Who speaks for Sask. pulse growers

[grower99]

In the Nov.15 issue of the Western
Producer(pg 14) it appears that Pulse
Canada's Executive Director, Gord Bacon,
has given his approval to the recent
suggested changes to the Canadian Grain
Commission. One significant change will
be the necessity of farmers to use
insurance as a way of securing their
delivery to a grain terminal,
processor... Several years ago, the
Saskatchewan Pulse Growers had lengthy
discussions and surveys to determine the
best way of making sure that they would
get paid for their deliveries. As a
result of their efforts, the vast
majority of Saskatchewan farmers wanted
to make sure that the companies buying
their grain were bonded. It appears that
Gord Bacon and Pulse Canada now support
an insurance program to safeguard farmer
deliveries; this was rejected by
Saskatchewan pulse growers several years
ago. When did Pulse Canada's Board give
Mr.Bacon the direction to support an
insurance scheme over the existing bond
requirement? I don't believe that he
received that go ahead nor do I believe
he speaks for the majority of
Saskatchewan pulse growers. Saskatchewan
pulse growers are represented on Pulse
Canada Board. Did they give their
permission for him to speak in favour of
these changes which will cost us for
these insurance contracts? Maybe Pulse
Canada has become too politicized and
has forgotten who supplies a large
percentage of their funding!

[dave4441]

Pulse CAnada has gotten political?? What about a group of directors of SPG reccommending particular directors in the upcoming SPG election?? I thought people where supposed to come to a board independently??? I thought people where supposed to act independent on a board. Refunable levies will be the result of this kind of colusion amd i am starting to believe this more and more.

[dave4441]

And to be quite frank, it would really be nice to see all farmers on the board of Sask Pulse Growers then breeders who recieve farmer investment dollars. Talk about conflict of interest!

[parsley]

Every single pulse checkoff dollar should be
refundable.

There should not be one single bloody
compulsory non-refundable checkoff pulse dollar
in this day and age.

Disgusting process and disgusting Board of
Directors, and disgusting legislation
Parsley.

[Burbert]

In Albertie, there is probably some phoney
bs organization, that takes a refundable
checkoff, every bushel of pulses sold.
The money goes into the phoney
organization which claims to do research
and market development, butt in fact its a
political slush fund, used to re-elect
progressive c's provincially and
federally. Heil Harper

[grower99]

Can anyone please answer the questions I
raised regarding who speaks for Sask pulse
growers regarding these changes to the
CGC? Does the Pulse Canada Board support
an insurance program over the existing
situation where companies have bonds which
ensure farmers will get paid if a company
goes broke?

[dave4441]

I am not sure of what the board of Pulse Canada has to say on the issue, but if you read the article it states that Gord spoke. Doesnt say what he said or Pulse Canada's position on the change from the current CGC bonding as the discussion was about the insurance scheme AFTER the government changed to an insurance based system.

This is like debating the loss of the CWB on Nov 20, 2012. Its over and done. I have to admit that i hate the current system. Does the government force farmers to pay for a bond to ensure that fertilizer dealers get paid? That's the same situation as the current bonding system and when companies go broke there seems to never be enough dollars to pay the grower payables anyway. Hopefully the new system is more bankable.

[cottonpicken]

HMMMM..if only we had a CWB-Canadian Western Brokerage

HMMMM..an umbrella brokerage system for farmers,owned by
farmers,run for farmers

HMMM...protecting buyers and sellers

HMMM...

[dave4441]

And yes, Pulse Canada does speak for the grower organizations in Canada on federal issues and i also cant imagine that he would be deviating from the position of those organizations.

[cottonpicken]

Just incase anyone is to stupid to realize that"it"
would be nothing like the old system go outside and
punch yourself in the nuts.

It would work perfectly.

[cottonpicken]

Seriously,does anyone have a clue what we could have
accomplished,if we would have done this?

[grower99]

Can we get a copy of Pulse Canada's
speaking notes as the WP article by Barry
Wilson says that witnesses who spoke were
largely in favour of the proposed changes.
These must be readily available.