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[cchurch]

Who said anything about being negative.

I love paying $9 per pound for canola seed.

I love having to haul grain 100's of miles by road instead of rail.

I love paying what ever Agrium wants to charge for fertilizer.

It's all great.

Where can I sign up for your next gimmick to decrease my bottom line?

[gregpet]

"Where can I sign up for your next gimmick to decrease my bottom line?"

Sign a CWB permit book, deliver your grain and hope for the best

[Fransisco]

Start growing durum. Then dig yourself a big hole to bury it in cause the CWB won't take it.

[bucket]

And lets not forget those things happened while the cwb, the farmers advocate, stood idly by because they were busy getting famers arrested.

How about wheat seed, that we pay the research costs on, costing 20 bucks a bushel.

How about the fact that the cwb can not exist without grain companies so the cwb allows them to tear out elevators. The cwb was pretty quiet on elevator consolidation.

[JDGreen]

cchurch your points have nothing to do with MARKETING GRAIN.. I agree with what your saying but we as farmers have this backwards. Buying at retail selling at wholesale. We need to change this. Step one is to axe the board. There is no other way.

[agstar77]

Better Western Canada? More Mega farms ,fewer farmers less retail competition, greater debt, abandoned communities. This is your idea of improvement?

[JDGreen]

Agstar the CWB WILL NOT SAVE THE FAMILY FARM.. IT IS CURRENTLY DESTROYING IT. Once again I hear what you are saying, but the wheatboards crap performance is one of the biggest contributing factors to the dismantling of the family farm. Fear based support is what the board relies on, so carry on.

[Kodiak]

You're bang on JD. Just like marketing boards have saved the family dairy farm or poultry producer. How many are there left in Saskatchewan? Not many. My guess is less than 100. Just a few multi-millionaires left with their politically based privilege, self-indulgent pricing system, and artificial barriers to entry.

[agstar77]

Neither the CWB or the open market is there to save the family farm. They are there to market grain. One is there to make money for their investors the other to provide service at cost. The future is already written in stone and unfortunately the family farm is not a important part of it.

[JDGreen]

Agstar I do not disagree with that statement. But it would then hold true that a vast majority of board supporters are fighting for survival of a lifestyle. That also has nothing to do with marketing grain, and becomes increasingly difficult to sell to tax payers supporting farm programs.