Peas? Suck? Price in the Tank! Trudeau takes a personal.

[jazz]

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Had the CWB been run as a semi private enterprise with real free marketers on board, it could have had enormous clout in the world trade and extract a premium for farmers. Alas even after it was reformed it was stacked with govt cronies and socialists.

[binthere]

True free market that is regulated. Bahahahaha. True free market there is always some going to bite the dust. Drop the Marxism man.

[bucket]

True free market that is regulated. Bahahahaha. True free market there is always some going to bite the dust. Drop the Marxism man.

Interesting comment....so when tariffs are applied to steel and aluminum ...the government immediately steps in so they don't bite the dust....whereas in agriculture farmers have a pulse tariff and we are expected to bite the dust while industry gets full funding to stay in business even though it relies on the primary producer????

[WiltonRanch]

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For **** sakes let it die and move on. Initially it was set up so Great Britain wouldn’t starve during the war. Then it morphed as the saviour for western farmers but all it did was mask the complacency of the whole industry to modernize transportation and disincentive to value added production. Much like the crow rate kept everyone behind 30 years. Till you grew a few bushels of wheat and had to deal with them you have nothing to offer here in this argument.

[the big wheel]

True free market that is regulated. Bahahahaha. True free market there is always some going to bite the dust. Drop the Marxism man.

Lmao hahahaha
Ya but do you want it to be you? Hahahaha it's always ok until it hits your own door. You guys with your get rid of the cwb without a plan can't handle the reality that just like the trucking industry that now has money above safety and peoplegerring killed daily without the proper regulations so to is the great grain robbery no matter what it is if you don't have rules you have nothing free all you have is those with eh biggest wallet to pay the politician calls the shots. It's the way it is. Aside from it's better to sell when you want and get your shitty amount of money right away the wheat board was no worse than the shit show robbery going on now. Just differnt people. Hahahahaha

[jazz]

...disincentive to value added production.

The CWB surely had tons of faults, but the replacement regime is nothing to write home about. So you cna sell your crop freely now and get a buck less than the americans get... yippee.

And I dont see all those pasta plants and flour mills or even ethanol plants in the province. Value added has been a bust. Basically we survived by moving to different crops - oilseeds and pulses that other countries cant or dont grow. Basically wheat acts as summerfallow or chemfallow - a chance to clean up your land for the higher value crops. Nobody is making a buck at wheat.

[Braveheart]

Big Wheel, what the hell is a free market that is regulated? Oxymoron or what.

[workboots]

Maybe we need more local value added processing of our raw products.

[Taiga]

Pea protein (as meal replacement/supplement) is gaining popularity quickly and is very quickly replacing milk derived proteins (casein and whey). It is predicted to become a good staple in parts of the world where beef is too expensive or not suitable. I like my beef, but I would choose pea protein over crickets and grasshoppers for protein every time.

[grassfarmer]

Big Wheel, what the hell is a free market that is regulated? Oxymoron or what.

Isn't "Free market" in reality a bit of an oxymoron too?

Even Wikipedia explains "Free Market" as an idealized system in which the prices for goods and services are determined by the open market and consumers, in which the laws and forces of supply and demand are free from any intervention by a government, price-setting monopoly, or other authority.