CWB Single Desk vs Grain Companies

[PrairieSodBuster]

At the risk of being labelled a "CWB Supporter" again. I will say this that if the CWB disappears their overhead will just transition over to the grain companies under the guise of "making necessary improvements to benefit the farmer". You'll still make the same, but shareholders dividends will go up. So I issue you all a challenge the supporters and detractors alike. Lets open it wide open, lets do in the CWB and lets run our farms like businesses or family farms exactly the way we all want individually. Survival of the fittest, you can produce anything, sell anything (except Pot of course)anywhere, anytime...you are completely on your own. No fuel subsidies, your farm trucks and Super "B" need commercial plates,licenses and insurance and you get no support what so ever from any government...because you are free marketers and you don't need anyone. Lets end the Department of Agriculture Federally and Provincially. Lets really make it free! Lets see what happens, lets just try it out for a couple of years. I believe I can survive either way, but I suspect there are a lot out there who hide behind "the family farm" moniker who won't and their farms will become part of a Hutterite Colony, black or "white", or something more profitable like a golf course community. Maybe it's just time to let the chips fall where they might if only just to end this eternal debate that has been going on forever. However then the blowhards will just find something new to bitch about!

[jdepape]

Just to be clear, this thread started with a discussion about the single desk (which is only one aspect of the CWB). Nobody's talking about getting rid of the CWB.

This is what I see as the unfortunate part of this debate - it doesn't seem to matter what you say, it often gets misinterpreted as either FOR or AGAINST the existence of the CWB. The CWB even promotes it - if you say anything about any aspect of the CWB, however small, they paint you as a "nay-sayer" or "CWB basher".

[PrairieSodBuster]

At this stage I am indifferent to the CWB, if it stays okay, if it doesn't oh well. I'm not "picking" on anyone. I'm just saying that if you really want to be free then you need to cut the government out of the equation completely, because if you accept anything from them, you are not really a free marketer. Really though how can you believe the CWB would survive in your idea of a free market. They'd be just another player with greatly diminished resources. Furthermore if you feel that the CWB has no value then why should it exist. It's like getting partially pregnant...you can't. There is lots wrong with the CWB, but if no one wants to fix it to make it work better for the farmer and if no one believe it is a credible support for the farmer, then why keep it...lets go straight to true "Free Market". We are all very capable of finding our own customers and getting the best prices for our grain who needs the CWB?