charliep,
I've been a little reticent to get into looking at the merits of improving the buyback. You say:
"This process makes your contribution to the overall pool (wealth redistribution if you like) very visible."
Or does it, charliep? For example, the admin fee for one guy is CWB$2.00/tonne, or another price for another guy? The buyback quote will be one price for one and different for another.
Farmers can hardly compare individually, and a daily buyback board is simply not available to farmers. The grain companies could probably attest to the discrepancies in quotes they get, if they've shown a little tto much spirit to suit the Board. There is no REAL transparency. Period.
So we end up working on the details to make the buyback better for scenarios that simply take up my time and my money.
In organic, some of the guys found it difficult to come up with the buyback money up front, so the CWB muddled, and met, and huddled and wept, and finally offered a Credit program. Torkelson took it.
The CWB puts you "on a tab", and you don't pay til the end of the pool. They charge interest, they charge an admin fee, they issue the license, they monitor the sale, and they are nice to his buyer when they get his address, his phone number and his mothers e-mail address. They have a whole department set up for this operation and Donna Youngdahl is in the Sales and Market Development Program which facilitates this "service".
The laughable part is that the CWB has not yet marketed one bloody bushel of organic wheat or barley.
Nor do we want them to.
But wait until they "educate" all the buyers with promises of reasonably-priced grain, and make sure the buyback is an economic nightmare; all this legitimizes their goal, and they will ride in on a snorting Flamin horse, to save these poor organic farmers from the greedy clutches of the open market system.
Can you imagine Toyota setting up an entire department to facilitate selling boats when they don't sell boats?
This is an example of how the CWB operates, highhanded and full steam ahead on farmers' dollars. Donna Youngdahl must have been paid out of somebody's purse to become a non-marketing organic expert.
And dabbling about the buyback isn't addressing the problem head on:
Why din't Torkelson get a no-buyback license?
Parsley
I've been a little reticent to get into looking at the merits of improving the buyback. You say:
"This process makes your contribution to the overall pool (wealth redistribution if you like) very visible."
Or does it, charliep? For example, the admin fee for one guy is CWB$2.00/tonne, or another price for another guy? The buyback quote will be one price for one and different for another.
Farmers can hardly compare individually, and a daily buyback board is simply not available to farmers. The grain companies could probably attest to the discrepancies in quotes they get, if they've shown a little tto much spirit to suit the Board. There is no REAL transparency. Period.
So we end up working on the details to make the buyback better for scenarios that simply take up my time and my money.
In organic, some of the guys found it difficult to come up with the buyback money up front, so the CWB muddled, and met, and huddled and wept, and finally offered a Credit program. Torkelson took it.
The CWB puts you "on a tab", and you don't pay til the end of the pool. They charge interest, they charge an admin fee, they issue the license, they monitor the sale, and they are nice to his buyer when they get his address, his phone number and his mothers e-mail address. They have a whole department set up for this operation and Donna Youngdahl is in the Sales and Market Development Program which facilitates this "service".
The laughable part is that the CWB has not yet marketed one bloody bushel of organic wheat or barley.
Nor do we want them to.
But wait until they "educate" all the buyers with promises of reasonably-priced grain, and make sure the buyback is an economic nightmare; all this legitimizes their goal, and they will ride in on a snorting Flamin horse, to save these poor organic farmers from the greedy clutches of the open market system.
Can you imagine Toyota setting up an entire department to facilitate selling boats when they don't sell boats?
This is an example of how the CWB operates, highhanded and full steam ahead on farmers' dollars. Donna Youngdahl must have been paid out of somebody's purse to become a non-marketing organic expert.
And dabbling about the buyback isn't addressing the problem head on:
Why din't Torkelson get a no-buyback license?
Parsley
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