Why do we need any wheat board at all?

[Jay-mo]

AdamSmith,
Personally, I would go with your last option.
I think you have to go with a voluntary wheat board because of the board-worshipers idea that it gets them more money.
That way, in an open market, it can prove to everyone how great it is or go broke and we can all have that deep-belly laugh!

[TOM4CWB]

Agstar77;

Clearly the risk management strategy 'single desk' directors/managers at the CWB has cost us $100's of millions per year of lost revenue. Informa got this right... even if the reasons for the losses can not be easily understood... because the CWB operates neither in a commercial manner nor transparently for profit loss analysis to be performed.

I would hope that the contingency fund losses... the negative basis... while US growers reap record positive basis rewards... should cause some reason for reflection by 'single desk' supporters.

The mess created by CWB 'pool' integrated risk management in volatile markets is massive.

Customers buying our grain are only too happy to hand us these losses... and the risk associated with them... and what have we earned in future personal relationships?

Nothing.

In the end... a system that encourages everyone to call each other idiots... and is based on the principal of taking your neighbour's grain... against their wishes... to profit personally... breeds the same attitude amongst those who purchase our CWB grains.

We MUST end this destructive stupid debate... Adam Smith... that is a certainty.

I am starting to wonder as well... if it is possible to have peace within our western CDN Ag communities... WITHOUT ending the CWB completely?

[vvalk]

Do we really need to pay "professionals" to carry over any stocks whatsoever. Durum got as high as $25 and wheat $24 on the futures and they want to carry over 3 million tonnes. Please will an CWB supporter explain this to me and answer if they could of sold their wheat and durum for this much would they have said no and kept a few bins for next year? I really when it comes down to it that is the real answer. Everyone has the right to do as they see fit. Numbers really in the end are irrevelant.

[parsley]

vvalk,


"Everyone has the right to do as they see fit."


That is the important debate. The real issue.

Farmers must have the right to sell what they grow. Without it, they have nothing.

Parsley

[Burbert]

CAUSE I HATE GRAIN COMPANIES AND RAILROADS! CAN'T STAND THEM, CAUSE THEY ARE THE SCUM OF THE EARTH. We need a farm organization like the board to represent us, at the table and look out for our interests, keep us afloat. That's it plain and simple, the open market sucks; Look at privatization in AB, lousy service, high prices, gouging and rip off prevail, etc, etc, etc.....

[furrowtickler]

Burbot - If you hate grain companies and railroads soo much you realy should get anouther occupation. We have no choice but to work with either. We are a grain exporting nation, with no option other than grain exporters and the rail to move grain. Think outside the box man, grow pulses, grains for feedlots, canary seed, mustard, whatever, there are options to avoid the "evil multinationals".

[silverback]

Most farmers I know would never, ever, ever, want a farm organization to "keep them afloat" !!!

What an ignorant statement.

Lead, Follow, or GET OUT OF THE WAY!

That is what true business people want.

[vvalk]

Burbert. I'm sorry but you really are an idiot. You never EVER have anything relavent or constructive to say. Just a guess but you must be part of that older generation that does not want to see any change. Either quit or modernize your farm. And by the way these big bad companies sell 1/2 the grain anyways and export for the CWB the other half. All the CWB is is a broker. Mind you a very expensive broker. A grain company could do what the board does with a dozen people or less.

[mbratrud]

Well Adam to answer your original question it would be scary...

[mbratrud]

Hi Burbert, I just heard of a guy looking for a few good men/women like you. Look up Kim Jong-il under North Korea sounds like you have a little in common.