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[gustgd]

In district 6 to vote for Marketing choice please vote for
Gerrid Gust #1
Wayne Bacon #2
and leave all other choices blank
Thank you for your support

[parsley]

I enjoyed that. Good Luck. Pars

[Hopperbin]

Was exactly my pick, thanks for running.

[parsley]

Hopper, you should be running, too. Pars

[Hopperbin]

Gust is clear when asked what his vision is for the Canadian Wheat Board.

“I want a CWB that will become the marketing arm of choice for all farmers, yet not have farmers be compelled by law to do business with us if they don’t wish “I feel strongly about building a voluntary CWB that can earn the business of farmers in a competitive marketplace.

Gust has a keen interest in improving board governance, and believes his board experience will serve him well as a director of the CWB. His experiences of lobbying both federally and provincially as well as presenting to various farm audiences have given Gerrid the knowledge and back ground to stay on course, and not change his position once around the board table.

[gustgd]

CFIB survey results
http://www.cfib.ca/legis/alberta/agri-business.asp
Hope this helps in your decision making.

[gustgd]

Sorry I should have checked first I assumed mine would be up as I sent it in Fri.

[craig]

Response to CFIB by Gerald Pilger commenting on buybacks.
"And farmers can even grow any wheat or barley and market it to any domestic or export buyer they want to at what ever price they want to through the CWB buyback program. As your membership surely knows, there is a cost of marketing in any business and the buyback ensures all farmers share in the cost of marketing wheat and barley and for all the other services that the CWB provides; services which even growers using the buyback benefit from such as the branding programs for Canadian grain, cash advance administration, legal defense of the grain trade, grains research, etc."
Here I thought it was the government that ran the tax department.Not sure how all producers are sharing in the cost of marketing when some individual
goes out and spends his time and money to find a buyer for his grain. However the buyback ensures that all these producers step up when it's time to share the profits.

[Fransisco]

LOL- And that's how you but the "pill" in Pilinger.

[agstar77]

Mr. Gust,If farmers are not compelled to go through the CWB how will you deal with marketing gap left? If the CWB does not have resources from sales, will you have a separate checkoff for all the services it contributes to or will your buddies in Ottawa give you the money? Who would administer these funds?

[gustgd]

If your in Southern Mb. ask the candidates for district 10 if your in district 6 see the posing where I declared my candidacy it will save me the retype.
Gerrid

[Fransisco]

What kind of a "marketing gap" are you talking about agstar?

Either farmers do it themselves, use the wheat board or they use some other third party. Where do you see a potential "gap"?

[parsley]

Well, agstar, the feed mills exporting under the EMFA program presently bypass all CWB marketing and CWB pooling, so why don't you again put them through the buyback process and {X2 them} in order to recoup bypassed funds?

Sounds like the sort of task you would relish. Backdated dunners.

Parsley

[TOM4CWB]

Agstar77,

'If the CWB does not have resources from sales, will you have a separate checkoff for all the services it contributes to'

Western Grain Research Fund is VOLUNTARY... NOW with the CWB collecting it.

Strange how an Iron pipe monopoly is NOT needed to fund a co-operative farmer funded research system... if performance is decent and beneficial to growers!

Fear Mongering becomes tiresome... agstar77.

[bucket]

fransico

The gap agstar talks about is the one between his ears. Its getting wider with more of an echo the more he talks.