Option 2 is "Advice to the Minister"

[wedino]

Coors imported malt barley from Montana to Canada Malt at Calgary last year. Ernie says in this post that price was very good.

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[gregpet]

Well Rod if your position is to agitate on this discussion then I will lose a lot of respect for you. Why not instead answer the questions that were asked of you and stimulate some beneficial discussion. Not very good or very professional as a representative of the CWB. I was hoping you would have taken the high road, at least I could respect that. Is that too much to ask.

[chaffmeister]

Evader: I understand there's been 20 posts since I asked this so maybe it got lost in all the noise - I will repost:

Evader: Clarification, please.

you wrote:
<i>Tell him that you put my name on your membership list so that you could pretend to represent more people than you really do. This may have been more of John's doing than your own.</i>

This implies that you believe that your name was on this membership list. Is this what you are saying?

And if so, what evidence supports this allegation?

When you answer, I will explain why I am interested.

[ridgie]

vader
your a fine one to talk about getting angry at people when your or your position is challenged.
At least I have never wavered from my stand on choice in marketing!!!!!

[wedino]

Vader, I don't have the time & I don't like telling people what to do. Unlike you, I do have a main stream of income - O excuse me, I forgot, your main stream of income is your cwb job!!

[wedino]

Cotten, ""Anybody else here got the balls to say who they are?""

Done, long ago.
Care to answer your own question?

[sask]

vader, you're trying to keep your job, we
understand that. However, you are a bright guy with
lots of ideas. Show some leadership here and try to
lead the BOD in a new direction given that far too
many farmers want change for you to maintain the
status quo. How do you think the status quo can
survive when so many want change? Let's buy your
argument that the plebiscite was biased and should
have had only 2 questions we would still have had
30-40 % unhappy farmers (and I am one of them
and I grow a lot of barley). That's alot! Even if you
have a court case, and you win, how do you deal
with the large number of farmers who want change?
If you could come up with a good plan that brings
about real change then maybe people like me
would subsequently vote for keeping the CWB.

PLEASE answer this?

[Vader]

chaff

It's my word. John Husband phoned me up and asked if he could put my name on the list. I said yes.

Sask,

I have a lot of ideas about what can be done to make barley better. It takes time to work these through committee and for staff to do the work up. It then takes even more for a majority of directors to get on side.

You might be amazed at who votes against such initiatives. It seems that some anti-CWB directors want the CWB to fail and are opposed to moving ahead on good initiatives. I do hope that someone is asking for all the voting records at the board table under access to information.

It reminds me of John Husband telling me that his worst fear was that I might fix the CWB.

I am only one voice.

[Vader]

greg,

It would be very hard for me to say anything here without a whole lot of people getting agitated.

It feels like a tag team wrestling match where I have no partner and "those" guys have a bunch. I really should quite coming here.

[charliep]

Vader

You have an interesting quote: "I have a lot of ideas about what can be done to make barley better. It takes time to work these through committee and for staff to do the work up. It then takes even more for a majority of directors to get on side."

If it were as easy as you say it is and the issue is the new directors (who have been on the job for less than 6 months), why weren't these changes (no ideas what they are) made a long time ago. Perhaps you have struggled with the board of directors all the way along - even in the old days.

I also note you made no reference to industry consultation and getting their input. I would assume that improving supply chain performance would be a number one objective of the contracts so understanding business partners needs is important.

All interesting discussion but a irrelevant right now. An open barley market is coming August 1 with the only decision whether the CWB chooses to participate or not. As noted before, the CWB has made signicant contractual commitments to customers at high prices - you can deny if you like. Your solution is to turn these contracts into pricing opportunities for farmers.