ritter

[sask]

COMPETITION IS GOOD
“We believe that competition is the key to building
the grain transportation system that our nation and
the farmers of Western Canada require and deserve.
We believe that just as we must compete in the
domestic and international markets with grain
grown in the U.S., in Australia, in the Black Sea
region and in Argentina, the transportation service
providers who move our grain must not be
insulated from competition. They must be expected
to go head-to-head with meaningful competitors
who will force them to continuously strive for the
lowest cost structure and best service in an open
and fair marketplace.”

- Canadian Wheat Board Chairman Ken Ritter's
speech to the House of Commons' Standing
Committee on Transport Hearings on Bill C26 on
October 28, 2003.

What's good for the goose is good for the gander,
Ken!

[agstar77]

Depends whether you are a buyer or a seller!!

[wilagro]

Thank goodness that we have the CWB to work on our behalf in meeting the world-wide competition. I don't have the expertise and I am sure that most of my neighbours do not have this ability either.

[parsley]

wilagrow,

You don't think your neighbors have ability? That must disappoint you.

Hmm.

They must be a particularly stupid lot where you live, because my neighbors all seem to sell their canola and flax and bulls and sheep and purebred cattle and alpacca,.. business..commerce... and get this...lots of young farmers, too.

So who has ability according to CWB exporta-mensa-guidelines? Who's so good at exporting?

smalldeadanimals.com,
poses the question, "And how does a mining company become an accredited Canadian Wheat Board exporter?", so maybe you know something I don't, and you are saying a mining company is a better exporter than a farmer.

Parsley

PS And here I thought our neighbors were so capable, but I'm learning from you, wilagrow.

[sask]

wilagro - I don't understand how it is different to
market wheat or malt barley than it is to market all the
other things that Parsley listed - explain it.

[cottonpicken]

Interesting thing about cattle on the ctv news at noon.All the packers are buying up the cattle herds.

And guess what cargill is buying up land and getting farmers to custom farm.

[wedino]

cottenpicken, ""And guess what cargill is buying up land and getting farmers to custom farm.""

Enlighten me,like, where is this happening? my farm's for sale.

[wedino]

Parsley, Sask. Good luck getting Wilagro to answer. He and Mustardman blow alot of smoke, but when you ask them a question point blank. No response.

[wilagro]

Snappy: You guys don't believe or accept answers to your questions anyway. I quit smokin' a long time ago...no longer blow.

Most farmers that I know around here don't want to be marketers to the world and wouldn't know where to start. Just because you guys have computers...you figure it is so simple to access price quotes and suddenly you are marketers/exporters/financial gurus and all round know-it-alls.

Cry and groan about the CWB all you want but they have come by their expertise honestly and try to do the best job that they can. It's a bib, big world out their. If YOU have time to market your grain to the world then who in h*** is farming your land?...robots?

[cropduster]

Willie,sorry you`re so scared to sell your/my wheat the same way you sell your non boards.Are you succumbing to the terror of the world?Speaking of robots doing the farming......Ritters hired man Veryl Richeloff didn`t get his Christmas bonus($1000).Should we take up a collection for him so that Ken can sell your wheat??