Minister Ritz Supports Open, Competitive Grain Market.

[parsley]

Princess Deana that runs overtop the CWB Directors is a fast-talker but the poor girl can't add. Cash Plus should have been named CashMinus and then farmers would be content.

Every time a CashMinus transaction goes through, the CWB slips a little of the farmers' cash into their pension plans, their wages, exercise rooms, sauna passes, passes in the sauna, and personal time funding.


Kerching. Kerching.

Farmers don't mind her shaving their cheques: rather, it's the misnomer that upsets the farm community, wouldn't you agree?

Call it CashMinus and take what you need.

Parsley

[FarmRanger]

Well, before cashplus, there was only one buyer, but now there’s marketing choice, you know, like what they know we wanted through surveys and such. But now, there is vast improvement because instead of a single buyer who doesn’t have to compete for our barley, now we have one buyer instead. So I’m sure that will improve things immensely.

You aren’t far off the mark parsley, in that there will now be more administration required for the same barley. Higher costs to handle the same barley, and somehow, this leaves more money in farmers pockets!

Truly astonishing. “Penn and Teller” wouldn’t be able to figure this one out.
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[agstar77]

I see in L.webber's letter , A. Olberg believes the new Barley deal should be considered. Interesting.

[parsley]

Wonder if the CWB Board of Directors' insurance policy costs more? Who pays?

Kaching. Kaching.

Wonder if the per diems are up, waaaayy up, Mr. Dressup Agstar.Who pays?

Kaching. Kaching.


Wonder if Directors trips to WTO and Ottawa have increased. Who pays?

Kaching. Kaching.

Oberg better promote kaching, kaching unless he is prepared to spend his own farm income on director expenses.

Kaching. Kaching.

Tables CW Directors for 2008 Liberal Fundraisers.

Kaching. Kaching.

Good thing Priness Deane told Oberg about CashMinus.

Parsley

[TOM4CWB]

Agstar77,

What is so awful about the system ABB is using in Australia... for those who think pooling is a great way to sell their barley?
Pool 1 Oct 1/07

$435/t Malt

$415/t Feed

This is a true dual market system... proof the CWB is blowing smoke in our faces.

Do the CWB Directors think we are just plain stupid? Ritter has to think so... or he would not have signed that letter!

Only people in a power drunken stupor... could be so far off the mark!

Don't they realise they are in flat out self destruction mode?

[agstar77]

T4, you have decided that Al isn't as sharp as you thought,because he disagree's with your view? Or has he been corrupted by the big bad Board?

[agstar77]

I think Ritter took a cue from Hillary and tired to have a tear in his eye with his statements "just give it a chance" " it is what producers told us they wanted"
"why or why won't you all just give us a chance to prove that we are the best thing since sliced bread"??? Sob weep sob!!
ok he almost got me, ..........
Fat chance !

OK barley farmers its in our hands, do we actually want this or not?
If like me and this makes no sense at all then call your MP, call your Director, call your maltster or grain co and demand a contract from them for next years production! Lets take barley back into our control not the CWB's
Call the CWB's bluff, all they are trying to do is wear down the trade and the maltsters. By not allowing them to do any forward contracting to their customers after Aug 1/08 they (the CWB) is jepardizing sales, strong prices back to barley farmers and risking farmers planting less acres and forcing our maltsters to go else where for their needs or worse yet closing their doors.
What value does the CWB have if it strangles the life out of our end users here in Canada or the grain trade for making sales of their own?
Then again how far would the CWB go to break these maltsters, grain companies into submission? What value does that bring back to my farm?
Speak up barley farmers, let them hear you loud and clear, let Ritz here you loud and clear. That will give him the final push to do what is right.
I don't want to see Ritter cry any more!
Erik

[charliep]

agstar77

While you have tom4cwb thinking, maybe you can help me understand why the program is being announce in 2008 and not 2003 when the issues confronting the malting industry really came to a head after the drought of 2002 (preceeded by the drought of 2001 in southern Alta.). Mr. Oberg seemed to indicate in the webcast this is not a result of the prososal to remove barley from the single desk but rather listening to what farmers want. If this were the case why wasn't it done 3 or 4 years ago and the program announced Wednesday for durum?

[agstar77]

The mills of the gods grind slowly.

[parsley]

Since the minds of the Single-Desk Directors don't grind at all, maybe every farmer needs to make sure Princess Deane's staff earn their keep.

20,000 calls per day for two weeks solid, to the CWB, demanding they listen to farmers, might cause them to note the phone is ringing.

Parsley