Additional WGRF Checkoffs Suggested

[bucket]

Railways can't go over the cap with reduced production. They hail it as great thing if the railways don't over the cap, they moved less grain and put grain movement on the back burner.

If they hadn't every elevator from regina to vancouver/thunder bay would be empty waiting for farmers to deliver.

[checking]

You're talking about rule playing, bucket.

I'm talking about a DEAL where I get to pay to renovate a U of S rapid growth lab. I'm not even issued a tax receipt for my expropriated funding, but bless his heart, gustgd did offer a thank you.

A tax receipt would blow up WGRF argument that it would be too expensive to trace the money stream. We can't have that.

Meanwhile, my farm building project is cut back.

[ajl]

I hate this ever expanding list of checkoffs. It seems every one feels they are entitled to my money. Consumers are the ones that benefit from improved crop yeilds not the farmer. More available=lower price.

[bluefargo]

Tom
Why would you opt out? Just curious

[TOM4CWB]

bluefargo,

WGRF gets the some $60M... and the next thing I see is they want to expand funding. They can't even effectively spend what they have now.

Booze research... the list goes on and on... the most profitable co's (Malt Hard Liquor) are getting big money from me. The tonnes used are very limitied and market effect next to nothing.

[parsley]

One of the reasons public funding of farmer-valuable projects, (ie Harmon oats) is no longer being feasible or being pursued, is because biotech is aggressively swallowing all available funding.

Lobbyists are settled in Parliament Hill like bedbugs.

There is safety in supporting BOTH public and private funding

Farmers themselves can dedicate more dollars to public funding by reducing funding to biotech.

Would farmers prefer allotting more money to public funding which governments might them match? Pars

[Burbert]

To heck with all checkoffs. They beat us and got the Gold medal last night in Jr Hockey. No benefit fer the Comedian farmer to support any/all checkoff programs. After all, its our money, and who wants to donate to gov't er business more that once a year?