Why So Many Farmers Miss the Wheat Board

[Braveheart]

Forage, I've never worried about the general consensus of anything. Farms and management styles are all different. The one size fits all of your utopian agrarian dream would never work. You can't contain individuality. Revolution ensues.

[Braveheart]

The CWB would never listen to any suggested changes. They were always right.

Tstep, you're out of step. Marketing and rail logistics we don't have now? That's what the grain cos do. That's what they did even under the CWB regime. There just isn't an extra layer of interference there.

The CWB is still around. Use it if you wish. In fact do you have any of their bids to share? Are they competitive or do you care? Perhaps you only really care about the collective style farming the CWB forced on us all.

[HFL]

Forage Farmer complains about people hurling insults, then tetsp says right on, and does the same thing.

[mbdog]

CWB was what it was. It worked within and was caught up within the confines of broader political economic system...a system that was truly broken and abused.
Today's/tommorrows CWB? Dunno how its going to shake out. The theoretical mode/potential, if given the room and the reins, has never been exercised.
I'm hoping it becomes a truly valid competitor.
Its good the old CWB is gone, and hanging on to its past is folly, and serves only to divide western Canada on political lines/ideology using prehistoric policy and lies.
Whether we own any of it...can lay any legitimate claim?...I'm not going to argue that.
Canadian ownership chance/opportunity vs foreign?...producers might be owed a chance at that.
Just hoping for more competition.....

[mbdog]

Can't believe I'm adding to chuck chucks thread....No chuck chuck...I don't support you.

[agchat]

foragefarmer, what you said is so true. Farmers will never be able to work together. Some are just to knowledgable (or thing they are) than others. Only there opinion is right and is all that matters. Like I have been told before, that is why small town hockey teams have died. Its hard to find six farmers to agree and get along together.

[furrowtickler]

agchat - really ?? Small towns are disappearing because there are less farmers - take a fukin look around !!
Your neighbor that farmed 2000 ac 15 years ago is doing 6000 ac and some are doing 15-20,000....

[agchat]

furrow you are kinda like Sheldon on Big Bang, hard time figuring out sarcasm.

[tstep]

Really the grain co didn't do a very good job of logistics last year! And grain hasn't been moving at any great speed this year. The CWB had lots of changes in pricing options that were working.

[furrowtickler]

ah, quick read and 4 rum, gotcha... I wish I could get paid as much as Sheldon per episode or per post..