25 Replies to “A Canadian Wheat Board Youtube Goes Horribly Wrong”

  1. “Horribly Wrong” — Shucks, it was just that he said “canola”? I watched the whole thing expecting him to fall through a snowdrift.

  3. Um, CWB Director, growing non-board product.
    I’d be surprised if Mr. Burnett could find his a$$ with both hands.

  5. Just a thought Max… I’ve yet to hear of canola planted as part of a rotation with wheat, and you don’t have that many fertilizer bins for wheat – especially when the ag supply companies will hold it until spring for you.

  7. CWB Marketing director, even. It doesn’t matter that that particular field that the field is getting canola: however, it was a nugget of information that was completely unnecessary to include in the video and makes the CWB look amateurish.

  9. There is a silver lining, at least for Alberta.
    Our lakes will be full again of water not just bogs like latley.

  12. I’m willing to bet that there’ll be a sea of yellow out there this summer. Not just because the price is awesome right now, but because wheat, which has been easy to grow in the past, is not so easy to grow. Now growing wheat means wheat midge, sawflies, ergot, and frost and sprouting damage. I haven’t seen no 1 wheat in 5 years. Farming is, first and foremost, a business and you’ll find that a lot of farmers will soon be changing their ways to reflect market and production conditions.

  13. Why does the Wheat Board need a weather director? The most telling comment is that he is at the the family farm in Manitoba. Most Wheat Board employees have family farms in Manitoba, that is why they have Alberta and Saskatchewan farmers pay the seaway freight. That is why they have Alberta and Sasatchewan farmers pay for the new ships to move Manitoba wheat through the seaway. That is why deductions on wheat and barley are high enough to ensure the average annual compensation for a Winnipeg Wheat Board employee is over $100,000. These folks know how to look after themselves.

  14. A bit of government intervention would help that mean old snow-pack disappear.
    D’ya hear the one about the twin boys born to a farm family?
    The parish priest came over to the house and looked at the babies side by side in their crib.
    “Well, the little fellow on the left is going to be the farmer and the other lad is going to work for the wheatboard.”
    “But Father, how can you tell that” said the wife.
    “It’s easy” said the priest. The little lad on the left is pissing,moaning and whining…and the other fellow has him by the balls.”

  15. one more 100grand a year sallary, at the farmers expense, you can tell he’s well fed.
    and why does the cwb need these new ships?
    so they can load them up with more 100grand a year jobs at the farmers expense….not to mention the fact they will all vote liebral to keep the gravey train comeing.
    one has to wonder what kind of director would vote for ships that will not benifit all farmers.
    I agree with m-alta, alberta and to some extent saskatchewan farmers will not benifit from this.
    yet they are being forced to pay for this….WHY!
    one has to wonder why these directors never said anything about these boats.
    sometimes money takes the backbone right out of folks.
    some serious investigations need to be conducted into this crimnial organization called the cwb.
    and i’m dead serious about that!

  17. A rotation with wheat and canola is standard in Manitoba and north of 51° in Alberta and Sask.
    Canola is relevant information. Canola yields are especially sensitive to late seeding. So late planting will see canola acres giving way to CWB wheat and barley. Late seeding could mean poor quality at harvest and the CWB already has a glut of low quality grain. Farmers are having difficulty hauling their grain because of snow plugged roads and bin yards.
    Burnett is director of weather and market analysis at the CWB. I’ve seen him at farmer meetings and he communicates a lot better than he did in this video.
    If the CWB gave up its monopoly, Burnett would be drawing the same salary from a different employer and a lot of farmers would be making more money.

  19. Jeez. There was more snow than that in Jacksonville, Fla.
    And the farmers down there have kind of a more ‘lean and hungry’ look…

  20. gloves may have been a good idea, sport.
    I honestly don’t think I could handle weather like that anymore…

  21. Maybe farmers should plant rice. With those rice patties in Japan washed away, the price should go up.

  22. Robyn ???????????
    I am a 3rd generation farmer, and have worked on a farm my entire life. I know farming like minority groups know government funding. Do not assume I do not know an issue when you do not even know what I do for a living. You sound like a Liberal voting against a budget they have not seen. The video is lame and tries too hard to paint an issue. The farmer in the video may be a shill, misspeaking on an issue, but the video is still a poor choice to post.

  23. Once upon a time my grand-dad made a pretty good living not growing wheat for the US Gubmint.
    Used to get up at the crack of noon and make sure the harness wasn’t getting mended.

  25. That fat boy sure does look look like a Gov’t funded man.
    Guess he wants to bleed us a bit more.
    We ain’t skinny enough yet.

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