Oh Al, you seem to wallow in all the possibilities different pricing scenarios. And all the array of different programs the CWB could 'arrange ' for the poor bloody farmer.
You smell like a Wheat Board planner and I'll bet you get a Board cheque in the mail every time you fill out your per diem forms. All of your 'planning and scheming' and designing on this site tries to disguise the broader important facts that can easily get lost here:
1. Just as we don't need to simulate wheat growers, when in fact we have wheat growers, we don't need to simulate a Non-Board environment (your idea!!) when we have an open market.
2. Your claims that you are "simply looking for constructive plans that will provide more options and flexibility', keep stumbling on the obvious free market option.
3. You plead, " Let's get over it and move forward with some rational, constructive discussion', when in fact the most rational ideas have been presented in Commodity Marketing in this forum. Try reading them with your finger this time so that you can follow a little better and I'll put the key message in bold so that you can't miss it in this paragraph. THE CWB MUST GRANT LICENSES TO WESTERN FARMER APPLICANTS. According to you the Board is doing such a fine job, so only the radicals and the marginalized will apply for export licenses anyhow. A handful of ineffectuals are hardly going to make any difference.
4. Farmers should always be aware that the CWB neither follows the CWB Act that governs them nor respects the farmers that they serve. If this crown corporation refuses to follow the law, they actually show contempt towards the farmers they serve. As do the Directors. So with all these proposed programs that could come into effect, what makes you think the CWB will follow their own rules, or contracts?
Lastly, farmers are ticked off because their grain was not sold for a good price in a time of low production and high value. There is a big deficit in the pool accounts. Who in the world could, with a straight face, defend the CWB?
You smell like a Wheat Board planner and I'll bet you get a Board cheque in the mail every time you fill out your per diem forms. All of your 'planning and scheming' and designing on this site tries to disguise the broader important facts that can easily get lost here:
1. Just as we don't need to simulate wheat growers, when in fact we have wheat growers, we don't need to simulate a Non-Board environment (your idea!!) when we have an open market.
2. Your claims that you are "simply looking for constructive plans that will provide more options and flexibility', keep stumbling on the obvious free market option.
3. You plead, " Let's get over it and move forward with some rational, constructive discussion', when in fact the most rational ideas have been presented in Commodity Marketing in this forum. Try reading them with your finger this time so that you can follow a little better and I'll put the key message in bold so that you can't miss it in this paragraph. THE CWB MUST GRANT LICENSES TO WESTERN FARMER APPLICANTS. According to you the Board is doing such a fine job, so only the radicals and the marginalized will apply for export licenses anyhow. A handful of ineffectuals are hardly going to make any difference.
4. Farmers should always be aware that the CWB neither follows the CWB Act that governs them nor respects the farmers that they serve. If this crown corporation refuses to follow the law, they actually show contempt towards the farmers they serve. As do the Directors. So with all these proposed programs that could come into effect, what makes you think the CWB will follow their own rules, or contracts?
Lastly, farmers are ticked off because their grain was not sold for a good price in a time of low production and high value. There is a big deficit in the pool accounts. Who in the world could, with a straight face, defend the CWB?
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