Eat Crow!!!

[smallguy]

For those a few years ago that were so much in favor of the Crow Rate to be banished, remind me again why? I still think that 1.00 a bushel would of looked pretty good in my pocket. Refresh my memory please!!

[Hopperbin]

The idea I believe was to value add here instead of promoting to ship offshore raw product. Myself I think it was the right thing to do, pocket book may think otherwise.

[Hopperbin]

How do you come by 1 dollar per bushel?

[BreadWinner]

CWB should have flown with the crow and we would see allot more value added in wheat, instead we have zero.

[Kodiak]

small guy. Do you remember 3 bushel per acre quotas? Topping off at 6 or 9 for the crop year? Ever notice those government purchased hopper cars? About 20,000 of them. And CWB cars. Who paid for those?

[smallguy]

My personal feelings: You can talk value added and all the other possible points, but once again farmers being the short term thinkers we are, all we saw were dollar signs on our brain. a chance to pay off debt, or buy a quarter or two of land with that money. Oh ya, i do remember the 3-6 quotas, i do believe that also when our American friends had bushels upon bushels piled on the ground with no sales at all.

[BreadWinner]

Smallguy, you have been around a long time. I hope you are around long enough to see how great things will be when the CWB is gone as well. Im sure you will still be casting your ballot for the CWB in the old folks home. No more wheat or barley on my farm till this dinosaur is dead.

[smallguy]

Breadwinner:
You must be new here. I have said many times on Agriville before, that I HAVE NOT supported the wheat board for years.
Oh!! only the open minded people would have remembered that on here.

[Fransisco]

I'm with hopper, how did you come up with $1/bu?

The way I remember it the crow subsidy went straight to the railroads.

[smallguy]

That is exactly what the crow was. After it was terminated the railroads raised there price 1.00 a bushel to compensate for the lose of government subsidy. Now the big question is: it was a huge taxpayers bill, and whether it would of continued, I have my doubts.