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    #13
    Originally posted by northfarmer View Post
    ............that was for a long time hampered by a state trading agency (cwb) that produced an industry dominated by a few significant players (5 guys in Wpg) lol.
    I believe that's false - the grain industry was dominated by the same families before the CWB came into existence that dominate today. Same families that control the US grain sector to a large extent too. Can't blame this one on the CWB.

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      #14
      Strange, not one comment on the fact for decades the grain handling system on the prairies was totally dominated by.......farmer controlled companies and co-ops....

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        #15
        Originally posted by grassfarmer View Post
        I believe that's false - the grain industry was dominated by the same families before the CWB came into existence that dominate today. Same families that control the US grain sector to a large extent too. Can't blame this one on the CWB.
        Fair comment. Imo they contributed did not cause. I stand corrected.

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          #16
          101.....I think they lost vision of the group of people who created them and they were to serve.

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            #17
            The "they" were farmers, who likely should have never been installed into management. The farmer owners should have hired the best in the business and ran it like a business.

            The very same outcome awaits any co-op who tries doing it the same way again.

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              #18
              Originally posted by farming101 View Post
              The "they" were farmers, who likely should have never been installed into management. The farmer owners should have hired the best in the business and ran it like a business.

              The very same outcome awaits any co-op who tries doing it the same way again.
              Well then, was it the diversification and expansion? There were non farmer directors sitting at the board table.

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                #19
                Looking back (20/20 vision) it was probably no one thing and it's not worth blaming any one in particular.

                It just wasn't run as a lean mean business.

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                  #20
                  Why doesn't coop look to be the price esters for ag inputs? Grass roots, farmer interests, no its shareholders, and rightly so

                  Why hasn't federated been aquisitioned by Loblaws, etc?

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