CWB: Don't Let The Door Hit You

I'm a city boy, but it sure seems to me like the CWB has gotta go, ASAP.

I wish somebody somewhere could post a similar comparison on DAIRY prices vs. the U.S.

Canadian consumers are being charged WAAAAY more than American for ALL daity products due to the quota system in place for the benefit of less than 4,000 QUEBEC dairy farmers! And dairy farmers OUTSIDE Quebec are getting hosed by the quota too.

I wish Harper would move to abolish dairy quota, for these reasons, as well as to see Jerk-Job Jack try to appease BOTH:
a) Quebec; and ...
b) "working families" paying 35% or more than Americans for the same dairy products.

C'mon Kate. You know damn well the CWB pays the farmer their price,then sells it at the US prices.How else can they afford their entitlements?
And not only dairy prices,Davers6,but egg prices also!!

Why are we waiting until 2012? Just do it now.

The most astonishing thing with the CWB is that it doesn't apply to Easterners.

I'm an Eastern city boy, so perhaps someone can enlighten me:

CWB only refers to wheat and barley, yes? I thought canola farmers could sell their own crops.

Great stats.

Here's what I'd like to know: Are there any other industries or markets where we can compare free market prices to regulated prices?

I suspect we have a huge shaft up our economic a$$es all the time but are so drugged up on Nanny-State-ium that we hardly notice.

Kevin B, the CWB regulates the sale of 'on board' products (wheat and barley) sold in the 'prairie' region. (West of the Lake of the Woods til the mountains, including the region of B.C. around Dawson Creek to Fort St.John.

We are free to sell the balance of our produce on the open market. Farmers outside the above specified regions are allowed to sell their wheat and barley on the open market as well.

KevinB - Derek already answered but I thought I would help. I think you are asking this because I included canola prices in the price comparison. The reason I put canola prices up is to show that the price for canola (a NON-CWB crop) is HIGHER in Canada than in the US - not like wheat.

Yes, John, I had noticed and liked you including that little nugget of info, that only the non-board crop was higher priced in Canada.

I forwarded a link to your sight to my "civic studies" prof form college. Can't wait for the response!

I left the CWB 15 years ago and only sell oats. Oats was on board but was removed years ago. Now I make more selling oats then I ever did selling wheat. WHY!!!

I left the CWB 15 years ago and only sell oats. Oats was on board but was removed years ago. Now I make more selling oats then I ever did selling wheat. WHY!!!

My question is, what are eastern farmers that are not beholden to the CWB getting for their equivalents?

@Daves6: Harper has stated unambiguously that there will be no change to the egg-dairy supply management system.

Thanks Kate and John for this. Some of us knew this all along, but it is good for our city cousins to see it with their own eyes.

Yes, please don't let the door hit you in the A**, but please allow my size 12 boot do the job.

I clicked on this link at the CWB Monitor:
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/martin-vows-fight-on-cwb-changes-122710293.html

"The government is in for the fight of its life over its plans for the Canadian Wheat Board, new NDP wheat board critic Pat Martin said Thursday."

Pat Martin is not in this fight for the farmers, rather against them. The CWB corporate office is located in his riding.

There apparently is a part of the CWB act that prevents the monopsony from being removed less than 12 months from a harvest - thus the first crop year without it will be 2012.

Now what do you think the likelihood is that anyone selling outside if the board prior to that time would be prosecuted? I'm not saying, I'm just saying.

we spend our winters in AZ and just hate to pay those high Canadian prices when I get back here......1 gallon of milk at Safeway $1.49-$1.99....butter 3 lbs for $5.....cheese also real cheap as well as eggs..........Red Meat I would say is the same BUT chicken and turkeys are real cheap....last Thanksgiving we paid 27 cents a pound.YES 27 cents a pound....I once asked a school superintendent friend of mine from Ottawa,that I was playing golf with" Why does our Western farmers have to put up with the CWB for our wheat and barley and you guys don't have to put up with them" His answer was" That's just the way it is" I pressed him further and all he could say was that's the way it's always been and that's just the way it is...........I pressed him further and stated it is the CANADIAN WHEAT BOARD......not the Western Canadian Wheat Board.........he has no answer......just"That's just the way it is".........stupid answer

BTW Kate, great tag.

Posted by: Derek at 7:00 PM , "We are free to sell the balance of our produce on the open market"

That phrase is reminiscent of the days when Deng Xiaoping started China's economic reforms.

We have a long way to go emerge from our own trudeaupian miasma to a free and functioning society.

It is absurd that this geographically discriminatory wheat board for example has been allowed to go on this long.

It underlines the fact we are serfs of eastern economic interests. Produce taxes, and shut up you carbon spewing prairie hicks.

Tired of being treated as colonial subjects by the eastern elites and their leftard msm echo chamber.

Tired of being treated simultaneously like their cash machine and their latrine.

The reason Gerry Ritz picked 2012 august 1 is to give all parties enough time to do this right. There is no need to fluff it like the feds did twice under their minority government. I interviewed Mr. Ritz yesterday and he shed some more light on it.

http://www.siemenssays.com/blog/4533.html