Hay Boone!

[Incognito]

WD9:

Boone knows who I am. I know not whom he his. Advantage Boone. I could care less. This forum is the closest I've come to finding a group of Mensa candidates in this industry.

If you want to start the accountability right here - post your name. I used to post under my name and someone took exception to it in Agriville; therefore, INCOGNITO. I don't post any different today than I did then. With regards to bureaucrats reading this site - they do. I send it to them on occasion

Freenorth:

The best example of throwing all sides in the same room emanated from the Western Grain Marketing panel. Viewing the composition of the panel from the outside and the inside, I couldn’t decide whether it was 5 left, 5 right or 4 and 4 with one maybe for either side.

They worked hard to build consensus and ALL agreed to the recommendations put forth to Ralph Malph. Ralph just about puked when he saw the report. He designed that panel to fail and never ever thought they would reach consensus. But that’s the past. It is important to know the past though when you are looking to the future.

Today, farmers are polarized politically. In Saskatchewan, farmers send SK Party candidates to Regina and expect the NDP to hear them. In Western Canada, Conservatives are sent and farmers expect the Liberals to hear them. WD9: Accountability ends at the Manitoba border federally; and 2 miles outside of Regina and Saskatoon provincially. That polarization costs farmers politically and financially. I’m not suggesting rural SK run and vote NDP or western Canada vote LIB in the next election (most fathers and grandfathers are not buried deep enough) but some sensitivity to political power should be forethought and not an afterthought.

From my desk, I get to see farmers going broker (there u go Boone) and looking for answers. Some want freedom. Some want status quo. Most hate risk but despise risk management. As Boone pointed out – for some risk management is an Act Of God clause. All just want to be profitable, and not rely on gov’t for ANYTHING.

What’s the answer? Dust off the Panel Recommendations. There was something in that report for everyone… except Ralph.

[boone]

Yo! (better than Hay) you can relax I haven't got you pegged yet, actually I don't know Shinola from Copenhagen about you except when I scratched the commodity guys you blinked (recall). And the hockey jibe was for the gallery.
I have learned though that you can have diverse backgrounds and still find common ground if self interest isn't all that motivates your opinions.
Some days I too feel like banging my head on the floor, but this week and this next couple of months will give us all a chance to consider just how far we would like to advance as grain marketers. Let's do it right, and not become polarized. Who knows by then we might have a new group of players in the 'Peg.'
And as for mixing up our altered egos here, you know what I say "EGOS are like ICICLES the more you rub'm the clearer they get".

[Incognito]

Yo! Fonz:

Nay on the self-interest. A lesson learned from my grandfather:

It is your responsibilty to give back.

[freenorth]

The Western Grain Marketing Panel Report is the model consensus building exercise. They had a clear mandate and were determined to make recomendations. There were only 9 people. Even they in 96 recommended that:
- feed barley be removed from the CWB ASAP
- option of removing 25% of sales from the CWB pool
- asked for forward cash prices

A common theme as expressed in Hansard was " the panel rejected proposals that the current powers of the CWB be preserved and that the boards jurisdiction be expanded"

Boone when is that snap chapter test anyway!!!

Imagine where we'd be today if Ralph had implemented that report that cost taxpayers $1.5m instead of shelving it to collect dust. A good peice
of work for Directors of certain organizations to revisit.

"Dare to dream"

[wd9]

The Grain Growers of Canada presented the Trade Injury Compensation Program to the federal government a couple of years ago. Solid work on injury from tarriffs and subsidies which came out to $1.3 billion per year. The government agreed fully with the numbers and said GGC was accurate and true yet refused to compensate grains and oilseed producers. The work goes on in an even better group than the 'panel', yet so does NO from the government.

[boone]

POST now that's more like it class, LOL good input from some solid fact finding. Now Incognito I think your grandpa'd be proud of the work here.
Lest we forget for every point of view politicians receive from the Ying they must consider the Yang. You guys are fairly tough on "Ralph the Careful" but you might not like to walk in his shoes for very long. Buys them in Regina, has for years they say. He carries the aspirations of many in his decisions. Including his own. Big job, big shoes, firm understanding. By the way, anyone heard how the votes are coming in?

[Incognito]

For a man that likes to emulate (and be mentored) by OEL, he doesn't have the same courage nor vision. Now doesnt that just LIFT your spirits.

In 1996, REG was intimidated by the window guy LOEWEN...and where is he now?