The Conservative Corpse

[jensend]

i'd rather be blind than stupid!

[parsley]

I guess you just can't comprehend some of what you read. common malady.

[jensend]

don't worry parsley, we'll get it explained to you if you try too. i didn't say anything about equality - you go back and check. i said profits have to exist and be distributed through the value chain otherwise the chain breaks down (weakest link, if you will). if you want to argue that go ahead. the nfu (an organization i thought was stupid for thirty years) explains very well what i have been thinking for the last fifteen years in some of their analysis papers. if you can't understand what i am giving you read their research and maybe the light will go on.

[Fransisco]

LOL- The born again marxist's at the NFU will save us all.

[jensend]

well fransisco, all i can say is read their papers. they're on the website i think. it surprised the heck out of me that they put numbers to what i thought the situation was in markets and value chains. kind of embarassing really but they documented what's been going on. a bunch of socialists stripping naked so-called free enterprise capitalism!

[FarmRanger]

I don’t know jensend, most of what I’ve read from the NFU is adversarial to our industry partners, ignores economic reality, and belittles anyone who disagrees with them. A majority of Alberta farmers would like an open market, but their wishes are ignored by the NFU who would rather ridicule the Alberta gov’t for trying to accommodate that majority.

In contrast, in the Canadian canola industry, there is more of an atmosphere of trying to make the pie bigger for everyone, instead of worrying about extracting a larger share of what they are helping become a shrinking pie. We had a record canola crop last year in a world market that we are a large player, and yet because of the work farmer and industry partners have done to grow the market, we continue to enjoy relatively good prices. It’s no coincidence that there is a trend toward farmer income increasingly coming from canola versus single desk crops.

It’s a shame that all the CWB rhetoric (on both sides actually) and adversarial rhetoric on behalf of the NFU keeps any kind of cooperation between farmers and wheat industry partners from enlarging the wheat “pie” in Canada to the betterment of everyone.

[parsley]

I have a question for you, jensend. Does the following represent your thoughts?

"losses should be distributed through the value chain. if it isn't the whole system breaks down."

Pars

[Hopperbin]

NFU funded by the CWB. Says they promote local foods. Click on Find FNA Local Food and only one farm in Ont. come up.

[Hopperbin]

NFU local food sorry.

[jensend]

parsley you're so good at being irrelevant. if there are losses through the system the system is very likely to break down if the losses are ongoing. duh! you like to play wordgames when you don't have a good argument. go play on your blog.