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[farmaholic]

Today I learned that my canola check-off was taken in Manitoba at $1/tonne because the canola was delivered into Manitoba. I contacted Sask Canola inquiring about my refund and they said they had no deliveries against my personal or farm name. It all makes sense.

So now I guess I get to apply for an even bigger refund. SaskCanola check off is $0.75 versus Manitoba's $1.

[Guest]

Everyone has a view on how things could be done better. Including myself and having served on one of these boards some time ago, I think we made some mistakes and did some good things.
In my experience, most board members have good intentions-make the industry better for everyone. Not all tho-some do just want a winter ‘job’. They are almost certainly disappointed when they find out how much time, reading and decision making is involved, much of it unpaid volunteer time and therefore only serve one term. If you are looking for glory and recognition, all these boards are not the place for you. Some that have been on seem to rack up significant per diem totals. Most don’t and those are the ones there for the right reason.
If you don’t believe in our system and want to take a refund, that’s your choice. If you want things to be done better, get involved rather than complain from the sidelines.
One thing I would say with certainty-if farmers are not involved and making some of the
decisions these boards make, someone with a different focus will make the decision for us.
I only vote for true, active farmers. If you work for some company and are ‘involved’ in the family farm, sorry, not going to represent farmer interests. If you help your brother run his farm, and rent a quarter crop share, sorry, you are not qualified.
Some amount of respect is needed for the true farmers that do serve intending to make things better. Otherwise, lower and less qualified people with other interests is all that will run for these boards.

one local guy here tried to run on one of these for cereals a few years back , well the regulars all banded together and campaigned together against the new one, and supported each other in plain sight,
make no mistake , they don't want any new blood