Why Object to Plebiscite?

[youngbro]

Luvnlife I'm pleased to hear the positive feedback about the WCWGA.It is nice to hear my membership fees are being well utilized.Just be glad your poltical opponents arn't using your money like the wheat board using farmers money to remind us how lucky we are to have a gov't mandate forcing usto sell our grain through the cwb.The Wheat Growers are are made up of VOLUNTARY members.Just because some socialist is too stupid or lazy to market his own grain doesn't mean the rest of us are fine with the status quo.

[wilagro]

AdamSmith: I didn't say that farmers were stupid directly but that the line elevator companies regarded them as being so as they could sucker them AND they did.

Yes, things are different now. Weights and measures have more power to keep the buyers honest and grading standards are usually quite transparent and are posted publicly.

In some ways, in the good ol' days there was more competition and one could shop around. Now there may be one or sometimes two companies in town buying grain from a huge marketing area and sellers have to take what is offered as their choice is limited.

Anyway, from what I read of the suggestions submitted to Chuck Strahl, the new CWB II IF ever it is organized will not even be a shadow of it's former self and the old CWB will be effectively lost forever.

Pity really, our last powerful marketing resource available to western farmers will have gone down the tube. Wait for the vultures to come picking at the entrails and having a merry old time. It isn't going to be pretty.

[AdamSmith]

Wilagro, Ok I see your point.

Kinda like the CWB's 2006 Fixed price basis. Starts out at $20 over Minny in July and for no logical commercial or logistical reason, at the arbitrary signup deadline of Oct. 31 it went to $1 or 2$ under Minny.

A widening of over $20t.

So what your saying is it's better to be screwed by the Wheat Board than by an Elevator Company.