Agriculture policy depends on which farmers Ottawa is wooing

[Braveheart]

Supply management is as far from "Soviet style" ag policy as you can get. Only the rich need apply. Totally captive market. A true Capitalist dream.

[Happytrails]

For the nth time the CWB on the table not "supply management". Neither is defensible but we have to address them individually. Better to gore a few oxen than thousands of grain growers. HT

[gregpet]

This is just my opinion, but maybe the government
realizes that milk and poultry are profitable for their
producers under the current system while the
former CWB was not profitable and an impediment
to growth and success to prairie wheat and barley
farmers.

Still, at least Integrity_Farmer and I can agree that
these two cannot be compared since we have shown
you that already.

[freewheat]

I wonder if chuck chuck, Ahem
korneychuk, can tell us the names of all
the dairy farmers who are upset at being
"forced" into supply management.

And then tell us if he can find guys who
want the cwb to die and get lost.

That my friends, is the difference. 100%
of dairy farmers want to be in that
system. With WESTERN wheat and barley,
not so much.

So to the cwb lovers, korneychuk, and
flaman, Harper is listening to the
farmers in each sector. That is the
entire difference. If the cwb was loved
by all, I doubt he would touch it.

[checking]

In their time as government and wantabee governors the Liberals and NDP supported the soviet style farm marketing boards of Canada, and in the same time frame supported the freedom and free market choice of non-designated area farmers. Is that hypocrical? Is that an eastern vote getting tactic that doesn't ruffle feathers or contented milk cows, or is that just good politics?

The Conservatives have now pushed the freedom line a little more forward for agriculture, but not into the realm of marketing boards for dairy and poultry, and chuckchuck thinks that is hypocritical. Well, I'd call it progress to where it all should be headed.

The real issue here is that Chuckchuck's shade of red writing isn't enough that this is all about a philosophical debate between him and agriville. I believe he should man up on what part of his farm business advantage he believes he will lose if the freedom front is progressed in the DA.

[TOM4CWB]

Checking,

The amusing/sick part of this is that for organic growers (like Flaman) that the CWB has largely exempted from the 'Single Desk' and had already given 'market choice' to...

The only difference will be CWB saleries paid/picked/extracted from commercial grain growers pockets... will not be paid to CWB Directors' bank accounts.

[sumdumguy]

If Canada wants to be included in world trade
negotiations, all of these trade distorting boards
will have to be dismantled. I predict that the
country will have no choice but to remove the
privileged status of supply managed farmers,
votes or no votes.

[parsley]

And the complete part of Tom's chronicle is that
not only for organic growers (like Flaman) that
the CWB has largely exempted from the 'Single
Desk' and had already given 'market choice' to...
But ALSO the seed growers have been enjoying
market choice for decades.

Organic growers publicly attacked the CWB.
Seed growers quietly purred their way through
complimentary CWB licensing.

Lest we forget. Pars

[Fransisco]

Looking at the title here I'd have to say, <b>WOW...</b> someone has figured out that the conservatives are actually <b>POLITICIANS!</b> Who knew!?! In related news scientists have discovered water is still wet, grass is still green, and you can talk about supply management as much as you want but the wheat board monopoly is still toast.

[bluefargo]

As a seed grower I can assure you that I have not been "enjoying marketing choice for decades". Every bushel of commercial wheat and malt barley I grow must, by law, be sold through the Canadian Wheat Board. Seed, which is a specialized product operates under a different set of rules as it should. Being a specialized product organic production operates under a different set of rules as well.
In less than a year this discussion will be irrelevant anyway.