perplexed

[bucket]

And there in lies the problem, the arrogant people that work their.

Ward, Gord and their peons should have been turfed years ago.

Flaten used to take family vacations for a year and show off pictures at producer meetings.

Gust, remember the one in Davidson a few years back.

[Burbert]

Gobermonts lie to the people, each and
every time. The Comedian gobermont
seized the farmer run marketing bored
from framers, hence framers will no
longer deal with it. It was all planned
to fail, and it is failing. Heil
Harper, f&*kk Gag Minister Ritz!!!!!!!!
Scum of the earth, ya see in Comedia a
Gag Minister has to first of all be a
failed framer, who hates other framers
to qualify to be Gag Minister......

[blackpowder]

perhaps what's happening to the cwb is what happens when you try to freeze time. Or stop tectonic shift. Forces great enough to oppose each other for a long enuf time schism violently.
It's support was based in ideology only. Support for what was an anachronism.
Had the political experiment been allowed to change in step with the industry, there would have been a natural evolution and maybe something viable in business today.
Instead you have a block of ice that can't exist in present form. A marriage by law only, for 35 years.
Proof that there is no standing still, only movement. Either forward or back.
Like the Southern 'Lost Cause' writers, we have Burbert clinging to his white sheet and pointed hat. Sadly, he's incapable of anything close to that intelligent or understandable. His usefullness as a kapo is over.

[Choice2U]

The CWB played a dangerous game when they had complete control. They held grain handlers at ransom depending on the issue until they fell in line, they pitted grain handlers against rail companies, they pitted grain handler against grain handler, hated producer cars and then loved them when it suited their purpose, they forced farmers to sell their grain to them even as the tide shifted from frustration to disgust. The system was built on "fall in line or else" rather than the concept of win-win. Companies and farmers that got their eyes poked don't forget so I guess the chickens are coming home to roost.

[malleefarmer]

guess massive difference was awb is and
was at the time a private company
farmers were along with others
shareholders so they we duty bound to
continue on.
cwb has no such obligation corporately
or morally.

seems they will just die a slow death
when they need no to, if they think
outside the square they could become
some sort of a massive brokerage firm or
clearing house for grain for want of a
better term.

many farmers here said at the time they
would never deal with awb blah blah blah
funny days when awb are top price he
loud mouthed buffons are willing sellers
to them.

[wilagro]

malleefarmer: Well we hate to see you so perplexed, but the simple truth is that our current CWB which isn't the old CWB and is run ENTIRELY by government employees and MANAGED and counseled by a government APPOINTED Board of Directors. There is NO farmer input allowed whatsoever. That would never do.

It operates with the pleasure of the Minister of Agriculture and is programmed to be either sold or shut down within the next five years.

It is a shadow of its former self and like Superman in the presence of kryptonite has no strength or power to do anything like it once did. A hollow shell waiting for someone to put it out of its misery.

No wonder farmers won't support it fully, its merely a token left in the shambles of ever changing Agricultural Policy of our Conservative government.

[rhoff]

Farmer input is allowed-It's called tonnage. But it's
not mandated by law which is the CWB's biggest
problem. So be it.

[vvalk]

Wilagro. WOW! Drink the koolaid much?

[blackpowder]

some days willy, you just blow my hair back.

[wilagro]

blackpowder: And what part of what I posted do you disagree with?

I thought it pretty well described the reality of the situation.