WGRF $$$: 1/Leave2/ Return 3/Build

[haveapulse]

Western Grains foundation is a benefactor of almost 70 million dollars of farmer money. I believe it should be farmers decision as to what happens with this money.

(for more info please read the discussions in "Railraoded")

I believe the line in the sand is
FARMERS DECIDE, not OTTAWA decides what direction we prefer.
1/ leave with WGRF
2/ Return to farmers
3/ redirect into a value add fund for building value add projects.

I personally am in favor of
3/ BUILD
using the money to create an agri invets fund as a base for capital to build value add projects.

2/ Return, while most ideologically pure, the reason to leave as a fund is when taken as whole the money is significant enough to enable us the power to build value add industry.

To take the pool and like the story of the fishes in the bible, multiply.

1/ Leave with WGRF, research definately produces dividends, But we need added value to give us a better marketplace. We already fund research dollars these annual contributions are
already built into our cost of production.

We need value add industry, to create a better market environment for the future. The fund would let PRODUCERS identify where to invest, what to invest in, and to have ownership in these projects, be they are investor shares, in a larger project or as independently (fund owned) projects.


THE fund taken as a whole, provides a tool to
accomplish the fact
IT IS TIME TO TAKE SOME MEASURE OF CONTROL OVER OUR OWN DESTINY! and in so doing diversify our market place with the intent to grow a less governmetn dependant sector.

IF you want to be part of working for this to happen; you can contact me at
vicki@westerngrain.com


Let us make things happen!

[cottonpicken]

4-lawyers


You simply cant build a fertilizer company with 70 million dollars and hope to compete.

The phrase,honey,is economy of scale.

Lawers could:

a=investigate the railroads and take legal action against them

b=investigate the fertilizer companies and take legal action against them

c=investigate the seed companies and take action against them

d=investigate the cwb and take action against them

e=investigate the grain companies and take action against them

The "BATTLE" is in the courts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[cottonpicken]

Unless of course this value added project is in MINES community,then i'm all for it.

[cottonpicken]

Or maybe Viki has a good idea what community should get the funds already.

[furrowtickler]

cotton, over half the money will end up in these lawyers hands. I would hope they produce viable results. For every $1 paid to these lawyers there better be a $2-$3 return.

[agstar77]

Maybe western grain trade needs help?

[haveapulse]

Oh my, no wonder the industry is where it is, are you fellows CWB supporters too, what are the odds.

[haveapulse]

Lets talk about the idea, boys!

[Hopperbin]

Haveapulse I would like to say I support any ideas of value added. So go hard.
I would like to see more value added in western Canada than the maybe 5000 dollars returned directly to my pocket.
How to create that value added is not my area of expertise.

[Hopperbin]

Havapulse did you know china produces most of their nitrogen from coal. Not Natural Gas like us and most other countries. Coal is so cheap here that we even ship it to China. Getting any ideas?