CWB Producer Survey Released

[parsley]

Survey says:

Only 44% of producers strongly supported the Board.

The rest were either somewhat supportive or opposed.


Times have changed agstar.

Parsley

[rodb]

Heard Chairman Ken doing an interview on the radio today. He wants to incorporate a lot of things we have had in the open market. I would say "to little to late and get out of the way so the train doesn't hit you".

I read the article on the Cwb's report on the railroads. Does Ian McCreary know what the word arrogance means?

I guess I am getting cranky with all the rain.

[kamichel]

So how did the CWB get this? From their news room.

Survey shows farmers unwilling to risk strong CWB

June 21, 2007

Regina – Western Canadian farmers are not prepared to put the CWB at risk in order to have the government completely open up the barley market, according to results of the CWB’s annual producer survey, presented today at the Western Canada Farm Progress Show.

“Ensuring that the CWB remains strong is clearly important to Prairie producers,” CWB board chair Ken Ritter said of the survey, conducted in April 2007 among 1,300 farmers. “The CWB is the institution that most farmers identify with and it is clear from their responses that they do not want to lose it.”

Almost 60 per cent of farmers in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba agreed with the statement “I am against anything that would weaken the CWB”. Sixty-six per cent of producers said that the views of the CWB are close to their own – significantly higher than any other farm group, grain company or government. Sixty per cent said the government must ensure the CWB remains strong and viable if it moved to open up the barley market.

[Fransisco]

They must have special glasses. The kind that makes up look like down,left look like right and black look like white.

Seems like they still think they can 'fake' the free market. No one else ever has but Ritter, Toews and company think they are smarter than everyone else.

With spring wheat worth a buck a bushel less in the dominion than in the land of the free they're doing as bang up job in banging up the farm economy.

[TOM4CWB]

Fran,

THe CWB MUST protect us from ourselves.

The question is... will the Canadian Courts get sucked in and agree that we don't have any property or civil rights?

If the courts rule on the side of the CWB Single Mindlessness... it will prove just how broken our court system has become... somewhat like our Senate!

Harper needs to remove & chase out the barnicles and leaches off the good ship Blue Nose!

[charliep]

Just note that the full powerpoint presentation/interview schedule as well as the 2006 survey are available. Lots of paper to print but well worth looking at.

[craig]

I just went through the power point presentation and my conclusion is that the survey shows there is an almost even split between CWB supporters and free market players. The CWB can be accused of wording the survey to get the results it wanted just as it claims the government worded the plebisite to get the result they wanted Why at the end of the day can't half the farmers be given the opportunity to go a different direction than operating under the CWB. I suspect that if the survey was based on tonnage delivered to the board you would find a much higher percentage favoring an open market. The question regarding whether the private trade can sell for more than the CWB is a stupid question. As a producer I am concerned about what I get paid.