It's been quite some time since I've visited Commodity Marketing on Agri-ville. Been too busy living life I guess.
I believe the general jist of the original point being made was "Why does everything always seem to evolve back to a CWB discussion and why can't people just leave the CWB alone?"
Well JD4ME, people can't leave the CWB alone because the CWB won't leave people alone.
Ianben has asked some very legitimate questions with respect to new opportunities but unfortunatly the best we can do in western Canada is just talk about it because the CWB would have to stick their nose into it. By the time they've dug their pound of flesh out there would be little left except frustration and anger. Just ask the pasta boys what the reality of value added is when the CWB is your partner.
So as long as the CWB has control of wheat and barley, the opportunities for serious, paradim shifting, value added ventures will remain totally out of reach.
The proof can be seen in a recent previous thread about the CWB giving non-payable loans to a group of people who's life mission is to own assets that have already passed their useful life expectantcy.
So instead of a serious effort being made going in a forward direction, most of todays energy is being spent on old unresolved issues.
I figure that Man will have made the trip to Mars and back, heck we might even discover ways of traveling to distant galaxies millions of light years away and the 250 remaing prairie grain farmers will be divided 130 for the CWB and 120 against.
In the meantime I will grumble some more about the CWB and your gonna grumble because I'm grumbling about them, and someone else in some other country will be busy developing the next generation of value added industry for wheat and barley.
AdamSmith
I believe the general jist of the original point being made was "Why does everything always seem to evolve back to a CWB discussion and why can't people just leave the CWB alone?"
Well JD4ME, people can't leave the CWB alone because the CWB won't leave people alone.
Ianben has asked some very legitimate questions with respect to new opportunities but unfortunatly the best we can do in western Canada is just talk about it because the CWB would have to stick their nose into it. By the time they've dug their pound of flesh out there would be little left except frustration and anger. Just ask the pasta boys what the reality of value added is when the CWB is your partner.
So as long as the CWB has control of wheat and barley, the opportunities for serious, paradim shifting, value added ventures will remain totally out of reach.
The proof can be seen in a recent previous thread about the CWB giving non-payable loans to a group of people who's life mission is to own assets that have already passed their useful life expectantcy.
So instead of a serious effort being made going in a forward direction, most of todays energy is being spent on old unresolved issues.
I figure that Man will have made the trip to Mars and back, heck we might even discover ways of traveling to distant galaxies millions of light years away and the 250 remaing prairie grain farmers will be divided 130 for the CWB and 120 against.
In the meantime I will grumble some more about the CWB and your gonna grumble because I'm grumbling about them, and someone else in some other country will be busy developing the next generation of value added industry for wheat and barley.
AdamSmith
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