CWB has to go

[Burbert]

I won't give you guys one single penny, to fight the CWB. Marketeers have lots, and lots of cash, they should be happy to spend it, trying to crush the CWB. What is with all the borg, smorg? Is some of you's lost in space or just being silly?

[Fransisco]

You know, the Board is costing us more than that buck a bushel right now. Those US prices are basically off the combine spot prices. You deliver now and you get paid now. That's not the case with the fixed price contract.

To be fair we should be comparing the US winterwheat spot price with our non board feed prices, because if we need cash or room now that is our only option.

So while the yanks can get pretty much $8 we are stuck with more like $6 thanks to the CWB Berlin Wall around Western Canada.

The Board is costing us $2 a bushel not just $1.

[ProFarmer]

Burbert you must farm under a rock with a horse and binder if you cannot see that the CWB is screwing us again this year.What do you farm 10 acres. If elections were held proper, we should get 1 vote for every tonne produced. This would get rid of a bunch of back seat CWB supporters.

[Burbert]

The truth, the truth, I don't know if you can stand the truth. But here it is anyway. There are a whole lot of little guys/gals standing in the way of a few land barons, that want to own/control all the farms in Canada. Us small farmers are doing it, by supporting the Canadian Wheat Board while making a living without, owing it all to the company store!

[ProFarmer]

It must be cold under that little rock Maybe you should get a real job like MARKETING YOUR OWN CROPS!!!!!!!!!!!!! and don't try and live on my shirttails. You must be a socialist #%#@#@#

[Fransisco]

Funny, the last time I heard of somebody selling a crop and winding up owing money to a "company" it was the CWB. Under their fixed price contract.

[per]

I sure hope your old and near retirement Burbert.

[furrowtickler]

most old farmers own all the land they farm and have no machinery payments, not hard to make a living. Back yourself up thirty years and run todays numbers, and then tell me if you could survive with CWB grains?
Still not one logiacl response to the huge differences in prices!

[parsley]

You are spot-on, furrowtickler. The money for Board grains doesn't materialize.

Non-established farmers cannot make normal farm Mammas content living on the returns of Wheat Board grains. Nor make the farm payments. Or pay the phone bill, or pay for tuition for the kids.

And Mammas depending on having their expectations and dreams fullfilled via Wheat Board initial and final payments, are usually one of a kind...deaf, dumb, or blind. Not much of a choice for farm boys going-a-courting in 2008.

(Discounting, of course, the odd exception,.... the occassional silly one, gone head over heels, that would live in a grainery. lol)

Parsley

[jensend]

if the cwb disappears agri-ville will roll over on its back and die!