Is CWB not selling feed barley to protect malt Pool

[AdamSmith]

Adam, well said!!!

[wd9]

Actually 1/2 the ballots seems like it should be considered a very good turnout since at least 30% of the ballots go to addresses of people who don't farm or no longer care about it.

[cottonpicken]

Jesus,adam,your a bloody genuis.
Of course the absolute reverse logic would also be true.

[AdamSmith]

Of course!

But I don't think Harper leans that way!

[rain]

Snappy get rid of the board, sell barley to who ever you want. Sell wheat to who ever you want. The CWB is not the problem it is the people who support them who are the majority.

My point is the domestic feed grain user, the domestic malt and foreign malt users and I hate to say it, the CWB are not the problem. The problem is the people in the industry who are the problem "Producers"

We need the domestic and export markets for barley. I do not beleive the export value of malt barley has any bearing on domestic feed barley prices. The domestic market for barley is 4 to 5 times the malt market total.

Just remeber what I pointed out earlier what ever barley that does not get exported stays here and all of a sudden our tight barley supply is no longer tight.

The CWB to my understanding has only sold into the domestic market once and that was into BC. That sale did raise the pool return.

[TOM4CWB]

PeaQueen;

In the vote on Ontario Wheat Marketing Board... for monopoly status to remain 66% or more had to vote in favour of retaining the monopoly.

The Ontario people pulled the vote at the last minute... but the principal remains.

A simple majority doesn't cut it when voting on property and Civil rights... in a free and democratic country.

[wanaka]

If the people who feel the CWB is the answer to an orderly wheat market then why should it not be all wheat in Canada be under the CWB jurisdiction not just us in the west. Then all farmers in Canada would be equal. Is this not the what the CWB is about equalizing farmers more so than the selling of our wheat.

[peaqueen]

The world will buy feed barley and malt barley.

When this market is opened up to small shippers, we will have customers who will buy buy barley for feed in small lots. Yes even in one or two container lots, business which right now appears not to be attended too by Canadian exporters.

[peaqueen]

The world will buy feed barley and malt barley.

When this market is opened up to small shippers, we will have customers who will buy buy barley for feed in small lots. Yes even in one or two container lots, business which right now appears not to be attended too by Canadian exporters.

[peaqueen]

Last election we had 32% ballot return.
This time with higher stakes and a paired down voters list we are at last count: 51.5%.

This turn out is lower than the percentages of return in Provincial and Federal elections.

Maybe it is just my thinking but this election had impact on peoples daily bread, should we not have expected a higher rate of return.

Which leads to the questions, does the low turnout reflect:

1/ almost 1/2 of farmers who do not care enough to participate
(obviously not the people I talk to)
or
2/ we have a voters list need to go trough a total review.

If the industry does not have confidence in the voters list, how valid is the process?

And indeed a voters list should define the players. As we know much opposition is generated from the teapot of people who have no vested interest in the economic reality of the debate.

It would be nice to get this right before the barley plebescite