CWB: Partying Hard On Farmers’ Money

“Now at first I thought…

… oh well, so what, CWB staff deserve to have a little fun every now and then just like everybody else, right?

Then I remembered that according to their latest annual report the average salary of these folks is just over $91,000 per year. Then I remembered this chart which shows how I’m getting the worst basis ever for my wheat this year, and this chart which shows how these folks have not been able to beat even the simple average price in the US for malt barley over the last eight years. And then I thought about how stressed out these folks supposedly were last year that they needed a special $1000 bonus….

20 Replies to “CWB: Partying Hard On Farmers’ Money”

Cry me a river. If farmers weren’t livin’ large on the taxpayer’s dime to the tune of $5 billion a year, maybe you’d have something to complain about.

430 employees times $91,000 per equals a modest $39,130,000 in salaries which comes directly from the pockets of farmers in the form of under-priced wheat and barley sales.
And that’s every year…year after year.
No wonder they’re so happy!!

Hey Manny, how about if the CWB quit getting lowball prices for farmers grain? Maybe you wouldn’t have to subsidize them?

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Now,now Kate. You know full well they needed that bonus. Why just think how it must break their little hearts to have to under pay farmers year after year!
Allan what does OBL have to do with the commie wheat board? Besides the fact they are both total a**holes.

Each employee only got a thousand dollar bonus? With the surplus they must be running from buying low and selling high the CWB must be able to pay more than a measly thousand dollars. I mean look at the difference between the world price and what the farmers are paid! Where is all that extra money going if not to the farmers or the CWB employees? The federal Liberal party?

it’s painfully obvious who’s livin large on the taxpayers dime manny and unless you’re on the dole or a miscreant of some sort then you be a taxpayer too

Now you know why they fight tooth & nail to keep the monopoly. Work hard only to protect your trough and relax the rest (99.999%) of the time.
BTW, which farmers exactly received the $5 billion? None of the ones I know did and when I was still living at home there were no handouts. Only the millers, brewers, stills and longshormans’ union ever received any goodies.
Any they still cried tough times. In the 1980’s Coors paid 11 dollars US per bushel of barley to American farmers; Molsons paid the CWB subsidized price, which prairie farmers received even less, and still Molson had to cry for anti-dumping duties on US beer.

local farmer’s back from wcb meeting all agreed that after the board rep. explained to them that no U.S farmer’s or few sold thier wheat for more than six dollar’s bus.and that, they were going to get eight+ from the wcb.there was no arguing with them! Ask why canola isn’t under the board? that’s different the big grain co. are kind I guess, not like in the wheat market. these are savey farmer’s who make good money in their marketing of anything but wheat and barley!this was hammered into them since they were young, and what they hammer into their kid’s. it will take a decade before they will stop fighting this issue. why has there not been an audit this would go along way to opening up their mind’s or show them right.

Hey Manny,
The CWB cost me more this year than all the subsidies I received for the last five.
Designated area farmers growing CWB crops aren’t the “farmers” who are receiving the lions share of subsidies in this country so your comment just amounts to added insult to injury.

hey Manny
Don’t eat and save that subsidy you pinhead

As usual you will get those farmers who will defend this dinosaur, as they say to their long suffering wife, well honey we’ll get that new truck next year. Morons.

$5 Billion less 75% for job creation. 20 years over 63,716 farms gone, 5 years 1996-2001 124,275 farmers gone and 282,758 decrease in rural population. Swells in cities from somewhere. Rural schools and hospitals gone. Fishing industry gone, next auto industry. China and India make everything. Cannot do without farms but will the farmers own them? Back to the land Lords.

“An Australian wheat exporter at the centre of a scandal over its dealings with Iraq has admitted in an official inquiry that it inflated its prices.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4623974.stm

Hey Manny, how about if the CWB quit getting lowball prices for farmers grain? Maybe you wouldn’t have to subsidize them?
Fat chance. With agriculture being the culture of dependence that it is? With it’s collective mentality of entitlement?
BTW, which farmers exactly received the $5 billion? None of the ones I know did…
Then you should have no problem with the elimination of all ag subsidies.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again:
If you support forced sales of one product to a gov’t marketing board then you MUST support the same for every product, everywhere in Canada!
If you don’t, then you are truly a hypocrite.
The logical basis for every argument in support of the CWB can be applied to everything else.

“Then you should have no problem with the elimination of all ag subsidies.”
If all subsidies everywhere were eliminated, along with all tariffs and other barriers to trade, then yes.