Speaking of the CWB

[CptnObvious]

Web sites like the NFU and the Canadian Wheat Board Alliance have pages on how good the old CWB was, how proportionately less money we are getting for our grain now, and how transportation was so much better co-ordinated. Are there any right wing web sites that say how wonderful it is now?

[Braveheart]

I have argued this history stuff before. I'm not interested tonight.

What I want to hear about the CWB is, what are their bids? Any new programs? Do they have transportation logistics secured? Basically, what are they offering for competition?

[farmaholic]

A castrated bull can't "do business", they're in the process of growing a pair. If they have to rely on other bulls the help them do business, they will never be competitive.....

[JDGreen]

personally I think it's just fine... Will cash in on durum again this year. Thankfully no cwb to steal it for less than half its value this go round. There is nothing to debate. Just went thru company financials today. Funny how since the demise of the single desk my income has only gone one direction. Up up and away

[CptnObvious]

So, you guys are saying there are no sites?

[HFL]

The CWB graded some of our CWRS as feed, Paterson graded the same sample #2. CWB must think they still have the gun to our head.

[hobbyfrmr]

I did a quick internet search, this was the only thing I could find.

http://youtu.be/PHQLQ1Rc_Js

[Oliver88]

I have my doubts many farmers take the NFU seriously since they supported the "Idle No More"/Chief Teresa Spence gongshow.

[mbdog]

capn....there may have been during the debate, but its over. Dunno how or why all those involved... past, present and in the future....not bound by state controls would create freedom websites. Think you would just have to google ag or market opportunities and use your imagination. Good luck on your search.

[farmaholic]

Hobby: the Witch may be dead or at the very most casting a small shadow of it's previous self. But is has been replaced by a Troll. Will we be keen enough to outsmart the Troll and get to the other side to greener pastures?

[CptnObvious]

Theresa Spence was not part of Idle No More and as far as I know received no comment from the NFU. Idle No More tried to get native people involved in the world. How is that bad?

[Hopalong]

Some died in the wool NFU and wheat board supporters continue to heap abuse on the Harper government and minister Ritz for ending the monopoly.
The fact is that a Liberal or NDP government would have been under international pressure to do something to conform with trade rules.
Remember the board campaign against a new WTO agreement that threatened it.
Likely easier for this government to end the monopoly but it did the right thing from a trade perspective.
Whether we want to keep the board around in some form is another question.

[TOM4CWB]

Cpt,

" Idle No More tried to get native people involved in the world. How is that bad?"

Illegally blockading highways and rail, involving native people to take advantage of our 'law enforcement's" refusal to apply the laws of Canada that apply to everyone else... How was this bad? You are truly Obvious... CptObvious....

[CptnObvious]

Ritz has cost me tens of thousands of dollars. Why would I not chastise the little turd?
The CWB has been under pressure from foreign business interests for forty years. The courts have shown it to be a fair trader over a dozen times and responsible governments in the past have ignored the pressure( at no cost).
And the trade 'deals' the Cons have wrought? All the gains the Cons are bragging about are illusory. More beef to Europe? So what, we only export about half of our limit now. Increased GDP with CETA? Only if, as in the computer model the Cons used, Canada magically reaches 100% employment and the Europeans never increase production to serve their own market. And what sane person would sign a deal with China to gives their corporate interests authority over our own laws for a minimum of 31 years.
You knew, of course, that under Harper Canada's long standing international trade surplus has turned into a deficit.
The CWB was a single desk marketer. To have it in any other form is not to have it at all.

[bucket]

Ritz's advisors have been pretty quiet lately.