So .....I am a selfish farmer....hahaha

[bucket]

Reading the WCWGA newsletter I am considered a selfish farmer because I don't want to grow more....and then by extension I don't want to pay more taxes.....


**** me I can't stop laughing at the ****ing moron that writes this shit. ...


From their website...

""""....
Back to cereal breeding for a moment. I heard with disappointment,*comments from some short-sighted farmers at "Seed Value Creation"*consultations;

"We don’t need higher yielding wheat as the world has an oversupply."

How selfish that must sound to those that go hungry every night. *
""""""""


it's as ignorant as stacking a farmer meeting with people that have been lobbying the government for years.....


Selfish.....that's laughable....

[bucket]

I assume the WCWGA has a clear cut vision how to feed the starving in Yemen and other African nations....

Since I am too selfish to suggest anything. ...

And they have a vision as to how to move these monstrous crops they want to grow.....seems to me that they didn't think about that when lobbying for their vision of agriculture and ended up with the grain freight disaster of 2013....

Selfish is only thinking of about 450 farmers.....out of the 45000 in western Canada. ....

[jazz]

Sounds like more of the same trope - grow it at a loss, do it for the nation. Now do it for starving kids in Yemen being killed by Canadian military hardware.

Just like we bailed out the Russians and Chinese famines back in the 70s and gave free wheat to the British in the WWs.

[jazz]

bucket not only did the letter have a nice little guilt trip about starving kids, the author got in a little shot at farmers who are short timers and not interested in the next generation. The nerve.


We must let our policy makers and political leaders know that is NOT the sentiment of farmers who are here for the long term and have another generation entering the business.

[ajl]

Lol. Better to be silent and be though a fool than to speak and remove all doubt. There are people who consider themselves to be the elite and yet they think like this. These guys are so crazy they have done the impossible: make the NFU seem sane. I too am looking forward to the plan that shows how more seed tax in Canuckistan will help those starving children. They could farm a lot more land in Africa if the was a culture and a functioning economy to promote it.

[bucket]

If you take the 1.6 billion announced for the capitalists in the energy sector....divide this by the buck a tonne royalty on a 35million tonne wheat crop .....its 45 years of seed royalty ....


just an interesting factoid for those unselfish WCWGA capitalist loving, no government involvement farmers...

They really are boy scouts.....

[furrowtickler]

bucket not only did the letter have a nice little guilt trip about starving kids, the author got in a little shot at farmers who are short timers and not interested in the next generation. The nerve.


We must let our policy makers and political leaders know that is NOT the sentiment of farmers who are here for the long term and have another generation entering the business.

Let our policy makers and political leaders know there WILL BE NO other generation entering the business if our net incomes continue to drop because of ever increasing costs and tax’s.......

Starving kids are a result of horrible government regimes ...... not lack of food.
Most of the nations with starving kids have lots of money for political corruption and wasteful militaries .... to guilt us as farmers is ass backwards and a gutless excuse for ones own interests.

[walterm]

If you take the 1.6 billion announced for the capitalists in the energy sector....divide this by the buck a tonne royalty on a 35million tonne wheat crop .....its 45 years of seed royalty ....


just an interesting factoid for those unselfish WCWGA capitalist loving, no government involvement farmers...

They really are boy scouts.....

I was thinking if 1.6 B loan had been made available to farmers along with the assets of the CWB as partners, to build a new grain company maybe we wouldn't have needed the Saudi's building elevators and port terminals that may eventually be 100% controlled by some Saudi Prince.

[bucket]

I was thinking if 1.6 B loan had been made available to farmers along with the assets of the CWB as partners, to build a new grain company maybe we wouldn't have needed the Saudi's building elevators and port terminals that may eventually be 100% controlled by some Saudi Prince.

The really funny part of the Saudi deal is they get assets in Canada while canadians expense bullets on behalf of the Saudis...

Its like selling your land to the Nature Conservancy of Canada then renting it back for 20 years....it costs the NCC nothing....

And the Saudis paid nothing for the CWB ...the fictional 250 million stayed in the coffers of the CWB/G3....its their money...

Along with probably some government money in the port facilities...

What vision...to whisper in Yerry's ear to get rid of the CWB and sell it to the Saudis....for nothing.....then ask western Canadian farmers to pay a seed tax....


What great guys... zero vision for primary producers in the ag industry...

[SASKFARMER3]

WCWGA

What a joke these elite in their own mind fools need to get with reality.

The world doesn’t work the way they view it.

As a country we’re going backwards with all these bills all in the name of saving the starving world.

F$&king morons is what they are.

Stupid comments like that is the reason I won’t pay to be part of their group.

[seldomseen]

HaHa Yes we are selfish! The industry takes most of the money and we take all the risk.

I have always thought the industry leaves just enough money so farmer will keep going. If the industry takes it all and farmers leave then they would be left with the risk.

[sk_wheatking]

I have always thought the industry leaves just enough money so farmer will keep going. If the industry takes it all and farmers leave then they would be left with the risk.

I have said this for years. It is bang on. The powers that be step off your throat just enough every year to let you breath for another year. People say the grain companies want the land to take over the industry, lol , they dont want anything to do with the actual farming just the no risk sales.

[oneoff]

Let me add my name to those in favor of not overproducing by 5% or 10%. That only drags the other 90% into the category that can't pay the expenses AND make a profit to make the whole enterprise worth continuing.

Some people can apparently show no shame for attempting to speak on behalf of the majority who would never voluntarily support the words being spoken "on their behalf".

[Guest]

EVERYONE ; GET YOUR MONEY BACK TOMMOROW FROM THIS SORRY POS OUTFIT !!!!
surely to god this will be the last straw ?????

[bucket]

bucket not only did the letter have a nice little guilt trip about starving kids, the author got in a little shot at farmers who are short timers and not interested in the next generation. The nerve.


We must let our policy makers and political leaders know that is NOT the sentiment of farmers who are here for the long term and have another generation entering the business.

I have a son who trapped coyotes and with the money bought cows and heifers ...not from me...but others...his money his choice...

I warn him about jerk offs like the WCWGA every chance I get....they will not help you ...they will help themselves....

I explain he has worked for what he has...do not let anyone say they have your interests on your behalf because they haven't worked for what you have .....you have...

Fool me once ( the transition to an open market) shame on you, fool me twice ( seed tax) shame on me....