“They shoot messengers – don’t they?”

“After an interview I did with CBC radio yesterday calls and emails were just plain ugly. I will start a daily price comparison and add other countries as we go along. You can now compare what I see everyday. The OWB’s and Montana prices are net to the farm.”

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at a boy Larry, your a good man for taking the shots on this……the truth should expose the royal screwing us farmers are taking when it comes to the marketing of our wheat and barley in the designated area…the ndippers and liberanos only defence to this bull*&^% is ugly rants, there is no logic to their arguments or insults…free farmers in the west, the sooner the better!!!!!

I had a long converstioin with the cwb yesterday, after hearing all their excuses and platitudes I told them that I will need a bit more for my wheat to get me to sign a contract. Since i was hailed out it won’t be much after what i save for seed.
BUt I would join a convoy of trucks going down to Montana, what say you? Lets take back our market while we still have a freindly government in power

Ahhh yes kleptocratic Fed marketing cartels keeping prices below market costs fir their special clients.

After the coming formal demise of the CWB, the new Canadian Wheat POOL will arise.
After some farmers voluntarily sign up their land to exclusive production of CWPool grains, the CWPool will then market their grains just like the old CWB did.
After all, nobody can deny that the good business connections the CWB has established over the years with the central grain purchasing organizations of other nations will give them an inside track on doing the big, multi-year deals.
And the other main benefit of the new voluntary CWPool is that the members would be free to assign their other grains like canola, flax, oats, or any other grain (organics?) they want to the CWPool to market for them.
That would make the NFU members happy since they have wanted canola to be marketed by the CWB for the last 30 yrs.
And everybody gets exactly what they personally want.

Don’t think the Ontario Wheat Board (OWB) is the promised land. Yes old crop wheat is over $8/bushel but no one has any, all sold for half that price. Then the CFIA and federal government nearly bankrupted the OWB. Feds negotiated a deal with India on photosanitary specs and promised the OWB they could sell Ontario wheat to India. The contract was signed and the first boat loaded and shipped out. On the way the OWB was informed by the Indians the wheat was no good because of chess grass seed contamination. The promise from the Feds and the CFIA was worth squat. Then the boatload in transit gets sold at distressed prices. OWB has to buy up wheat at a loss and ship it over. To assure the customer the wheat is okay the OWB takes samples. The Canadian Grain Commission won’t test the samples because their inspectors did not take the sample. Nor would they take the sample from the wheat already in the hold of a ship. Probably b/c they know the farmers are ready to shoot a couple of bureaucrats and add them to the wheat for a protein boost. Hey, don’t suggest this to the Chinese. The only thing that saved the OWB from insolvency was a big profit they made on some shares in a company which they sold. And this was the first year I decided to try to market throught the OWB. But at least we have a choice. And the opportunity to elect all of the OWB directors and hold them accountable. It does make a difference. Even if you sold your wheat at half price compared to today’s price

Great post, keep it up guys. Next time Comrade Lorne, Taliban Jack, or Stephan “Sustanbul Dvlopmnt” Dion start yapping about the virtues of the CWB, please confront them with these figures and ask how the CWB dictatorship is benefitting farmers.

If any rural producers want a fair price for their crops and herds, be sure to support the commentary of the Saskatchewan Democratic Action Party both here and in the upcoming Saskatchewan elections – we cannot help but comment that the prices we are observing in these releases (where Saskatchewan’s products are disrespected and undervalued) would never happen again if the SDAP is successful in the months to come.
These terrible prices and returns are the result of government mismanagement and horribly flawed economics spanning many decades; this has created an exploitive economic environment that can never provide adequate returns to producers. The central cause of today’s rural Saskatchewan problems were brought on by Lorne Calvert’s NDP and the Brad Wall/SaskPC government of the 1980’s. This has led to tens of thousands of rural Saskatchewan farmers being plowed under and severe damage to rural infrastructure. Brad Wall and Lorne Calvert are unwilling to take responsibility for this economic disaster they have created. The SaskParty and NDP politicians make promises decade after decade but never deliver. What is required is a new kind of economics, one which the SDAP is promising to deliver and that will produce a dramatic change in the picture associated with this blog thread showing poor returns on crops.
The SDAP cannot help but comment that the current flawed economic environment was set up by the politicians who are now within the SaskParty and NDP including specially Brad Wall and Lorne Calvert.
To combat this problem, the Saskatchewan Democratic Action Party is currently seeking dedicated citizens throughout a number of constituencies in the province to be candidates in the upcoming provincial elections. Hopefully our comments here will help urge a few dedicated and hardworking Saskatchewan citizens who are sick of the same old NDP/SaskParty to contact us to begin the process of winning a candidacy.

SDAP – please take your campaign ads elsewhere.

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