Valentine's Day Video by Farmer Derek Klingenberg - Reminds Us What Is Important.

[MBgrower]

No more farmer run companies for me... cant and wont work if farmers in control of the business. Your best bet is buy stock of ag related companies.

[tweety]

Cotton, that's just what i heard anyways.

Perhaps you could share why it didn't work.

[westernvicki]

Hensall is very successful. Google them.

[foragefarmer]

Grain farmers working together forming co-ops in Western Canada . Our forefathers had the very same idea many years ago.

Maybe we should have pay attention to what they started and created. It's all gone now.

Here we go again reinventing the wheel.

Good luck Stormin

[cottonpicken]

I suck at lots of things,just like every other human being.

The idea was to turn the cwb into a brokerage house.

[tweety]

i would think trying to do anything with the CWB would be an unmitigated disaster!

Certainly not a reflection of you cotton!

[bucket]

If they got new up or management at the cwb it might work.

[bucket]

New upper management.

I wrote it but Samsung was smarter I guess. FGDS. FFS.

[agstar77]

That train has left the station. Market freedom was meant for the RR and graincos not farmers. Time to move on and deal with reality.

[Hopalong]

Single desk supporters used to say 'if we ever lose it, we will never get it back'.
Whether they knew it or not, it was an admission that it was outdated and time to move on.
Think as time passes, support for collective and communal action will continue to decline.
Business competitive will continue to increase.
Can see new business models coming into play and likely we are better to adjust and adapt rather than resist.

[cottonpicken]

i was thinking they had a lot of things going for them like contacts,infrastructure etc,of course there would have to have been an staff restrure and voluntary sign up.

The question i have and i don't know the answer,is if we had an intermediary broker between us and the grain co's and the end use buyers would that not solve a lot of problems?

Was going to start a fresh thread discussing it.but said **** it,i don't care enough.

[wmoebis]

Interesting Cotton. What if a group in one area put together say 1500t of one grade, prot exc (on paper of course) and marketed it as a unit train to different Co's.

[MBgrower]

Wboeis, the graicos would catch on fast, theyd likely get together and blackball the group.