Canadian Cereal Commission

[TOM4CWB]

Parsley,

IF it is a refundable org. that folks who are unhappy with performance can take back funds... what is so horrible about that?

[parsley]

Handing over legislated marketing power to government is not an act of sanioty if you believe in the free enterprise system.

Mind you after reading Alberta's property rights bill, why would I ever assume farmers in Alberta are even remotely in favor of free enterprise?

Pars

[Happytrails]

Pars, it is not fair to paint us with the Land Stewardship Act brush. It certainly didn't come from us and if we get hold of who is responsible they will pay. NEXT ELECTION!

I am glad our beef check-off is refundable. No opinion on a grain levy. HT

[charliep]

Just curious why the world commission. If it was called a council and was made up of the whole supply chain, would this change peoples attitude.

From there, what would the duties of this organizations?

Sales as in the CWB?

Market development as in the Pulse Canada and Canola Council? US Wheat Growers Association?

Customer service as in the GRL/GIGI?

Coordinating research as in the Grain Research Development Corporation as in Australia?

[wd9]

Oops, should have been council.

[wd9]

Pars said: "Handing over legislated marketing power to government is not an act of sanioty if you believe in the free enterprise system."

What on earth are you talking about? This has nothing to do with government. Its an industry wide council to promote cereals, run and funded by the industry, if it wants it. No clones, no duplication. Has nothing to do with government.

If flax growers don't like what they are doing, take your money back. Its called voting with your wallet. The best kind of voting out there.

[gustgd]

Great Idea
Where would you start?

Keeping everything under the provinces is a good idea, legislation is already in place. Trying to get new legislation drafted, passed, proclaimed would take longer than I think anyone who desires progress wants.

Problem as I see it and FarmRanger has already identified is the left controls cereals through the CWB.
The list of left leaning groups is long even if they are all the same people.
CWB
NFU
Alberta soft white white wheat
commission
the CFA and their spin offs WRAP, Keystone, APAS.

On the right we have The Western Canadian Wheat Growers, Barley Growers, Alberta winter cereals commission, Grain Growers of Canada.


It seems like many of the other commodity groups like the pulse boards, Canola commissions, Oats commissions some The other Winter cereals groups are all sympathetic but don't want to get tied up in the war that would ensue.

There's more but I'll wait.

[parsley]

Not done with you yet, wd......lol, but then you didn't expect I would be, did you now? LOLOLOL Want to have a peaceful Christmas or a good scrap? You seem like you'd be a little more fun when you're feisty. LOLOLOLOL Pars

[wd9]

Scrap would be good, but what i was really after on this post was ideas and solutions for our dwindling cereals industry given other crops understand the concept of: if you sit around and whine, nothing happens, only more whining.

[charliep]

Perhaps Parsley can help us understand how research and development should be funded to create a perenial wheat variety for the organic industry with applications to conventional wheat.