Gag order

[craig]

If I hear one more CWB director bring up the gag order I may have to literally gag myself. Can anyone give me an example of the CWB doing business any different after the gag order was announcement. Can anyone show me someone that was charged with violating the gag order. The CWB ignored the gag order and carried on business as usual. In fact it is hard to believe there was any more space in media circles for additional CWB press releases. As for the flawed question. The current CWB operates in a dual market with barley and Ontario operates in a dual market on wheat. It won't work but it does.

[parsley]

The CWB operates a dual market with feed barley. All of the feed going to the feed mills completely bypasses Board pooling and marketing.



Parsley

[craig]

Parsley I said that the board operates in a dual market with barley. In other words they are not the only marketer of feed barley in Western Canada. They claim they need total control of all the production to be effective and get premiums for producers,. What are they doing in the feed barley market in the first place.

[parsley]

I know you did craig, You said,

"The current CWB operates in a dual market with barley"

and you'r such a careful writer, and a good one, so I refined it a bit to add FEED barley.

I thought it we repeated it every way we could, those single-deskers might catch on.

The CWB is operating in a dual market!

Parsley

[wd9]

And at times have been quite successful at it, and utilizing the EPO, it is like a put option. If the pool went down, the price was secure, if it went up, I was able to capture the added value. This was a good CHOICE because there was choice out there and I was able to catch some good value with the board.

There is no reason it can't work with malt or wheat either. It is just good risk management on a larger scale than I could do on my own farm.

The CWB could be so successful if they only wanted to. I think that is what frustrates me the most, they don't want to be successful.

[wd9]

<p>This clip reminds me of the CWB debate.</p>
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[wd9]

If you fight about something long enough, eventually everything gets destroyed and there is nothing left.

[Fransisco]

That is a cool clip!

[TOM4CWB]

WD9,

What is our next generation of grain growers learning from this leadership today?

Can something productive come from this fight... that will facilitate a better and more productive future for our growers?

[wilagro]

Cool clip...the red guy must be the anti-CWBer. Anyway I downloaded (borrowed)it.