Throwing your hat in the CWB Director-Ring?

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cwbelection.com


CWB 2008 election of directors officially started Monday.

Managed by chartered accounting and business advisory firm Meyers Norris Penny LLP, will accept director nominations until 5 p.m. through Oct. 20. Ian Craven is MNP's election manager.


For 2008, producers will elect a member from each of Districts 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10, to a four-year-term expiring December 2012.

To become a candidate, a person must be a Canadian citizen 18 years or older as of the nomination filing date.

A person must be named in a CWB permit book as an actual producer or be a shareholder in a corporation, a member of a co-operative or a partner in a partnership that is named as an actual producer.

A person may become a candidate in an electoral district in which he or she is registered as an actual producer or in an adjacent electoral district.


cwbelection.com

Toll-free election info line at 1-877-500-0795.

Questions may also be e-mailed to: questions@cwbelection.com

Note these:

Nov. 14 - deadline for application to vote at 4 p.m.

Nov. 28 - end of election period and ballot postmark deadline

Dec. 7 - election results announced

Dec. 31 - elected directors take office.



Parsley

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Bucket,


Did you read this?

Parsley

[bucket]

I called MNP last week to get the package but they could not send it out because the call had not been made. I will call in this week.

I also asked if they were going to disqualify flaman but the guy I talked to could not comment.

The jury is still out if I am going to run. My kids are 8 and 6. I got maybe three good lake days with them this summer. To sit with arrogant jokers or spend time with the kids. If I run I would consider it taking one for the team because I have more to lose than gain. Money can't get me the time to watch my kids waterski.

And as I have said in other posts some of the people on the board are incompetent and people like that frustrate me. I have talked to most on the board and they either hang up or lull me to sleep with the promise of " that's a good idea and I will bring it up at the next board meeting". Nothing comes from all my good ideas I suggest which goes to prove they were not listening or they can't improve on the idea. Either way its arrogant incompetence.

[Fransisco]

Good point about spending time with your kids. But if they decide to farm wouldn't it be nice if they could sell their own grain they way you can't right now?

Sometimes one generation has to pick the rocks out of the field so the next can get on with farming the land instead of constantly fixing the machinery that gets busted up going through the rocks.

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In today's Saskatoon StarPhoenix, there is a special written by non other than CWB Chairman Larry Hill

The heading is
"Farmer control of wheat board too vital to risk"

Hill wants to work readers up into a lather about third party spending. He concludes with this message:

"The CWB board of directors and the federal government both are entrusted to oversee and protect the electoral process and the principle of farmer control that underpins it. We must both do all that we can to live up to farmers' trust and ensure fairness and neutrality exists and is perceived to exist."

PERCEIVED, huh?


Interesting word.

He needs a word processor on his tongue though, because "perceived" slides off his Board-coated tongue a little too glibly.

How about the PERCEIVED participation of a certain Mr. Liberal 2008 Candidate continuing to sit at the CWB Board table voting on farmer issues?

How does his "neutrality" sit with all the CWB's "perceived" thick-in-the-head farmers?


Perceived has got to be the dumbest Over-the Hill comment cranked out by the CWB media-writers yet.


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I just cannot resist asking:

How does CWB Chairman Larry Hill "perceive" the Elected 2008 Liberal Candidate sitting at every CWB Board of Director's meeting?

What would the body language be? LOL Now that's one for a sharp eye to study. LOL

Do the rest of the CWB Directors have to flash their "perceived"
LPC membership card to actually sit next to..... (OMG this is thrilling) any manicured "Candidate" at the board table?

Is Chatenay relegated to the hallway?

Politics at its' Board table finest.
Parsley

[btjadenlepp]

bucket, whoever you are, all i can say from my limited experience with this process is, if you think already that having an intelligent and productive discussion/debate is going to be difficult, dial down your expectations about ten-fold.

[parsley]

Solution?

Lipstick.

lol


Parsley

[bucket]

You see - that is the problem. I am a mechanical engineering technologist. I farm because I like the lifestyle and I work because it pays the bills and its more interesting than going to the coffe shop.

I expect to accomplish something if I run and to date it has been very hard to convince myself that I would by working with the likes of flaman or comrade kyle. When I leave a job, at lets say ipsco, I know that I have accomplished something worthwhile. Makes it worth the time and effort. To sit with a bunch in winnipeg and tolerate people like d. allen I think I would rather be with my kids. At least they listen and learn.

[btjadenlepp]

your kids listen to you? hat's off. they must be girls. my 5-yr-old son starts kindergarten tomorrow, sniff.

but just because our kids are precious doesn't mean having to sacrifice every interesting opportunity that comes along until they move out, does it?

if you're already engaged in the debate, at the coffee-shop level lets say, that says something about your interests.

would throwing your hat in the ring really take away from time you would otherwise be spending not thinking and talking about marketing, or would it perhaps improve the quality of that time? in addition to the perdiem etc., there are many insights to be gained by sitting at the board table i would think. and who knows who is going to be running that place in 3 months??? these are interesting times indeed.

p.s. deanna allen doesn't work at the board any longer. however she taught some tricks to the communications department that have stuck.

[bucket]

I know deanna is gone but the people that were around her are the same arrogant bunch. I remind them as often as I can that they work for me not the other way around. As a director I would say there there would be alot of dead weight to be trimmed.

Then I would say if the cwb doesn't accept our grain - a farmer could do what he pleases with it and free export licences. Most of our grain is going south from herbert and we get none of the premium.

Here is another idea. If they give premiums for being in the churchill catchment area why not give premiums for being in the US catchment area?

Any comments?

If a farmer hauls to a mill there will be no rail freight to Vancouver and elevation is the mills expense.

If a farmer finds his own market - free export licences. Does not matter what part of the word he finds them in. His research, his profit , his loss.

Those should be some ideas that should be able to be implemented - right? Told them to mcreary years ago.

[btjadenlepp]

all good ideas imho. your us/churhchill comparison is sound. should be a regular backoff to a net local price wherever a farmer finds a buyer, cwb or otherwise.

www.farmlinksolutions.ca

[btjadenlepp]

wheat, peas, sunflowers, canola, oats or whatever, what's the diff?

[parsley]

btjadenlepp,
huh?

You want the CWB as a buyer of peas, sunflowers, canola, oats?

Parsley

[bduke]

I understand Brenda to be asking why wheat freight should be based differently than oats, canola, flax, etc.

The logic of having no freight or handling charges when hauling to flour mills or malt plants has long been suggested. Pooling sanctity tends to prevail.

The CWB did, and may still have an FAF...Freight Adjustment Factor....that increased the price of milling wheat in Southern Manitoba to reflect the lower cost of freight to the Minneapolis mills. If my memory is correct I think the CWB considered the proportions of wheats i.e. grades and proteins and the markets they filled, then used a pro rata adjustment. It seems the Manitoba catchment area could fill the Minneapolis market....but this was at least 10 years ago.....Bill