CWB Reform; What do YOU Need?

[Incognito]

Good Card Commercial Chaff!!!!

[sawfly]

do the audit and see for yourself whats inside. if you dont find any weapons of mass destruction. then what.
if you do find we have been makeing 50 cents a bushell more than the open market do you still axe the single desk. ( i know the answer to that )

if we go that way , to lower domestic,prices (which might be great for the economy) We had better have some amercian style farm supports in place.
The changes to the board are going to have a lot less impact on farmers than the farm support package, They should go hand in hand.
Are we going to give away a WTO bargining chip and get nothing in return ,( probably too late for that now any way)
IT seems strange that THE USA is bargining away( subsides that they havent even used yet) for actual canadian programs.

and what kind of idiot Liberal OR conservative agreed to this subsidy cap thing in the first place.

[chaffmeister]

Sawfly:

If the CWB has been making 50 cents per bushel more than the open market – would you axe the CWB? I honestly can’t tell from your posting. (Not sure how you benchmark or measure that one anyway…)

I have said it before and I’ll say it again – if it’s proven that the CWB provides a net benefit, I would not argue against it.

When I talk about the impact of the CWB on the economy, I’m not talking about prices that are too high. Because of the way the CWB buys grain from farmers, farmers are forced to grow and sell other crops to generate cash flow. Because these crops – like canola and peas – are then sold off the combine, prices and driven much lower than they would be if wheat was also a cash crop. These low prices to farmers and system inefficiencies due to congestion etc are the cost to the economy I am talking about.

In addition, there are other factors concerning the CWB’s activities that cost the farmer money – too many to go into right now. So if we’re talking about the CWB “making 50 cents per bushel more”, I hope these items would be factored in.