CAIS/AGRI-INSTABILITY MOVE

[skhadenuf]

It's definately nice to see jobs moved into the province, but unless that program gets totally worked over it's kinda like crop insurance mostly just good for the workers. Also that should have been kept totally out of crop insurance administration. Some crop insurance employees at the top were changed and more are rumoured on the way out but not enough. there is simply too much distrust between farmers and some in crop insurance built up over the past years, and this is not a good way to encourage participation. Both agriculture ministers are going to have to really start coming up with some new inovations here and not relying on getting elected simply because the other guys stunk the place out. I know both needed some time to do get familiar with things but it's time to start making some real policy changes and improvements otherwise it's starting to look like alot of hot air and bullshit.

[Burbert]

Agi-instability, new programs are all Bull. This is CAIS, crop insurance, etc. all simply renamed, the forms are even the same, requiring the same stupid paperwork and acccounting. But considering the current Ag Min, it is all one should expect, unless you want Cracker jokes, or dark humour!

[Burbert]

Agi-instability, new programs are all Bull. This is CAIS, crop insurance, etc. all simply renamed, the forms are even the same, requiring the same stupid paperwork and acccounting. But considering the current Ag Min, it is all one should expect, unless you want Cracker jokes, or dark humour!

[Ron]

Sorry but I have to agree burbert, you are right on this one. the programs are crappy, same old stuff relabeled, retrain the staff to answer the phones different.

[TOM4CWB]

Folks,

I for one... am happy we DO have some kind of safety net program.

Mailbox programs... that pay without showing need... are not fair to working folks in town who must for the most part pay for them.

We need good tax credit/input credit programs... the tax take is massive off the inputs we use in the grain sector to produce our grain.

THe more competition is curtailed... the higher the profit is for the input suppliers... and the more tax the feds and provinces rake in...
At our direct cost at the bottom of the production chain.

Balance... this is what is needed.

I have not yet seen a 'fair' political program to everyone... there are always winners and losers... hence the principal that less government... is in general good government... in balance. Who determines that balance? Politics.

Kind of like Democracy...

[skhadenuf]

You're right on the part about taking away incentives but no one or I should say 99.9% don't want a free ride at someone else's expence. But let's be realistic the old programm was a disaster it was just revealed recently what all of us know, the few that recieved payments had them taken back, it costs millions in red tape run by people who knew nothing of the industry and didn't care if they did or not. I'd like all the parties including the governing parties to stop bullshitting and tell the truth they have no intentions of designing any kind of real effective program because anything effective would cost more money and need to be focused on the needs of the producer not the pencil pushers. I think the recent bail outs for the financials and the numbers thrown around there really show just how grossly underfunded agriculture as a whole is, and what a good job politicians have done convincing even farmers themselves they're putting lots of money in when in actuality it is pathetic.