23 Replies to “A Canadian Wheat Board Petition”

  5. “No one from AB, SK or MB has signed it…several from other countries have signed. Sounds representative of western grain farmers … or not.”
    I notice that Heywood Djablomy just signed. Where have I heard that name before?

  6. Boy is that hilarious! These people want respect and to be heard, yet they do something as silly as toss five-gallon pails of wheat on MP’s doorsteps? Come on, man.

  7. Glad to see the Commie Wheat Board come to an end! In 1943 mandatory membership was to fight the Nazis, apparently they were defeated but don’t ask the CWB!
    Marketing FREEDOM for all Ukranian-Canadian farmers!
    Cheers
    Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
    1st Saint Nicolaas Army
    Army Group “True North”

  8. Fascinating… it appears that they are filtering out or deleting the fake signatures.
    Also fascinating – that people from outside the jurisdiction of the Wheat Board don’t understand the irony of their signing a petition in favour of it.

  10. There will be no tears for this group of Marxist Users, when they loose their vehicle of oppression.
    Used against Western Canada only.

  11. You know, I was just thinking about one of the comments at the petition, this one below:
    “Spring wheat in North Dakota $8.50 per bushel cash. In Manitoba. $4.00 if they will take it, and maybe a bit more in a year. Senator, why is this good for me?”
    I fired up my Windows Calculator and played with those numbers. That farmer is REALLY getting screwed by the CWB! They’re paying him 47%! of the price that he’d get for his wheat crop on the free, open market in North Dakota! Assuming for the sake of discussion that he owns a 1/2 section of land, 320 acres and assuming, based on my quick google results, that his farm has yields equal to the average American wheat farm of 40.6 bushels per acre, that works out to a total crop of just about 13,000 bushels.
    At $8.50 on the free, open North Dakota market, he’d make $110,500 for his crop. At the CWB’s $4 monopoly price, he gets $52,000. That’s $58,500 LESS from the CWB! Now, assuming the CWB sells their grain at whatever the global market prices are, SOMEBODY is making a vastly inflated margin and net profit on this farmer’s wheat.
    Now, multiply all this by all the Western Canadian farmers and all their grains that are required to be sold to the CWB…
    I’m a city boy, and don’t know anything about the economics of grain farming. I’d really like to read comments from some knowledgeable people on my numbers and whether they’re overall representative of what Western Canadian grain farmers are getting from the CWB.

  12. Hi I’m Joe from Broken Shovel, Saskatchewan. I work at the COOP. Please tell me.
    A: How many loaves of bread can you bake with a bushel of wheat?
    B: Is there a metric equivalent to the bushel?

  13. Joe
    a standard bushel of wheat weighs 60 lbs yields 50lbs of flour makes 50 loaves of bread.
    bushel is a volume measure… we weigh the grain to determine the volume….then weigh a specific volume to determine the bushel weight….yep just as screwed up as the cwb.
    1 bushel = .8 ft3 =28.3 l

  14. There is no Yukon listed on that petition. I guess the eastern establishment don’t think we rubes in the North could have an opinion on anything besides transfer payments, trips down south and mukluks. I believe that could be a Human Right issue.

  15. @ tim m, would not the number of loaves per bushel also depend on somewhat on the quality and type of loaf? For example, a loaf of white gumbo as compared to a good quality 100% whole wheat.

  16. Hey Splat?
    Ya think maybe if the CWB had actually done a reasonable job there wouldn’t be this sort opposition to them?
    That’s the difference between that and your other silly examples, the other items do a half assed job and have some social goods most of the time. There could be reasonable opposition to removing them.
    If your code inspectors where forcing aircraft to only fly in 100mile hops, and houses to be under 800sq ft, they’d be gone too.

  17. Joe the Baker @ 12:42. As stated earlier, a bushel is a volume unit and is measured as pounds per bushel. Rather than pounds per bushel, Canada measures wheat and other grains using the metric kilogram per hectolitre. There is a formula for determining these weights based on filling and weighing the volume of a smaller unit. For instance, the Canadian Grain Commission uses the weight of a 0.5 litre Ohaus unit to determine Kg/Hl.

  18. Thomas, we are not eurotrash, try english.
    All my years in the trucking industry we use imperial measurements, we still do to this day.
    When I get a load in metric (rarely) I gotta convert it to something usable. One more example of socialist WASTE.

  20. Joe the baker; The grain industry is not as simple as you say.Wheat is sold by the farmer by the bushel and bought by the grain company by the tonne.It is loaded on to rail cars by the tonne and billed by the railways by the bushel.It is unloaded from the rail car by the bushel and stored in the terminal by the tonne.When the wheat is sold to a purchaser it is sold by the bushel in U.S.A dollars.It is unloaded from the elevator in tonnes and loaded on the ships in bushels.Real simple isnt it.

  22. Spike, cars of grain are unloaded into terminal elevators and grain is loaded onto vessels, in Canada, by the tonne. Sorry “Free”.

  23. They are diting the crap out of it casue i posted a funny one , and not even five minutes later it was removed!! i would love to set a time and have like 5k peopel just start posting funny stuff , and bombard there system ..lol .that would be funny!!

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