Hey Lee and Charlie, do you think you could arrange a new discusssion area called "The CWB and it's pact with Satan" I think Tom would like to be the moderator. I think if you play the new kennedy assasination game if you play the tape slowly you can see Ken Ritter on the grassy Knoll tom...........
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Considering that I'm old enough to remember exactly what I was doing when JFK was shot, your post has a mixture of humour (I actually laughed out loud) and the morose!
Charlie and I sometimes wonder what it would take to get the Marketing area to discuss something other than the CWB debate.
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Lee;
What other single factor has so much effect Lee.
A $45/t buy back on feed wheat
A $30/t buy back on feed barley.
Take one look at the new 2nd barley pool PRO the CWB just put out!
What can I say Lee... does this not throw a chain around the whole feed market in western Canada and suck it down?
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yes Lee I posted that with my tounge planted firmly in my cheek, I think apart from a roll (wait I've seen tom) a case of duct tape and taking away somebodies internet priviledge, youre somewhat limited ergo the new discussion area, I'd like to believe that we could have good discussions here without being dragged kicking and screaming into old circular debates but singlemindedness and common sense sometimes don't track together all that well. Hence my grassy knoll observation. one thing about an area like this is that if you choose not to read something or from someone you can make the decision.
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Agstar77;
I can smell the fear, intimidation, and deception, two feet from my keyboard!
Why can't we bake a bigger pie.
Bake a pie based on trust, good will, faith, and a spirit of cooperation!
Wouldn't this be much better for our families and communities?
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The spirit of co-operation is dying in the west, along with dozens of boarded up communities. What is the cause? CWB maybe or is it the rush to be bigger more efficient farm corporations caused by production cost squeeze in the quest for cheap food . A bigger pie would be nice but if it only means more for a few ,these communities are doomed. Dwindling population crumbling infrastructure, what the west needs is a larger population base and move away from agriculture dependency on large corporate farms .They may be efficient but they will not fill the empty classrooms or the community centers. A few large farmers will not pay for the crumbling highway system. You can talk all you want about freedom and independence but that won't save the rural economy in the west. Alta. is surviving on oil everyone else is out of luck. Excuse me for rambling, I get like this when someone tells me all I need is freedom to be successful, besides it's been a stressful year.
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So... we need an influx of new farmers. Will they be the present rural kids staying at home and raising a family, or is it enhanced immigration? To attract them the job, and its compensation, needs to be competitive with other vocations. But to do that, we probably need higher prices and if that happens, then the current farmers will likely expand faster than the new farmers. Therefore we still have the same problem of shrinking rural population.
Just thinking out loud, but the first thing that comes to mind is REALLY attractive beginning farmer programs. In this day and age of "money is everything" it's hard to argue for the intangibles of the rural life. Perhaps society will come full circle some day and start moving back to the country, but I don't think that has happened anywhere in the world yet!
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