Jeff Nielsen CWB district 2 director candidate

[agstar77]

While I respect anyone who runs for a director position, I can't help but think his previous stance against the CWB will not be an asset. But who knows , maybe he will be turned to the Dark Side!

[Jeff Nielsen]

As I have asked prefer to answer questions one on one via emails, please write to jeff@jeff4cwb.ca
Bucket, I have printed your ideas off and will keep them with me. You got some good ones there that will have to be brought forward to the BOD for their considerations. I hope we have a new more progressive BOD and these ideas can be fully vetted and acted on.
Dduke(Bill) thanks for the congrats, I'll have to review our official trade policy , perhaps you can send me some more information on this.
In my trips to the WTO on behalf of grains, oilseed, pulse,beef and pork producers we fought our own internal battles that has divided this great country. This being our needs for free-er trade and supply management's need to maintain its status quo.
Jeff

[Jeff Nielsen]

Agstar
perhaps you need to visit my web site and read it. I am dedicated to choice marketing, and nothing will deter my goals of working towards that. Not just for the producers in district 2 - that for 10 years now elected a director committed choice - but for all producers of western Canada that want the same, a choice to market their own grains how ever they please.
Jeff

[agstar77]

So the CWB loses its control over farmer sales. How do you envision the free market working with what is essentially a grain broker? How will the brand integrity of Canadian grains be maintained or does it matter? Do we go for a free for all system as in the U.S.? Who guarantees payment and there is a real competitive market? Viterra basically wants all the market. Will grain companies work for better transport rates? If the U.S. decides they don't want you sending grain across the border individually, who will argue for you?

[parsley]

agstar wants his twenty-questions answered 'right now' before you even get elected, yet he doesn't seem to mind the CWB consistently explaining to the courts that the CWB has NO accountability to farmers, that they they are accountable only to the Board itself. Hmmm.

You'd think agstar would want to fix the corner post on his own corral before he turns his questions out.

Chatenay was the DA farmers' "go-to" guy that always had the patience and took the time to answer questions and I suspect Jeff, if you get elected, you'll get the same bulk of questions, and have already been swamped.

Parsley

[agstar77]

He doesn't have to answer any questions but perhaps the farmers in his district might consider these questions. Its nice to say we will give everybody choice but what's the plan? If these changes are made there is no going back that's it. So should we not plan for these changes and discuss options? As I understand it the previous rep did not distinguish himself at the board tables.

[parsley]

But the previous rep distinquished himself in the eyes of his district #2.

Count his votes.


And in the eyes of the rest of the choice-voters in the Designated Area who depended upon his solid principles to provide leadership and direction and dependability and focus, he is indeed distinguished.

Did you ever notice that the CWB's farmer polls show consistently less support for the CWB over the years of Chatenay's term, and therefore consistently reflect and support Chatenay's marketing-choice direction?

A Directorship was not a career stepping stone for Chatenay; he was in it for farmers. Each one of them thought so too. Each one, agstar.

Count his votes.

Parsley

[agstar77]

Easy to vote but much harder to make a positive contribution, if you are a one trick pony.

[parsley]

If the absence of agstar's-private-plan-in-the-hand is causing you a sleep-disorder, think oats, agstar.


Yes, oats.

I missed the reading the studies for oats, and in particular, the somewhat gray submission of "Marketing Plans 401".

I also missed the "Fifty Thousand Dollar CWB sponsored Applications for the Study of the Selling of Oats".

I'm presently trying to locate a reclamation booklet titled, "Sowing Wild Oats, One Hill at a Time."

Anyhow, without the above planning, the distinguished Directors realized oats would never sell.

Tonight, I gotta hang garlic bulbs over every doorway in the house to keep distinguished Directors out.

Parlsey

[parsley]

I can understand your view, as the CWB certainly has shown farmers their bag full of tricks.

However, some contributions are measured over a period of time.


Like...ah... not just the king owning land.....like ah....painting the Mona Lisa...like ....ah, farmers not being jailed for selling what they grow.

Those are gold-nugget contributions that will last the test of time.

You have different values, agstar.

Parsley