Hustle Hustle Lots of bills to pay.

[parsley]

According to the CWB's website,he Board was, and continues to be, an bottomless money pool, so you'd better keep working hard in order to keep up with all the projects you are are now paying for and for those schemes in the planning you will inevitably be expected to pay for.

This is what the CWB tells us:

1." The CWB is a founding member, the sole industry funding provider of the start-up capital for malting, brewing and lab equipment, and the most active user of the Canadian Malting Barley Technical Centre (CMBTC). "

Maltsters needs capital, right? Con-agra and Cargill need your money. Brewers need money, right?

2. "The CWB also founded and continues to provide nearly all of the industry funding to the Canadian International Grains Institute (CIGI)."

Will the expenses will go down this year...whaddya think?

3. CWB’s Weather and Crop Surveillance Department

4.The Western Grains Research Foundation "check-off is collected and provided to WGRF at zero administrative cost."

Huh? An organization can collet a checkoff with ZERO expenses? Read it again.

Yup.

They think you're stupid.

5."The CWB invests significant resources to estimate as precisely as possible barley production, supply, demand and quality in all producing, exporting and importing countries."

I'm too scared to ask the CWB to define "significant resources."

6. " The CWB has worked closely with exporters and maltsters to promote and sell Canadian malting barley to SABMiller."

Do you think the word "closely" is synonymous with "all the treats are on me"?

7. "Encouraging domestic “value-added,” particularly for malting and food barley processing, is a top priority. For this reason, the CWB has worked with Canadian maltsters and brewers to ensure supplies along with fair and consistent pricing."

Wow.
Is the word "encouraging" another word for 'selling your grain cheap'?

[silverback]

So much money spent.


So little vision.

[parsley]

The CWB website claims it is a myth that the "Canadian Wheat Board is a government agency."


Huh?

National licensing is a legislated Government function. So is regional marketing. The CWB is bound by legislation! Why does the CWB not tell the truth?

If you flip over to a different page on their website, all of a sudden, the CWB claims:

1. "safety with an excellent credit quality and guarantee from the Government of Canada"unquote

Does the Government of Canada guarantee Viterra? Nope. Pioneer? Nope.

2. "The CWB has a direct, unconditional guarantee on its debt from the Government of Canada."unquote

Would the Government be handing out credit guarantees like this UNLESS THE CWB IS RULED LEGISLATIVELY?

Nope

The CWB is indeed a Government-mandated licensing and marketing agency.

Putting out information that is not correct is not only costly but it is bad business. And ultimately, farmers pay for bad business.

Vote during the upcoming elections.

Vote for people who won't put up with the CWB playing with the truth.

Parsley