Marketing or selling?

[blackpowder]

Perhaps it illustrates the illusion we've been taught by all other self interested parties that we are more than the producers of a raw commodity.
Being told we're good marketers allows everyone no matter where they rank on the 'Give a shit' scale to feel a little more complacent.

[TOM4CWB]

Blackpowder,

A sows ear cannot be made into a silk purse... without an effective efficient supply and quality management procedure.

This means people in the 'value chain' MUST know what increases value... and how to implement a cost effective logistics system to return that increased and value (with appropriate reward for extra risk) to those who deserve these rewards for the management of that logistics supply system.

Not simple?

That is why it is often simplest to dump and cut our risk. Let someone else extract the extra value... and absorb the extra risk.

Hind sight is always 20/20!

[buzz]

Good discussion. Marketing is a longer term
approach if I remember my business courses.

We all could be doing a better job on both and
make more money.

[Burbert]

Marketeers are the chiselers that you meet
downtown in the coffee shop, that wanna
buy your grain cheap and are excellent
whinners and snivellers, they are greedy
young white guys who are uninformed about
most things. Real farmers are men who
sell grain and take care of farm business,
that take pride in feeding the world

[TOM4CWB]

Burbert;

What a PERFECT DISCRIPTION of the Second Floor of 423 Main in Winterpeg!!!!!!!!

The only ones better... reside on the 8th floor... and claim to be Gods gift to 'designated area' grain growers!!!

"Marketeers are the chiselers that you meet
downtown in the coffee shop, that wanna
buy your grain cheap and are excellent
whinners and snivellers"

[stubblejumper]

Most producers who want out of the CWB want to sell their product not market it.

[gregpet]

"Most producers who want out of the CWB want to sell their product not market it."

How do you know this stubble, are you psychic?