News: MB Minister Voices Concerns Over The Dismantling of the Canadian Wheat Board.

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MINISTER VOICES CONCERNS
OVER THE DISMANTALING OF THE CANADIAN WHEAT BOARD

Agriculture Food and Rural Initiatives Minister Stan Struthers today expressed his opposition to the federal governments' decision to dismantle the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) and committed to continue to push the federal government to reverse its decision.

"This is not the way to do business with farmers and their assets. We believe in working with farmers and listening to what they have to say, and they have clearly spoken; they want the CWB to remain intact," said Struthers. "We have made our position clear from the very beginning. We support the farmers' right to decide the future of their own gain marketing agency. I encourage all members of the legislature to join me to continue to fight on behalf of farmers and push the federal government to reverse its plan."

The minister noted the CWB is very important to Manitoba's economy, providing grain growers with a reliable marketing agency for their wheat, barley and durum. The CWB head office employs over 400 people in Winnipeg for a combined total of 2,500 direct and indirect jobs in the province. Last year, its gross revenues were among the highest in its history at $5.2 billion. It also is the single biggest user of the Port of Churchill, shipping 600,000 tonnes of wheat last year alone.

"These are some trying times for our agricultural producers as they are dealing with flooded farmland and the stresses of getting a crop in on time. It truly is shameful the federal government would add another load to farmers' already overflowing plates."

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[JDGreen]

oh boohoo .. wa wa wa !! If theres one thing i care less about its job security for anyone. The only certainty of job security I get is from good management. Something the CWB knows nothing about.

[ProFarmer]

Ritz knows i will help handing out the pink slips...All Struthers is worried about is well paid usless NDP jobs...

[FarmRanger]

<i>"We support the farmers' right to decide the
future of their own gain marketing agency"</i>

We'd have that even without the single desk.

What we currently don't have is the freedom to
choose our grain marketing agency.

[Fransisco]

Struthers is a hypocrite! He's got some nerve talking about "listening" to farmers after what he did to the hog farmers in Manitoba with the moratorium on building new barns.

[BTOfarmallll]

Fran, you kin thank The Hutts fer the Moratorium on New Hog Barns in this Once Great Province. Way they run their operations, stock piles of Shit 10 feet away from ditches/waterways, Spreading Liquid Shit right up to the ditch, Algae growing in the ditch from Shit, they are polluting The Ditches everywhere where it all starts & its down right sickening, bunch of pigs, No thats an insult, bunch of blood sucking rodents who are destroying the lands our Fore Fathers Broke........

[a2farms]

Stanley will be out of a job before his friends at the Board will be so lets not get too worried about his "concerns"!

[charliep]

[URL="http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/episode/2011/05/31/canadian-wheat-board-sales/"]The Current[/URL]

[Wheatking]

Pretty rich for Bill Hetland a seed grower with a
large retail outlet to be defending the board on
the current. They should ask some one with
skin in the game, he has none.

[Wheatking]

Pretty rich for Bill Hetland a seed grower with a
large retail outlet to be defending the board on
the current. They should ask , or talk to some
one with skin in the game, he has none.

[tipsy]

I wonder if Hetland would feel the same way if he had to go thur the buy back program to resell his own seed wheat and barley. Bloody hypocrite!

[Braveheart]

I'm not that old, but does memory serve that there was once someone named Forrest Hetland that was a commissioner or chief commissioner of the board?

[Wheatking]

That would be Bill Hetlands father. I thought
since he has an education in economics, runs
his own grain business outside of the board he
would be at the very least indifferent .


So does the cwb give the cbc the names of
people they should talk to. Where do they find
these people.

[Braveheart]

The CWB does indeed have a list of board friendly farmers. There is no doubt that socialist witch Anna Maria Tremonti has asked for names off the list.

[charliep]

For what it is worth, I thought Kevin Bender did a good job of explaining why an open market will benefit farmers. Perhaps the best process forward is to keep highlighting the business case for an open market for wheat and how the CWB might fit into this new world.