Parsley,
Morris Dorosh's Agriweek did a great job in the April 2/07 edition of analisis of the barley plebiscite.
This type of excellence will get me to buy my subscription for the next 5 years to Agriweek!
..."Purging duplicates cut the list to 56,000 names, about 30,000 fewer than the total used in Wheat Board director elections. Recipients who returned ballots were required to submit an affidavit testifying that only one vote was being cast per farm unit.
A total of 29,067 usable ballots were manually counted twice by different employees of KPMG, the firm engaged to conduct the vote, in the presence of scrutineers, during the week of March 26. The results were 14,068 votes for a dual market in which barley growers would be free to sell to any buyer including the Board, 4,011 for removing the Board entirely from barley marketing, and 10,987 in favor of retaining the single-desk monopoly. Support for the monopoly was 50.6% in Manitoba, 45.1% in Saskatchewan and 21.4% in Alberta. Opinion in favor of eliminating the Board from barley marketing was more evenly spread, at 14.8% in Manitoba, 12.8% in Saskatchewan and 15.2% in Alberta. In favor of a dual market or elimination of the monopoly were 49.4% of those who voted in Manitoba, 54.9% in Saskatchewan and 78.6% in Alberta.
Over the last two years Alberta farmers grew 48.8% of the barley in western Canada, Saskatchewan farmers 42.3% and Manitoba 8.8%. The 50.6% of farmers in Manitoba who want the monopoly retained account for no more than 4.5% of the barley grown on the prairies, those in Saskatchewan for 19.1% and in Alberta for 7.4%."
He explains well how the legislative orders will be done!
Morris Dorosh's Agriweek did a great job in the April 2/07 edition of analisis of the barley plebiscite.
This type of excellence will get me to buy my subscription for the next 5 years to Agriweek!
..."Purging duplicates cut the list to 56,000 names, about 30,000 fewer than the total used in Wheat Board director elections. Recipients who returned ballots were required to submit an affidavit testifying that only one vote was being cast per farm unit.
A total of 29,067 usable ballots were manually counted twice by different employees of KPMG, the firm engaged to conduct the vote, in the presence of scrutineers, during the week of March 26. The results were 14,068 votes for a dual market in which barley growers would be free to sell to any buyer including the Board, 4,011 for removing the Board entirely from barley marketing, and 10,987 in favor of retaining the single-desk monopoly. Support for the monopoly was 50.6% in Manitoba, 45.1% in Saskatchewan and 21.4% in Alberta. Opinion in favor of eliminating the Board from barley marketing was more evenly spread, at 14.8% in Manitoba, 12.8% in Saskatchewan and 15.2% in Alberta. In favor of a dual market or elimination of the monopoly were 49.4% of those who voted in Manitoba, 54.9% in Saskatchewan and 78.6% in Alberta.
Over the last two years Alberta farmers grew 48.8% of the barley in western Canada, Saskatchewan farmers 42.3% and Manitoba 8.8%. The 50.6% of farmers in Manitoba who want the monopoly retained account for no more than 4.5% of the barley grown on the prairies, those in Saskatchewan for 19.1% and in Alberta for 7.4%."
He explains well how the legislative orders will be done!
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