Ritz to Sask Ag Hall of Fame

[CptnObvious]

His weak trade deals have gained us nothing and the end of the CWB has cost us $2/bushel. No single person has done as much harm to Sask agriculture as Gerry Ritz. Even goofy's C tax only costs 5 cents/bu.

[TASFarms]

Maybe if they opened the books to see where all the money went. It sure wasn’t returned to the farm.

[Sheepwheat]

2 bucks a bushel? Where is your proof? Or maybe you enjoyed sitting with binfulls of wheat, and selling it in ten cent increments over 18 months?

[bucket]

If Gerry Ritz had any vision at all with agriculture ....farmers wouldn't be in the position of begging again....when the programs don't work...

His own office bureaucrat that is now the Alberta AG Minister is asking the federal government to review BRMs that he and Ritz phucked up....

Anyone that thinks Yerry Ritz belongs in the Hall of Fame anywhere is blinded by ideology...because he had zero vision for agriculture....

read the article about a young guy with proven results that hit a rough spot....

The answer can't always be """"too bad so sad"""".

[bucket]

If the only claim to fame of Yerry is getting rid of the CWB ...not sure its should be a qualifier for Hall of Fame...

There is still plenty he didn't do with regards to the "open" market...

1. Reporting
2. Transparency.
3. Regulations
4. Accountability

He did nothing of that....nor was he listening to those that asked for it...

And he had the opportunity to put in place BRM programs that would have covered off the current crisis...he had no vision...

He is a poor excuse for an inductee and makes the others look stupid by association...

It downgrades the Hall of Fame...

[CptnObvious]

It costs about $1.30/bu to get wheat from pit to train to ship. SaskWheat says the basis is from $3.20 to $3.60, depending on grade. That's $2/bu going to the industry that used to come to us. Also....when the CWB was here all my wheat was gone by April, now I still have grain in August.

[bucket]

Farmers give weekly reports from May 1st to the end of November every year....

Where is an easy sight to find published freight rates from point A to the port?

Where is the vessel reports?

Where are the sales reports past present and future?

These are simple things Ritz and co. didn't even consider....no brainer...

Lisa Raitt couldn't get a penny from the railways back in 13/14...

And no government agencies will put a performance standard on the railways....just rubber stamp the indexed increases to freight rates...

[Oliver88]

It costs about $1.30/bu to get wheat from pit to train to ship. SaskWheat says the basis is from $3.20 to $3.60, depending on grade. That's $2/bu going to the industry that used to come to us. Also....when the CWB was here all my wheat was gone by April, now I still have grain in August.

Oh wow, it sounds like the CWB was an efficient grain mover and added $2 per bushel to your profit margin.

Why have the wheat acres increased since the removal of the CWB?

[Sodbuster]

Ritz cracker vision of agriculture was to gut all farm programs so he could find a nice corporate board job down south. His vision of agriculture also included ostrich farming and we know how that went. He was pretty much a puppet for Harper.

[LEP]

It costs about $1.30/bu to get wheat from pit to train to ship. SaskWheat says the basis is from $3.20 to $3.60, depending on grade. That's $2/bu going to the industry that used to come to us. Also....when the CWB was here all my wheat was gone by April, now I still have grain in August.

I guess when you are an organic farmer it doesn't take too many 3 bu quotas to get it all hauled by April.