CWB Producer Survey Released

[food4u]

Hope the next government in this province goes into REGINA with a BIG broom and really cleans house in the upper bureaucracy. That was what got another government in serious trouble. The present ones have no trouble doing it every time they get elected.Remember when R. Thatcher had to do the sixties.There was a terrible nashing of teeth but you have to have a bureaucrazy that will work with you. not against you.

[parsley]

All surveys done by organics show that 80% of all organic producers want get rid of CWB warbles, and yet Patty Rosher just became an Organic Marketing Manager!

Here we go again.

1. Will she know anything about organics! What do you think?

2. Will she ask anyone in organics anything about organcis? What do you think?

3. Will she steal all the established markets? What do you think?

4. Will she undercut current marketers? What do you think?

5. Will the CWB be accountable to organic producers? What do you think?

Parsley

[charliep]

Did anyone read the survey? My take is farmers (permit book holders) sent the CWB quite a different message than the spin the CWB is putting on it. Farmers are ready to try something with barley with an understanding of the risk this presents to single desk. Am I wrong?

[parsley]

Survey says:

51% are in favor of dual marketing for wheat.


Parsley

[Fransisco]

No Charlie you are right.

The BOD needs to suck it up, get on with it and stop wasting all of our time and money on their ridiculous lawsuit.

[parsley]

Survey says:

Only 44% of producers strongly supported the Board.

The rest were either somewhat supportive or opposed.


Times have changed agstar.

Parsley

[rodb]

Heard Chairman Ken doing an interview on the radio today. He wants to incorporate a lot of things we have had in the open market. I would say "to little to late and get out of the way so the train doesn't hit you".

I read the article on the Cwb's report on the railroads. Does Ian McCreary know what the word arrogance means?

I guess I am getting cranky with all the rain.

[kamichel]

So how did the CWB get this? From their news room.

Survey shows farmers unwilling to risk strong CWB

June 21, 2007

Regina – Western Canadian farmers are not prepared to put the CWB at risk in order to have the government completely open up the barley market, according to results of the CWB’s annual producer survey, presented today at the Western Canada Farm Progress Show.

“Ensuring that the CWB remains strong is clearly important to Prairie producers,” CWB board chair Ken Ritter said of the survey, conducted in April 2007 among 1,300 farmers. “The CWB is the institution that most farmers identify with and it is clear from their responses that they do not want to lose it.”

Almost 60 per cent of farmers in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba agreed with the statement “I am against anything that would weaken the CWB”. Sixty-six per cent of producers said that the views of the CWB are close to their own – significantly higher than any other farm group, grain company or government. Sixty per cent said the government must ensure the CWB remains strong and viable if it moved to open up the barley market.

[Fransisco]

They must have special glasses. The kind that makes up look like down,left look like right and black look like white.

Seems like they still think they can 'fake' the free market. No one else ever has but Ritter, Toews and company think they are smarter than everyone else.

With spring wheat worth a buck a bushel less in the dominion than in the land of the free they're doing as bang up job in banging up the farm economy.

[TOM4CWB]

Fran,

THe CWB MUST protect us from ourselves.

The question is... will the Canadian Courts get sucked in and agree that we don't have any property or civil rights?

If the courts rule on the side of the CWB Single Mindlessness... it will prove just how broken our court system has become... somewhat like our Senate!

Harper needs to remove & chase out the barnicles and leaches off the good ship Blue Nose!