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Why So Many Farmers Miss the Wheat Board

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  • chuckChuck
    Senior Member
    • Dec 2006
    • 12794

    Why So Many Farmers Miss the Wheat Board

    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/rob-magazine/why-so-many-farmers-miss-the-wheat-board/article21810531/
  • tweety
    Senior Member
    • Nov 2014
    • 3059

    #2
    Because they are dumb and lazy?

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    • Braveheart
      Senior Member
      • Feb 2001
      • 3257

      #3
      I don't know where these so called "so many" farmers are? Personal care homes? Retired in Phoenix? Mental institutions? Lurking on AgriVille? Moving to Belmont MB? Phantoms or fantasy.

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      • blackpowder
        Senior Member
        • Feb 2010
        • 9267

        #4
        Second time this article presented on here in week. Not badly written.
        Your time might be better spent charging windmills or whales somewhere else chuckles.

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        • hobbyfrmr
          Senior Member
          • Feb 2008
          • 3178

          #5
          LOL! Tilting at windmills. Don Quixote.

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          • wilagro
            Senior Member
            • Apr 2000
            • 2761

            #6
            Yep, a Marketing Agency for farmers...what an excellent idea.
            I wonder if a new modern Wheat Board would fly if it was organized and implemented without government control.

            Imagine the possibilities of controlling your own destiny instead of taking the prices offered by the few grain traders still out to rip you off at every opportunity.

            Nah!!! wouldn`t work...too many `smart` producers who can outsmart them thar big boys...you betcha.
            ====

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            • HFL
              Senior Member
              • Dec 2006
              • 371

              #7
              I don't miss the monopoly. I wanted choice including a voluntary CWB. That's what we have and I am happy about it.

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              • cottonpicken
                Senior Member
                • Apr 2006
                • 6993

                #8
                Wish somebody could have put up an arguement about it becoming a brokerage,kick out the bad stuff keep the good.

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                • foragefarmer
                  Senior Member
                  • Mar 2014
                  • 3489

                  #9
                  Braveheart and Tweety

                  You two are perfect examples of why farmers can never work together to accomplish something greater for all Agriculture.

                  Someone posts on Agriville with regard to the CWB and the best the two of you can come up with is hurl insults like a couple of schoolyard bullies. There's that better than the next guy attitude shinning through as usual.

                  I'm sure there are, and were many farmers who did support the CWB and may still support the CWB in some sort of form. I'm willing to bet some very successful farmers at that.

                  It's easy to yap here on Agriville when you know the general consensus is anti CWB.

                  The grain companies, and RR need not worry about farmers ever pulling together to make changes that would be in the betterment for all farmers with posters like you two.

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                  • tstep
                    Senior Member
                    • Nov 2011
                    • 394

                    #10
                    Right on forage. Small minds don't have a lot of constructive criticism. CWB needed changes but they did a lot of behind the scenes with marketing and rail logistics that we don't have now.

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