHEN the CWB rips us off... then every other grain co. knows they can do it as well.

Thank goodness there is a CWB election comming... most folks think the CWB won't be able to continue as the bunch of bandit theives...they have become... for much longer!

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[freewheat]

Here is how I feel the cwb costs me money on my non-board crops; When I am waiting for the famous contract calls, and they never come, i am forced to do something, especially if I already have an advance etc... so I dump some canola, oats, peas, etc, at a time that is not usually of my planned choosing, so I miss marketing my non-board grains as well as I believe I could. Now, having no board grain like this year, I can see that my cash flow will be much more predictable, bankable, and manageable. I look forward to it. I no longer will have a quarter of my crop sitting there waiting to get called 20 % at a time. My banker loves me now!

[parsley]

jw

Glad you clarified thay you haven't been struck with "Board glow" shining out the message that DA farmers are dullards who need someone to market their wheat and barley for them.

Quite a different view from having a bad hair day combined with a bad marketing day, and making the decision to call 911WHEAT.

Messages getting even 'slightly' mixed cause pause.

Parsley