A Canadian Wheat Board Director explains;
I hear all the time here on angryville the time people like Saskfarmer bitching about the CWB because he can’t get $17.00 for his durum and he blames this on the CWB.
In the case of a few rich farmers who can sit on all of their grain while the raging masses sell out early perhaps Saskfarmer has a legitimate argument. Perhaps we did cost him $5.00 per bushel on his durum. Perhaps it ran 50 bushels per acre and perhaps he had a thousand acres. And perhaps he could have earned an additional quarter of a million dollars.
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So yes the downside is that we kept Saskfarmer from buying another section of land where he might next year make enough extra money to buy out another suffering neighbor who had to sell a section to Saskfarmer.
The upside is that the Ag industry in Canada made an extra almost quarter of a BILLION DOLLARS.
And that is just on Durum.
Wait till you see my analysis on Spring Wheat and Malt Barley.
Rod Flaman
CWB Director – District 8
306-771-2823
rodflaman@imagewireless.ca
You can “feel the love” in the replies.
Ouch. That’s going to leave a mark.
Oh oh Kate – small dead animals took out their server in 10 minutes!!
After reading only some of those replies I’m feeling all goose bumpy. Ahhh the love.
Central planning, price fixing and corporate farms as land ownership concentrates…yep it’s all there.
….as I have said repeatedly; the wedding of soviet control systems with corporate feudalism is the orthodoxy driving transnational progressivism….no stauncher adherents than in the subsidized Ag sector…probably the same crew will cheer lead North American political and economic union by the same forces driving the extinction of the profitable independently owned farm.
It’s good to know that the farmers will be our ally in the fight against the FASCISTS.
Down with Fascism! Fight for Liberty!
that there is some rare honesty coming from the CWB, and show exactly how control driven these socialists are. Evil.
Isn’t Dion somewhere in Saskatchewan this weekend? He’s probably being toed around by Slickum Goodale.
The Dippers better keep watch on them, they might steal some more candidates.
This is the kind of institution that the liberals and ndp feel is worth going to the wall for.
Why do you suppose that is?
Farmers have one or two chances in a life time to make back some money on their investments and the culture of entitlement at the cwb feel it is ok that they are not doing their best to maximize the returns for the farmers.
Allowing this institution to continue it’s control of the farms in WESTERN CANADA is a travesty and should be a NATIONAL embarrassment!
it was good of him to leave a phone number and an email address so the MSM can contact him about his inflammatory remarks. Im sure he misspoke , right.!!
Where have we seen this kind of undisguised contempt before?
http://soviethistory.org/index.php?action=L2&SubjectID=1929collectivization&Year=1929
here is another server we should crash as well, Rod’s cheering section and youth club of fascist libranos,
these revelations from Rod wsill be very helpful in our cause….Freedom from our Librano facist oppressors and collectivism
SCREW THE CWB!!!!!
http://www.savemycwb.ca/
All for one and one for all. Well…except for farmers who get too rich.
http://www.savemycwb.ca/
I could not find a place to add a comment.
Maybe they don’t want anyone making statements on there NDP looking website that isn’t complimentary?
Flaman has always liked publicity. Back in 1999, before he was on the CWB payroll, he was publically “guaranteeing”, in the Western Producer, that his lawsuit was certain to win. His statement of claim was for $27,000.00 on 9000 bushels of wheat plus $100,000.00 punitive damages, plus costs. Looks like he also liked money.
2001 direct quote from Rod Flaman, one of our new masters.
“This is like the Canadian Wheat Board and their monopoly Hoax. You can ask all the typical questions. Do they get me the best returns? Are they operating for the least cost? If I use the buy-back does it represent the boards export pricing? Did they back off the Vancouver freight? You can go on and on. But you are not asking the right questions. The monopoly is a Hoax! You have been tricked by the masters!”
Now I get it!! Not before reading Rod Flaman’s comments did I realize that the actual role of the CWB is to make sure that the farmer does not get too rich! Well, if that is their mandate they are performing admirably.
Thank you.
Socialism must be stamped out. It’s heartening to see the comments from those farmers showing the resolve to stamp out the CWB and any other socialist collectivism that rears its ugly head.
Come on Mr. harper call an election we have to get those bums out of there!
The CWB should be expanded to include managing the paycheques of all Canadians.
Employees would have their week’s pay sent to the CWB for appropriate adjustments in order to reflect the CWB’s vision of what each Canadian should be making.
This would be a fantastic way of ensuring ‘equal pay for equal work’ programs, surely no Canadians could argue with that?
CWB=========Communist Wheat Board
if this keeps up i can for see a riot breaking out who do they think they are telling me what i can do with my grain, the way i see it anything for sale in Canada should be in the CWB or else its discrimination
Great quotes. However, shouldn’t mr. flaman be signing his name “Comrade” ?
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If the CWB is such a great thing, why aren’t Ontario farmers going to jail to protest them not being forced to sell their wheat through the Wheat Board?
It seems western farmers are willing to go to jail to leave the Wheat Board’s monopoly.
Couldn’t figure out why this guy would be stupid enough to admit this; then i realize, he’s actually bragging, proud of the CWB’s ability to slap down people who are making what they consider too much money.
Mr. Harper, tear down this wall.
now we find out its the farmers of Sask. making the izzy money.
Mr. Harper, tear up that freeloader subsidy check!
Does that include gov’t health care rural people have less access to?
I know that this is not on topic, but I have two words for the so-called NHL all star game. How embarrassing! Starting with the person (trying to)sing our national anthem. Alanta and the NHL (Gary B.) have done nothing to promote the NHL. How sad!
That’s ok clipper, the CWB is not on topic either as Captain Wheat Board pointed out.
Fighting injustice everywhere.
The CWB is a social program, welfare agency, management firm, human resources department, cultural icon, re-elect the Liberals committee, etc, etc. to oversee and bully around the Western kulaks.
And maybe even a western Adscam for all we know.
Actually, selling grain to maximize returns to the Western grain producer is number 101 on their list of 100 things to do.
New ditty for the CWB, ‘nails in the coffin, nails in the coffin!’.
Heh heh.
Rod Flamens remark about the “grain companies in the US” getting $5 a bushel more than the American farmer reminds me of a discussion I had with a commissioner of the CWB.He was talking about the boards ability to get more money for the Canadian farmer than the American farmer got because the grain companys had to make a profit on the grain they bought.I told him that because the Canadian farmer has to stand the BASIS and it is our grain till the end user pays for it then we should get what the American grain company gets and NOT just what the American farmer gets.He had no answer.
Wow, this guy is really under-utilized at the CWB. With this much capacity for envy, delusions of grandeur, and analysis he really should step up to the next level and go work for the IPCC.
Really, Mr Rod Flaman, don’t hold yourself back. It is not just Canada that needs you, the whole world needs you.
Please go work for Gore et Co, before it is too late! Save us all from our own stupidity and greed!
Not that I agree with the forced collectivism, but how do we know for sure that Rod Flaman actually was the one who posted that? Could it be someone trying to make him look bad?
Rod FLamen should go to work for FLAMEN SALES and stop their expansion because they are putting the LITTLE guy out of business.That way he could keep his social engineering in the family and just wreck their company and not the Western Canadian farmer,but maybe he is like all social engineers,the rules are different for them.
Banachek; It does’nt matter if he wrote it or not,he’s a director of the CWB and has to agree with their policy which is what was stated.If he thought otherwise,he would resign.
God Flaman posted later on the same website and did not disclaim authorship of the offending prose.
It’s for real.
I mean, how scary can those crooked Liberals get, eh?
I just thought it was amusing that Commissar Flaman referred to Agri-Ville as angryville.
Agri-Ville still loaded very slowly at midnight last night, due to the SDA-lanche…
Loaded very slowly last nite?
I just spent 45 minutes trying to get on it just now. And never got on.
Had to come here to find if anything new.
Gee, I wonder how many USDA workers and US Wheat Grower members there are, that would want to read God Flaman’s prose.
And have a real hearty laugh at the CWB’s expense.
What’s the old saying?
‘When the Gods seek to destroy a man, they first make him crazy.’
I am not a farmer; could someone explain in basic terms how the CWB operates? I know the basic idea is all the farmers have to sell their wheat and barley to the board, which then uses its “market power” to get a better price for everyone. So, why does it fail so miserably to do so? Why can’t individual farmers use the futures markets to get decent prices (and by that I mean, if the CWB didn’t exist, why couldn’t they?). And what to terms like “basis” and “pro” mean? Thanks for any help.
Here is a Google video interview with a Saskatchewan farmer who had a similar discussion with wheat board director Kyle Korneychuk. Korneychuck told him if he didn’t like the prices here he should move his farm.
http://www.siemenssays.com/?p=8677
KevinB
The CWB distorts the basis to take from folks who had the discipline to sell at a “High” futures price…. compared to what the CWB average Pool price is. This year the CWB is forcing over $3.00/bu out of Wheat Cash Prices… and into the CWB pool… to make certain grain growers using CWB pools get the highest returns.
The CWB slaves… must not get the wrong idea…; Choosing their own time to sell must be discounted and discouraged whenever possible!
(P)pool (R)return (O)outlook is a CWB calculation that indicates what price the average pool will deliver… if prices stayed the same as when it was calculted until the end of pool sales that year.
Kevin, TJackson knows all the nuts and bolts about how the CWB works, but a bit of history is also enlightening. In 1935 the CWB was created to market and pool prairie wheat. In 1943, by regulation under the War Measures Act, the CWB was given unlimited monopoly powers. After the War, the government made a 4 year agreement to supply wheat to Britain at a cheap price. The schemers felt that the CWB wartime powers would not hold up under the constitution so in 1947 they added Part IV to the CWB Act which was essentially a national tariff so that the government could set the price they would pay farmers regardless of what world prices did. (incidently, wheat prices went way up after the war creating a huge loss for farmers)
But the astounding thing is that the authorities claimed the monopoly continued and have lied to farmers ever since. Flaman knows this and wrote about it [“The Monopoly is a Hoax”] but once in power, he doesn’t care.
The CWB has become a bloated self-serving bureaucracy with self preservation their primary goal and only a few actually selling grain.
I just checked again and if you go to “history” on the CWB website, you will see no mention of the most important 1947 addition of the national Part IV to the CWB Act.