Canola Commissions

[bucket]

Notice how it’s the Richardson cargo’s running into trouble? Triffid flax in Europe and now canola in China? Are they old WINNIPEG Liberals and are a good target or something else? I don’t know...just asking the question.

It is very well run company, Curt Vossen is a grainco visionary that was well trained at Cargill and has made a lot of dough for his owners and himself.

But the lobbying on behalf of his company requires farmers and MEGZ to push the issue...maybe she can get in front of the agriculture committee....no sense in asking any of us with 30 years experience of an opinion......

[ajl]

The commissions have a solution: need a seed tax so billionaire seed breeders can release the 100 bu/ac varieties and then it can be grown for $6 per bushel. I think Richardsons were targeted by the Chinese because of historical ties to the lieberal party. The Chinese are using this as a test case to see if canuckistanian law can be subverted from Beijing as it can be from *****bec. They are learning that nobody who matters care about western canuckistan just as we already know. Well get ready for lower for longer just like the pulse industry is currently enjoying.

[JoeyJeremiah]

Is there anything that they can do though? Assuming this really is entirely retribution for the arrested executive, nothing they could say will change anything until she is released.

Your right, probably not a whole lot they can do. But doing nothing certainly wont help. At the very least they could be putting out a press release on their plans on how they are going to resolve this. Its a large bit of hyperbole on my part to be expecting all the directors to be boarding a plane to china to resolve this. But at the very least I would expect some of the employees to be headed to Ottawa to help the government understand the importance of a resolution. If this is a phytosanitary problem, as China says, there must be a way to resolve this and we should be figuring out how. Perhaps we need to stop adding dockage to our shipments, just because its allowed(maybe this isn't done, but if it is it should be stopped). If this is a political situation, well then we need Justine to do his damn job.

This is a very serious situation and at the very least I would be expecting the canola directors to be meeting days ago to come up with a plan. And perhaps letting the farmer in on what their plan is, because the plan seems to be just sticking their heads in the sand.

[the big wheel]

When trump ****ed up trade ....he threw 12 billion at farmers....

This is all Trudeau's doing....he won't do shit beause no one will lobby for direct payments like in the states..

Farm organizations are quiet....

Their lobbying has proven useless.....on pulses and now canola....and the federal government is deaf....

Time to stop funding them. They are useless as us evident they should be saying a lot already.

[SASKFARMER3]

I agree with Big Wheel.

This head in the sand approach is sickening and we should quit funding them.

Oh maybe they need a meeting in Hawaii or some place.

Slapaliberal is becoming a new hashtag ah first out of the box

[GDR]

Not sure who it was but calgary 770 talk radio interviewed a guy from the council last week genuinely interested in the issue wanting to find more out about it. The host asked a few questions about the canola industry and the idiot she interviewed never answered any questions properly, all sounded like answers from a politician trying not to answer, and for what? Very dissapointed, her second guest was from Reuters who broke the news story and he was much more helpful. She was trying to get a handle on the size of the industry, impact to farmers, jobs involved, plus simple non farmer questions like harvest timing vs sales, what Blackleg is, what dockage is etc.

Industry PR is what those morons are there for.