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The dreams of a free market die not with a bang but with a sad pathetic whimper

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    #51
    Every day the market competes for grain. Loyalty is two cents deep in any other commodity other than wheat and malt barley, where most farmers on any given day (year) cannot even tell you the price of either.

    The final payments of last year
    should have had even the board supporters enraged at the opportunity cost of the board. Our grain clearly was not orderly marketed through out the marketing calendar year or the average return would have been much higher.

    We as farmers under the CWB (not even called the Western Wheat Board which it is) in the west are victims of inequitable treatment in ours otherwise democratic country, by parliamentary rule. Harper promised to remove this and then decided not to bother. Why because the CWB serves Canada and the industry well. This he learned. End of story.

    Harper stood on the grounds of freedom for western farmers, and he has abandoned us.

    Our patriotism and our party loyalty enables even our own to disregard the basic human rights they once stood for.

    Policians do it all the time, they trade principle for power.

    Therefore i note I am patriotic, but patiotism should not require me to be
    a patriotic fool.

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      #52
      So how would you suggest the CWB market all of your grain at the high price of the year?

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        #53
        Nobody with half a brain would as.

        How about we let individual farmers decide what is their "high price" and maybe even forward contract so they can plan ahead just a teensy bit?

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          #54
          Gee I have seen a number of people on this board suggest that, interesting.

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            #55
            Are you suggesting the current board of
            directors/operations side are considering full cash
            pricing within the single desk system? A return to
            the wheat daily price contract. An wheat equivalent
            to the malt barley cash plus? Comments about the
            CWB malt barley cash plus program/targets for
            participation are on page 4 of the Jan. 23 Western
            Producer.

            I look forward to your comments on the 2007/08
            annual report with attention to the CWB
            performance measures (page 43 in the 2006/07
            report) in the CWB attempt to measure their ability
            to get a better average price than a farmer with the
            ability to make their own marketing decisions.

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