dying cwb

[kamichel]

40 people showed up in Regina?
That is huge!
I heard more speakers showed up than farmers at the Humboldt rally.

[kamichel]

I can see it now, Western producer photos focussed on the speakers.

[kamichel]

Fransisco, why did you stop there?

No farmers
No one to purchase my farm
No suppliers
No towns
No schools
No offboard grains
Off board grains sold for nothing
American border slamming shut

Wheat board statement, " Farmers can be welfare recipients"

[parsley]

13 Reasons why farmers need the Board:
YOU GET TO:
1.Pay for demmurage
2. Pay for CIGI
3. Pay for University grants
4. Pay for scholarships
5. Pay for funding Uof S AgEcon Dept Staff Studies
6. Pay for International Trade Wars
7. Pay for licensing every flour mill and feed mill exporting.
8. Pay for port cleaning
9. Pay for transportation
10. Pay volume by having your contract broken by the Board.
11.Pay for political donations and suppers
12. Pay for licennsing across Canada
13. Pay for Canada Custom compliance
14. Pay for a weather station!

[wedino]

Parsley,
15. Pay for SARM annual convention.

[Jay-mo]

16. Pay for advertising propaganda aimed at farmers to convince us of what a good job they are doing.

[chaffmeister]

17. Pay for travel to see far off clients - even though the AE's are already doing it (sometimes they see each other in the airports or even in the clients office.

Price tag: $2.6 million

[TOM4CWB]

18. Pay for HUGE Legal costs to fight the Minister Responsible... who didn't want "designated area" growers to pay for the political "single desk" promotional expenses listed above and below;

19. Pay for Legal costs to fight a Political public relations fiasco, to fight against paying for the CWB CEO/President's Wages;

20. Pay for CWB Directors to spend day after day... @ $500/day, to fight the people of Canada, the gov. of Canada, the grain growers of Canada... who simply need the CWB to respect and honour those they were supposed to serve;

21. Pay for the time we spend trying to counter the bunch of communist retoric the above "single desk" DIrectors are trying to ram down Canadians, Customers, and Grain Growers throats... communist retoric that everyone knows is a dead end and wasted time talking about;

22. Pay for a deplorable job of selling "Designated Area" grain... because CWB /management/staff are so confused about what their job discriptions are... they don't realise/can't understand what they are supposed to work towards each day... as the Code of COnduct and Conflict of Interest Guidlines don't reconcile with management orders;

[TOM4CWB]

Parsley;

On,
8. Pay for port cleaning...

THEN, we get to pay for the adding back of dockage into the cleaned grain... because the enduser wants the dockage, everyone else sends... so we add it back and send it to them;

[chaffmeister]

23. Pay for mistakes. Like shipping wheat from Churchill to Vancouver, or shipping wheat from Montreal to Vancouver.