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[craig]

While I would agree that I would prefer to have a choice in how I market my wheat and barley, I also understand in reality that things have not changed on that front for years. Many producers support the board and given the right direction I think the board can possibly still fill a role. If we had a working fixed price option for hard red spring Wheat and Durum and allowed all other crops marketing choice, I think I could live with that situation. If we can also move from a system where the board pushes the agenda to one where the board is pulled by the will of farmers( Ontario) then we are headed in the right direction. I find it frustrating that both sides are so entrenched in their positions that we end up in a stale mate. I would like to be able to turn by focus back to managing my farm and moving forward.

[parsley]

I want to take this one step further, boone and craig.

Seed growers can get the license, export and go to Cancun. I don't begrudge them at all.

But as far as I know they also have the option to sell through the CWB. They can contract with the Board, using the various options.

In Ontario, you opt right out.

Seedgrowers here can opt out what they want plus jump into pooling when they want plus jump into fixed pricing when they want.

I'd like the same, craig. No settling for less. How about you? Are you willing to just tinker, and settle for your contracts being written on blue paper instead of white and forget about the big issue? Ration AL will be relieved if you jumped at the smokescreen.

Parsley

[TOM4CWB]

Craig;

With you totally.

Tonight at Forestburg... it was an interesting tale that was told.

This CWB marketing issue is not about logic or good business sense.

It is an emotional issue... tied up in a religious belief type system... almost as bad as the Protestants fighting the Catholics in Great Britian.

Fear, is the main driver... as it is with retaining CWB marketing.

Fear of a demon that cannot be proved or disproved...

As the CWB's Ritter and Oberg said tonight again, the CWB cannot exist with market choice...

ANd the CWB will prove it!

They would rather destroy the CWB than have proof that they lied to us all these years... yet we still know what the CWB says is false!

Beans in Southern Alberta are the perfect example!

Pooling for over 80% of Alberta production... on a voluntary basis... by contract.

Market CHoice does work. Example after Example around the world do exist.

And the CWB keeps hammering on the Ontario Wheat Board, saying they are finished.

The Ontario Wheat Board is only dead if that is what farmers want.