The CWB 'Paradox'

[Burbert]

Who cares about people? Those small Comedian farms were owned and operated by people and families. Who cares? Farming is and should be driven and ruled by the market, in other words GREED! The bottom line is all that counts. GREED is good. One day when all the land in Comedia is owned and operated by a dozen or so land barons, we'll truly live in utopi or should that read dopia????

[charliep]

Perhaps what every farmers goal should be is to operate a profitable business consist with personal values and goals. Everyday the idea is to capture opportunities that add value to bottom line. If farmers are empowered to do this via their own creativity and initiative, I suspect the individual farm business (be it an individual family, a partnership or a corporation) will be around for long time. The size of this operation will change - no longer a world of wd9 tractors (sorry wd9) pulling a 12 foot drill on summerfallow but a continuous cropping operation pulling 40 plus feed of one pass/low disturbance seeding equipment pulled with a 300 hp tractor (hopefully this makes - an economist in an ivory tower). Maybe the way wheat and barley are marketed has to change to reflect this reality.

[TOM4CWB]

Burbert,

I assume your tounge in cheek 'thrashing' was about our 'Eskimo''greed'...

Instead the reality is./.. of real farm families working day and night to bring in a healthy crop and pay our many bills... growing this good high quality food for a hungry world.

I do not know of one farm... where your 'greed' attitude is the primary reason they grow food.

I believe the same to be true of folks who work for us at the CWB.

God bless them... I hope they ALL have a great weekend!!!