Alberta Wheat & Barley Marketing Board

[ianben]

Hi Tom
We really have come full circle now.
I say yes yes yes!!!! if you have some control of supply.
I will try to copy what you do here!!!

Regards Ian

[parsley]

For a farmer to have to apply to the government, any government, for a license in order to grow a crop is absolutely unacceptable.

Alberta talks a whole lot of free enterprise. Time they started acting like they actually believe in it.

Parsley

[Vader]

Now we have opened up a can of worms. Does a provincial marketing board necessarily imply that one would need a licence in order to grow that commodity? What happens when a producer in Ontario grows wheat without a licence?

Do the advantages of a system like this outweigh the disadvantages? Just because you have a provincial marketing scheme does that mean that the powers of the Canadian Wheat Board are circumvented? I think not. Even producers in Ontario are required to have a Canadian Wheat Board Export Licence to export their grain. At this point in time the CWB simply rubber stamps these applications if they have been approved by the Ontario Wheat Board. That does not necessarily have to be the case. If Alberta formed a provincial wheat and barley board that does not guarantee that the CWB would rubber stamp their request for exprot licences.

[chas]

Tom4cwb Thanks for the information. I've spend the last 4 winters in California and have been removed from the information flow but I only have my self to blame. This winter I'm home and interested in why the prices of grain seem to keep falling throughout history instead of keeping up. You have convinced me that the old school of thought needs a full adjustment in the fast changing world. CWB legislation needs an overhaul.
A license to grow wheat let me think about that one. I hope to attend several meetings this month to tune up my thinking. Chas

[TOM4CWB]

Chas,

Jim Chatenay has invited Mr. Ken Nixon, the past president of the Ontario Wheat Producers' Marketing Board to Red Deer at the Red Deer Lodge tomorrow, the 5th of March at 7:00pm.

We expect to have a really good debate on these issues at the meeting, and this would be a really good chance to learn more about a Provincial Wheat Board!

Jim wants a full and open debate on these issues, and you are more than welcome to come, as is anyone who happens to read this notice!

Hope to see you there!

Parsley,

I hope I have not offended you too much!

I guess my red neck needs a little more exposure to the sun! I must be sitting at the computer too much!

Am I loseing my senses or what!

I think that a good healthy debate on these issues can never hurt, can they?

I have had many people tell me they cannot figure me out! I guess, I beleive using common sense and decent respect for each other in the end could solve just about anything, couldn't it?

Sounds like it is a little far for you to come to Red Deer, how about I do a little report when I get back and tell you all how it went?

[chas]

Tom4cwb: I plan to be at the meeting march 5. I'll be the tall thin good looking gentlemen with no hair. Would like to meet you. Respectfully Chas