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That can’t be true. That part about keeping wheat for export cheap.
Yes, it is true. The CWB pulled that stunt twice in a big way, once during their first go around during WW I and then again in 1943, as well since then.
BTW, I sent this video to a great number of people last evening.
Ken, doesn’t it sound just like what Stalin did during the famine in the Ukraine. Starve them out!
Do you think it’s time to pull a John Galt? Yep, indeed!
Time to Fix Bayonets………….
The Wheat Borg …
resistance if futile.
Shit! that’s supposed to be “Resistance IS Futile”. But then you probably know that.
I hate it when I do that and I do it a lot. Oh well, I am old … I get confused …
larben, yes, glad our immediate family was out of there by then, although some extended family members literally suffered Stalin’s imposition of the socialist utopia.
Lenin pulled the same stunt 1918-22 through confiscations of food, feed stocks, livestock and equipment. This, plus the fear of being arrested by the Cheka for anti-Soviet activities earlier, convinced gpa to make tracks for Canada.
Abe,I just thought you had a speech impediment,but was too kind to mention it.
ROFL. Great video. Reminds of Will Ferrell’s SNL “Hot Tub” skit where he always calls the “hot tub” the “hatub.”
Why is Chicago, the land of Obama, mantioned in this video?
Its bad enough that the Black Hawks won the Stanley Cup and that they sent Obama to the White House. They also have some input into the price of wheat…which is controlled by the CWB!
I wanted to put my hands through the computer screen and choke the CWB Czar until his head popped off. I need some time off from watching this stuff…
No wonder my dad left grain farming 40 years ago!!!
We don’t need no stinkin’, freeloading, whining farmers.
Geez.
Somebody better send this video to Wayne Easter, MP for Malpeque PEI, so he will finally understand why he should quit standing up in the House of Commons and defending the CWB.
But then again…
Don’t the Liberals just love issue that keep us divided?
You fellas in the west should have every G.D. right to sell wheat to whoever ya want to!
Next thing you know , the bastards will want a vote on issues such as this .
I stopped growing wheat board grains when they quietly stole my malt barley for $3.50 per bushel and the street price (and I did find a buyer down there) in the U.S. was pushing $9.00!!
Canada Malt was gleeful about this scam and lectured me that I should be content with the wonderful job the Communist Wheat Board was doing for me.
Is there any reason any farmers grow supply into the CWB at all?
If I was a farmer in their jurisdiction I would just grow whatever I could only sell on the open market and try to convince others to do the same. Maybe go so far as buying out others that sell into them and turning the crop into something else.
Start a trend until no one grows anything that falls into the CWBs purvey until they disappear.
I know, eventually they’d get the PM to declare all your crops are belong to us, but you could make them sweat on the way there, then the crops would just have to disappear for a while until they get the point.
@ eljay, most farmers I know just grow wheat as a part of the rotational process in order to keep the land from being used too much for one crop because disease and insect control. Wheat is kind of like a filler crop.
I remember finding it incredible when back about 1988 only 4 out of a hundred western Canadian grain growers was aware of the fact that the “Canadian” (what a farce) Wheat Boards jurisdiction only encompased the three prairie provinces and a small area of northern B.C.!
Why was that? Was it the Pools and “The Western Seducer” that had successfully kept their constituency asleep?
They certainly DID NOT advertise this on the front page that Ontario Growers were hauling directly to the mills and getting $7.00 bu while the surf in the west had to accept $2.00 from our masters.
Like a dog that is trained to accept a beating in order to get fed…we came for our beating year after year!
that about sums it up !!
Farmers should stop growing wheat altogether and the Wheat Board would be screwed.
Excellent video Sask farmer. Sadly most Manitoba and Sask farmers, or at least those the CWB calls farmers for voting purposes, will not listen to what it has to say. Remove Alberta from the designated area. They can add Ontario and Quebec to replace us.
Only complete suckers can allow this atrocity to continue. Did they threaten you with jail sentence, big babies? If you were men, the history would end with ‘and CWB was abolished after the farmers blocked the roads and railways for weeks’ or something to that effect. Like fairy godmother used to say, you don’t deserve ‘happily ever after’.
Same thing about C68. There is only one man in this country and his first name begins with ‘B’ and ends with ‘e’.
Yep, Aaron is definitely an agent provocateur. Whose money you taking Aaron, CHRC? Lib party? Freelance?
Last Saskatchewan Pirate by Tractor, from the CD East of Edson comes to mind…
There is only one man in this country and his first name begins with ‘B’ and ends with ‘e’.
Brett Favre?
“begins with B and ends with e” Bobbie? Billie? Barrie? OK, so much for that first born child I kinda liked.
The thought that someone might just speak their mind is not even occurring to Canadian sheeple.
That, by the way, explains criticism of Sarah Palin by the ‘conservative’ columnists in the NP in my opinion. Frum et al.
And yes, I was always fascinated with amounts of real estate owned by the evil geniuses and their sidekicks from the children movies. If any evil NWO or illuminati wants to pay me for speaking or shutting up – I have expenses to cover. That can be arranged.
Kate KNOWS for how long I’ve been speaking my mind on this blog. Was it 5 or 6 years, Kate?
For the ignorant, the name is Bruce Montague. Boo!
As wheat futures rise the CWB stands to make windfall profits. Need we debate any other reason for its existence?
“As wheat futures rise the CWB stands to make windfall profits.”
Last time around that the wheat futures rose, the CWB lost tens of millions of farmers’ money.
WalterF is right. They lost it speculating(gambling) on the futures markets.
Here’s a quote from a heavyweight in the western grain industry and he should know what he is talking about.
“Nothing sells a program better than to find out that your neighbor got an extra dollar per bushel for his wheat.” – Western Producer Sept 2002
Have you EVER read a bigger or better endorsement of the open grain trading market than that?
And BTW,the guy quoted was Ken Ritter, when he was Chairman of the Canadian Wheat Board.
Dr. Thomas Sowell has a message for supporters of the Canadian Wheat Board.
“People who are very aware that they have more knowledge than the average person are often very unaware that they do not have one-tenth the knowledge of all of the average persons put together. In this situation, for the intelligensia to impose their notions on ordinary people, is essentially to impose ignorance on knowledge.”
I still do not understand why the Wheat Boards exists.
I have been aware of the situation for some years now, and putting aside the obvious unfairness of only Alberta, Sask and Manitoba being involved in this, last I checked, this was a free country, where everyone should be free to sell what the make/grow to whomever they want.
Can someone explain why farmers have allowed this obvious stupidity to continue for so long?
Farmers are usually independant people, and I would have thought they would have strung up the Wheat Board years ago.
> last I checked, this was a free country
Apparently it’s not, as no one has mounted a constitutional challenge on the basis of wheat board infringing on the right of people to make a living (and possibly on freedom of association).
No one wished to be charged with selling outside the board to mount a challenge.
Another proof that the only man in the country is Bruce Montague.
Isn’t this the same way Potash is sold? Something Brad Wall faught BP on?
Funny video. too bad there is very little truth in it.
That can’t be true. That part about keeping wheat for export cheap.
Yes, it is true. The CWB pulled that stunt twice in a big way, once during their first go around during WW I and then again in 1943, as well since then.
BTW, I sent this video to a great number of people last evening.
Ken, doesn’t it sound just like what Stalin did during the famine in the Ukraine. Starve them out!
Do you think it’s time to pull a John Galt? Yep, indeed!
Time to Fix Bayonets………….
The Wheat Borg …
resistance if futile.
Shit! that’s supposed to be “Resistance IS Futile”. But then you probably know that.
I hate it when I do that and I do it a lot. Oh well, I am old … I get confused …
larben, yes, glad our immediate family was out of there by then, although some extended family members literally suffered Stalin’s imposition of the socialist utopia.
Lenin pulled the same stunt 1918-22 through confiscations of food, feed stocks, livestock and equipment. This, plus the fear of being arrested by the Cheka for anti-Soviet activities earlier, convinced gpa to make tracks for Canada.
Abe,I just thought you had a speech impediment,but was too kind to mention it.
ROFL. Great video. Reminds of Will Ferrell’s SNL “Hot Tub” skit where he always calls the “hot tub” the “hatub.”
Why is Chicago, the land of Obama, mantioned in this video?
Its bad enough that the Black Hawks won the Stanley Cup and that they sent Obama to the White House. They also have some input into the price of wheat…which is controlled by the CWB!
I wanted to put my hands through the computer screen and choke the CWB Czar until his head popped off. I need some time off from watching this stuff…
No wonder my dad left grain farming 40 years ago!!!
We don’t need no stinkin’, freeloading, whining farmers.
Geez.
Somebody better send this video to Wayne Easter, MP for Malpeque PEI, so he will finally understand why he should quit standing up in the House of Commons and defending the CWB.
But then again…
Don’t the Liberals just love issue that keep us divided?
You fellas in the west should have every G.D. right to sell wheat to whoever ya want to!
Next thing you know , the bastards will want a vote on issues such as this .
I stopped growing wheat board grains when they quietly stole my malt barley for $3.50 per bushel and the street price (and I did find a buyer down there) in the U.S. was pushing $9.00!!
Canada Malt was gleeful about this scam and lectured me that I should be content with the wonderful job the Communist Wheat Board was doing for me.
Is there any reason any farmers grow supply into the CWB at all?
If I was a farmer in their jurisdiction I would just grow whatever I could only sell on the open market and try to convince others to do the same. Maybe go so far as buying out others that sell into them and turning the crop into something else.
Start a trend until no one grows anything that falls into the CWBs purvey until they disappear.
I know, eventually they’d get the PM to declare all your crops are belong to us, but you could make them sweat on the way there, then the crops would just have to disappear for a while until they get the point.
@ eljay, most farmers I know just grow wheat as a part of the rotational process in order to keep the land from being used too much for one crop because disease and insect control. Wheat is kind of like a filler crop.
I remember finding it incredible when back about 1988 only 4 out of a hundred western Canadian grain growers was aware of the fact that the “Canadian” (what a farce) Wheat Boards jurisdiction only encompased the three prairie provinces and a small area of northern B.C.!
Why was that? Was it the Pools and “The Western Seducer” that had successfully kept their constituency asleep?
They certainly DID NOT advertise this on the front page that Ontario Growers were hauling directly to the mills and getting $7.00 bu while the surf in the west had to accept $2.00 from our masters.
Like a dog that is trained to accept a beating in order to get fed…we came for our beating year after year!
that about sums it up !!
Farmers should stop growing wheat altogether and the Wheat Board would be screwed.
Excellent video Sask farmer. Sadly most Manitoba and Sask farmers, or at least those the CWB calls farmers for voting purposes, will not listen to what it has to say. Remove Alberta from the designated area. They can add Ontario and Quebec to replace us.
Only complete suckers can allow this atrocity to continue. Did they threaten you with jail sentence, big babies? If you were men, the history would end with ‘and CWB was abolished after the farmers blocked the roads and railways for weeks’ or something to that effect. Like fairy godmother used to say, you don’t deserve ‘happily ever after’.
Same thing about C68. There is only one man in this country and his first name begins with ‘B’ and ends with ‘e’.
Yep, Aaron is definitely an agent provocateur. Whose money you taking Aaron, CHRC? Lib party? Freelance?
Last Saskatchewan Pirate by Tractor, from the CD East of Edson comes to mind…
There is only one man in this country and his first name begins with ‘B’ and ends with ‘e’.
Brett Favre?
“begins with B and ends with e” Bobbie? Billie? Barrie? OK, so much for that first born child I kinda liked.
The thought that someone might just speak their mind is not even occurring to Canadian sheeple.
That, by the way, explains criticism of Sarah Palin by the ‘conservative’ columnists in the NP in my opinion. Frum et al.
And yes, I was always fascinated with amounts of real estate owned by the evil geniuses and their sidekicks from the children movies. If any evil NWO or illuminati wants to pay me for speaking or shutting up – I have expenses to cover. That can be arranged.
Kate KNOWS for how long I’ve been speaking my mind on this blog. Was it 5 or 6 years, Kate?
For the ignorant, the name is Bruce Montague. Boo!
For those who care about the western farmer this site is informative. http://cwbmonitor.blogspot.com/
As wheat futures rise the CWB stands to make windfall profits. Need we debate any other reason for its existence?
“As wheat futures rise the CWB stands to make windfall profits.”
Last time around that the wheat futures rose, the CWB lost tens of millions of farmers’ money.
WalterF is right. They lost it speculating(gambling) on the futures markets.
Here’s a quote from a heavyweight in the western grain industry and he should know what he is talking about.
“Nothing sells a program better than to find out that your neighbor got an extra dollar per bushel for his wheat.” – Western Producer Sept 2002
Have you EVER read a bigger or better endorsement of the open grain trading market than that?
And BTW,the guy quoted was Ken Ritter, when he was Chairman of the Canadian Wheat Board.
Dr. Thomas Sowell has a message for supporters of the Canadian Wheat Board.
“People who are very aware that they have more knowledge than the average person are often very unaware that they do not have one-tenth the knowledge of all of the average persons put together. In this situation, for the intelligensia to impose their notions on ordinary people, is essentially to impose ignorance on knowledge.”
I still do not understand why the Wheat Boards exists.
I have been aware of the situation for some years now, and putting aside the obvious unfairness of only Alberta, Sask and Manitoba being involved in this, last I checked, this was a free country, where everyone should be free to sell what the make/grow to whomever they want.
Can someone explain why farmers have allowed this obvious stupidity to continue for so long?
Farmers are usually independant people, and I would have thought they would have strung up the Wheat Board years ago.
> last I checked, this was a free country
Apparently it’s not, as no one has mounted a constitutional challenge on the basis of wheat board infringing on the right of people to make a living (and possibly on freedom of association).
No one wished to be charged with selling outside the board to mount a challenge.
Another proof that the only man in the country is Bruce Montague.
Isn’t this the same way Potash is sold? Something Brad Wall faught BP on?
Funny video. too bad there is very little truth in it.