Captain Obvious how many years did you farm under the CWB? The fact all files destroyed kinda tells the tale. What has really hurt is the loss of the Wheat Poolls and those facilities.
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Protein payments non existent? Just sold some spring threshed feed wheat with 15.7 protein for $7.35/bushel. The elevator needed the protein. For what, I don't know, but I don't care.
I remember the good old days of the CWB, 3 bushel quota, waiting in line with a 3 ton truck. Picking up the check, barely enough to pay for groceries for the week.
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If you try to market wheat like you did when the cwb was around is a guarantee you'll put less in your pockets. If you adapted your likely winning or doing no worse. Times change and so does the skill set. It's definitely more work. Futures have done nothing but drop since 2012 excluding last springs blip.
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101, I am still to see any data from the other side but I will start with mine: The fed gov is being sued for $720 million missing after the disbursement of the CWB. Judges so far have denied the suit, not because the money isn't missing, but because it is unlikely to be proved 'unlawful' that it is missing. I have much more, what do you have?
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I don't care what the numbers are I am just glad its gone. Just the idea of a government agency taking control of something I produce at great risk is completely loony!!
I will make my own marketing mistakes with my grain Thanks.
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There was no provision in the CWB Act for jail time. There was, however, in the Customs Act. The suit is being filed by the 'Friends of the Canadian Wheat Board.' They will better explain the missing money than me but it still remains that we farmers were paid absolutely nothing. The CWB had the protection of law but the government marketed our grain no more then than it does now. Our elected directors ran the show.
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Originally posted by seldomseen View PostI don't care what the numbers are I am just glad its gone. Just the idea of a government agency taking control of something I produce at great risk is completely loony!!
I will make my own marketing mistakes with my grain Thanks.
Government Agency using our wheat for political leverage and gifting it to foreign regimes at farmer expense, that's what CWB meant to me. Guess where the government would be gifting it today. I knew a CWB trader who told me that they would throw a gala ball when they "sold" grain for under the cost of production. If they would have opened the books, there would probably have been a revolution.
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the cwb, an idea just so fuking wonderful that it was mandatory by federal law for western canadian farmers to have a permit book before we could legally sell any HRSW.
all you need to know is that ralf gudail threw western farmers in jail for doing exactly the same thing that eastern farmers took for granted. may the SOB rot in hell
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