Ya, things are gonna be so fantastic when the monopoly is gone right? Cause everyone knows monopolies are such a poor business model. That's why Forbes 400 #1 (Carlos Helu) and #2 (Bill Gates) are rolling pennies for gas money, their monopolies have kept them poor. You anti-board guys are a bunch of morons. Have fun with your dispersal auctions.
Makes you wonder what the wheat board supporters will do the first time they roll into an elevator with a load of wheat. Will they walk the talk and sell for an estimated $8 later on or use common sense and take the $9 today. I think we all know the answer.
Let alone the racism, this video is ridiculous, I can't actually believe that anyone agrees with the message here, the CWB character is such a strawman. I can't even put to words how poorly argumented this is. The Conservatives havn't learned since the time of Gallileo about false debates...
What is the big deal? What is so wrong about saying Eskimo? Thats what I was taught when I was a kid, and I am only 20. Besides whinning about the use of the word Eskimo is only detering people from the facts, and fact is the Canadian Wheat Board is out of control.
After the CBC segment there seems to be some controversy over the phrase "you are talking Eskimo." So let me give a word of explanation. I was born in the North West Territories in 1979 and my birth certificate was written in both English and Eskimo (as it was called in 1979). Listening to CWB propaganda made me sometimes think that they were talking a completely different language. Hence the phrase.
@TheSaskFarmer The Inuit of Canada do take issue with the way "Eskimo" is being used in this video, in this day and age it is pejorative when used in the wrong way - we respectfully request that the audio be altered to remove it.
@TheSaskFarmer Your explanation is weak. Why use an incorrect and offensive word when you could have simply used the the word "gibberish" or something similar. You also could have easily used "Greek" which is quite common as in "It's all Greek to me."
@TheSaskFarmer I understand what you say, but just because something was done more than 30 years ago doesn't mean it's acceptable today. Things change, usually for the better. And the same phrase "you are talking Esk###" also appears in your Pt II video on the same CWB topic. It must be part of your regular lexicon. We can say these things without thinking - I know I have. Give it some thought eh?
@TheSaskFarmer no explanation should be required. The CBC is brutal, finding any little thing they can to make ordinary Canadians look bad. No idea how they can think the way you use Eskimo as being derogatory. Pretty weak in my opinion.
This video is a true distortion. The CWB's goal is to get the best prices for farmers. They do not keep farmer prices low. The stresses talked about are truly caused by multi-national companies like Cargill, ADM, Monsanto, Potash, CNR & CP Rail. These companies will up their prices if they have the chance.They want vertical integration. Getting rid of the CWB will make these stresses worse. The CWB is not communist it is farmer run. See more at friendsofcwb.ca and cwbafacts.ca.
This cartoon is nonsense. Who do the conservatives think they are fooling. oh yeah they are playing to the folks who can be fooled all of the time. I guess there are enough of them as they got their majority. Heaven help the country.
@angryjukebox What on Earth is that supposed to mean? That all of the people who live in the Canadian Midwest are confused and uneducated and did not attend some liberal arts school like you? That is honestly one of the most insulting things about Liberals and left wingers, you think everyone who doesn't agree with you is simply ignorant and uneducated. Besides what you just said has nothing to do with the Canadian Wheat Board, and this whole Eskimo thing is just another way to deter this.
Unfortunately for you orvandpee1 were gonna get out of this communist system no matter what because we have a great conservative gove that keeps it's promises. You need to quit speaking Eskimo
This video is stupid. I've met most of the head CWB guys, not one has threatened me or demanded to be called mr. The plebiscite results are in. A majority of grain farmers want to keep the CWB monopoly. Whine all you like about the plebiscite's validity, it wasn't perfectly slated for either argument. And if the results were 60% against it, rather than 60% for it, none of you anti Board guys would be saying who should and shouldn't have voted. It is what it is Mr Ritz, support democracy!
I live and work with Alberta farmers, I use there grain in my bakery in Calgary, all of the farmers that I deal with support the CWB, the CWB does not set or control the price of wheat, and that is only the beginning of what is wrong with this.
@maml2011 No of course they don't "set" the price of wheat. They do, however, take a good chunk of their sale price for internal use. And they can never guarantee what you will receive for your wheat. Every other crop the farmer can set when and where and at what price he will sell. With the CWB, they have no competition and basically tells the farmer to "wait and see how good we run our business this year" before they decide on payment. Its a monopoly on buying NOT selling.
Well, maybe we have reason to hope now after the election? I just watched a news clip in Winnipeg on a farmer who was "very worried" on how he would survive without a wheatboard. And the clip they showed was of him dumping canola!! I loved it!
I can't penetrate all of the sarcasm in this video. Is the video making the argument that the wheat board is making wheat more scarce and expensive as well as giving farmers a lower price for their crop? If that's what's happening then you need to scrap this wheat board ASAP.
UPDATE...... from Nov 30 to Jan 24, 2011 MGE (Minneapolis Grain Exchange) went up $1.91 per bushel and Fxed Price only went up went up 0.71...where does the extra money go????....ahh to pad the pool...
"retarded concervatives"?... yes perhaps I am a "retard" but I'm also a business man.......more appropriately..... "leninimagined" (the Russian Marxist revolutionary and communist politician)......"someday you may join us and the world will live as one".....
Ha Ha Ha.... more appropriately..... "leninimagined" (the Russian Marxist revolutionary and communist politician)...and yes perhaps I am a "retard" but I'm also a business man..."someday you may join us and the world will live as one".....
lennonimagined: I don't think conservatives have a monopoly on common sense.
The fight against the CWB is not new. 15 years ago I was part of a protest that successfully sold durum wheat in North Dakota for $1 more than I would have received for this grain in Canada. Most reasonable people would understand this issue if they could see all the facts. Vested interests put up smoke and mirrors to stop this however.
Having no choice compared with farmers outside the "Western Canadian Wheat Board" violates my charter of rights and freedoms...why aren't farmers from Ont. Que, and all other provinces that are not "subjects" of the WCWB not fighting to be apart of our exclusive marketing board?
Great video. So truthful. western Canada wheat growers should take serious action against the CWB, except we cant afford to because we don't get paid for 16 months. I wonder how many wheat board employees wait 16 months for a paycheck?
I'd like to know if those who market their Canola and other non-board products would be in favour of marketing their Canola in the same manner we do through the CWB..."1st make a A series contract wait for a delivery call..once delivered get paid 25-30%of the current market $ and wait...and wait for the rest of YOUR money...or do a Fixed Price with you Canola but ONLY off the Dec Futures.Funny FP never seems 2 keep up with the market back just enough so that the pool looks as good..Well?
Who is this 008Sask guy? $8.33 per bu is BEFORE the deductions. You farm in Sask I assume by your name so take off $1.63 that the CWB "predicts" will be the deduction.
Here in Tennessee I deal with Cargill. I get paid on the Tuesday and Thursday every week that I deliver grain. There is no dockage. Cargill even sends me text messages when the price has gone up to see if I want to contract. The "BIG BAD GRAIN COMPANIES" have been so nice to deal with compared to the CWB on our other farm in SASK
$0.75 /bu increase on Minneapolis in last 3 trading sessions our FPC increased only $0.25. We had 18% protein this year 17% last year (very poor yields) CWB only pays up to 15% . Had offers by millers but can't sell direct or just too much hassle to do so.
Just who is the difference going to on both counts.
This video is so true. We farm 20 miles from US border and we can't sell to the states. Who ever figures on 8.33/bu for wheat must have waited a very long time for the final payement, and paid a lot of cost of carry. Let the wheat board stay but give me a choice.
Ask any business owner if they would accept an initial payment of 20% and then wait 16 months for the remainder of the projected price the consumer might or might not pay! Try that when you buy your next car!
This is a very good portrayal of the frustration our family experiences every year when dealing with the CWB! All we want is the freedom to choose where we market "our grain"! Just give us a choice!!!
Do your math, this is how it pencils out for me on my farm. Yellow mustard - ($11.38/bu x 30bu/ac) - $180 (cost of production) = $161.25/ac profit, Peas (6.19 x 40bu) -175 = $72.6, Triticale - ($ 4.25 x 50) - 155 = 57.5, Lentils (13.5 x 25) - 180 = 157.50, Canola (11.5 x 35) - 230 = 172.5, Feed barley (4.5 x 60) - 150 = 120, Wheat PRO 13.5 ($8.33/bu x 40bu/ac) - $160/ac = 173.20. Conclusion ... wheat is the clear winner for me. Careful what you wish for guys.
@088sask did you factor in your cost of carry for the interest you pay on production loans? and how often has the pool been $8.33 per bushel? once in 60 years?
do the math again where are you getting 8.33 for wheat.
Sorry you forgot freight and elevation and no interest on your money. So really HRS is costing you money. It takes 18 months to get paid. Do the math. Must have missed that class.
@088sask Hey the numbers don't lie BUT I think you are trying to make it work....
As in, if you get 40bu wht you should get more then 60 bly.. usually. And how often do you get a #1red low fus grade anyway? ( By the way the CWB does NOT sell using those grades... buyers use falling number NOT color )
Also noticeably absent was canola, oats ( which have gone up considerably since the board dropped them ). In my area south MB it is all canola, soybeans, and corn.
@088sask Take you cost of carrying your wheat for at least 8 months before any real return is realised from the cwb and then you need at least 9.50 a bu. The wheat boards only marketing stratedgy is incromental selling and that we all know will get us maybe in the 50 percentile of market price. Anybody can market like that and at least give them a choice.
@088sask - Your simple math is an example of why some people "believe" the CWB is making them money. I know you have been burned on this already in this forum but lets take a sask example of freight and elevation on your wheat. You should pay attention because it is your bottom line we are talking about.
1 CWRS 13.5% (PS good luck with that) = $8.33 - $1.63 = $6.70 x 40 - $160 = $108 profit
conclusion ...wheat is the clear loser even in your example.
This is a very good video that describes them bang on, their mandate is to move the grain they dont have to get any price and they are respondsible to no one they even told us that. Do you think they will give us a good price since we cannot take the grain buyer out to dinner but the governments they sell the grain to sure do.
If even one farmer wants to sell his grain on the open market he should have the right to do so.The CWB has a monopoly on buying grain not selling it so they can not get any better price for the farmer .The CWB does not have any faciliteis to handle clean or store grain they are nothing more than a layer of beauocracy that is costing the western canadian farmer hundreds of millions of dollars a year
Your view count has been going up as regularily as clockwork the past six days; approx. 3,000 views per day. The view rate is very steady even in the middle of the night. It appears that you are using a program designed to automatically open up the video which then registers another view. This gives you a high view count number even if only 50 people have bothered to view the video.Tell us the truth on this one.
Probably the reason it's getting so many hits is its been mentioned on ag talk boards all over the world the past week and been making its rounds on farmers emails.
I see you posted your own video as rebuttal LOL!
At first I though you were just a creation of "thesaskfarmer" to create debate on the board here as your dialogue & attitude was a bit too much like Mr. Smith in the above video. Now I don't know what to think maybe you are actually for real.
@truth1234567890 I suggest you actually look at the traffic analysis. It was posted on a few very large farming forums and as such has spread pretty steadily. Also, you realize that individual IP addresses are now monitored by Youtube and don't record multiple hits, right? Used to be easy, now...not so much.
this is the best video ever describing in a simplistic way of the wheat boards communistic monopoly. thank you for this and everyone please forward this to everyone you know. we need to open peoples eyey to the sickening one sided blunder that is the wheat board.
I think the CWB days are numbered. All young farmers (the few that exist) will not tolerate the nonsense of the CWB. The mandates and policys are discouraging or making it nearly impossible for young people to enter the industry. According to Stats Can, there has been a steady decrease in the percentage of young farmers. In 2006 only 9.1% of all farmers were under 35. I suspect that is even lower now. What will the future of agriculture be? Cudos to TheSaskFarmer for starting a REVOLT!
This video is FANTASTIC! I am a producer with 7000 acres in west central Saskatchewan and couldn't agree more with this. We are currently in our 4th continuous year of growing basically anything BUT wheat and barley. We have been rotating between lentils and canola, as well as a small amount of ethanol wheat (only due to crop rotation needs), and will NEVER EVER go back to wheat or barley unless there is some sort of drastic change in the system. I will grow grass before boards grain!
The major reason i quit farming is because of the CWB,I am very right wing but had to play by rules of a socialist selling board.I could grow,harvest and truck my barley to a malting plant and have to surrender thousands of dollars to the CWB because ???? Maybe young farmers don,t remember farmers making border runs with their grain to get strong american price for their grain and get thrown in jail because of it.The CWB days are nearing a end,keep voting right to assure this!
well done. this is the sort of thing that needs to start happening more...put on pressure to enact change. the CWB was a fantastic tool for western Canada in the past. But the theory and reality are far apart and that spread is what farmers bear by not being able to market their product for the highest value. And more importantly...in a free market country, how in the world can a government justify putting someone in jail for selling their product to who they want! Time for a reality check!
This tells the story in a few minutes.The Wheat Board's PR department releases a multi-million dollar virus, promoting ITSELF, into every media outlet they advertise in. They scoop up the Western farmers' own money to build more and bigger departments.
This video epitomizes the nerve the CWB taunts. And mainstream media protect their CWB advertising budgets. And the governments, all of them, lick their lips. Money. Every day. Flowing in like water from grain bins. Canadian, isn't it.
I'm curious to know who has the stats showing that the majority of farmers in western Canada support the CWB. I do marketing/consulting and really have yet to find someone who supports the board and how they do things...
It seems that a lot of the time the board tries to make the PPO's so confusing that guys just throw it in the pool and then the board takes this as a sign that the majority of farmers support the pooling system...
Even the CWB's PPO's are tied to the pooled price, so the the cash plus contract. The CWB knows what farmers are asking of it, they simply do not care. The PPO's are infact a cruel joke. Many farmers are scared of the big companies, however when Canada Malt abused hundreds of farmers under a high priced cash plus, the CWB did nothing. When pressed the CWB said Canada Malt was a huge client. THere you go, keeping prices low since the 1940's
I can't believe that viewers are falling for your propoganda. You are not listing any facts, just b.s. Why not take an accurate look at how things really work, and make come educated comments & then decisions... talk to Australian farmers that have lost their marketing board & see how well they are doing. Perhaps you are too involved in politics to see things clearly.
@mnunweiler Technically it is propaganda, propaganda is technically a "dissemination of information as a political strategy". Not that I am on the CWB side or anything.
Technically not. If you grow wheat, barley or durum you have no control over what price you are able to achieve nor how much you can sell. What is so hard to figure out about that. THere is probably more marketing freedom in the big red machine than in Canada. The system is an absolute joke, and you that support it are disillusioned.
Well done and so true. We have pulled our entire acreage out of wheat production. We grow oats, canola, flax, peas, and raise cattle. The CWB is only interested in making the food industry money. I figure if the goverment wants a cheap food policy the I will not follow the blind sheep. I will seed all my 4000 acres to grass and let it sit, rather then grow cheap food and have no money to provide my family a resonable life.
I challenge truth1234567890 about the strategies and tactical blunders that the 'anti-CWB' folks make. What do Western Canadian farmers have to do in order to gain marketing freedom for their own wheat and barley in this country? I know this is a light humoured cartoon, but the matter at hand is very serious and you are trying to blow this off as a fictitious point of view that most farmers have. Try googling 'Andy McMechan CWB' and read up on innocent farmers jailed for selling their product.
Right on. Thanks for telling it the way it is. The only farmers that support the wheat board are either too lazy or too dumb to market wheat themselves so they rely on the MIGHTY CWB to do it for them.
I am from Ontario and I discovered the Wheat Board this past summer while buying farm land in Saskatchewan. This cartoon is *NOT* an exaggeration for comedic purposes. This entity actually exists in Canada and all of this is true. It is not possible that in 2010 such an entity exists and is constitutionally legal. This is not some overblown reaction or a disgruntled group that has been wronger trying to humor others. The Canadian Wheat Board *ACTUALLY* works like that. It's mind boggling.
I enjoyed this. Very informative. Had heard some of it before but this helped me better realize what the situation is. Thanks for mixing in the humor. Well done.
Being a farmer in the USA I didn't know much about the CWB. You guys up north are getting screwed if this is true. Whoever made this by the way is a genius, I was thoroughly entertained and informed.
The comments on this cartoon are censored and only negative comments critical of the CWB are allowed to appear. This sounds like another front page story for the farm press. Oh you know it does.....or do you? Why do the anti-CWB folks always make so many strategic and tactical blunders???
This little cartoon has satire, exxageration and even a few lies.The goal of TheSaskFarmer and allies is to move to an open market system where economic Darwinism will cause a steady stream of farm failures allowing the proponents (or the ones who really are as smart as they think they are) to acquire land at distress sale prices. The CWB is there to ensure that ALL farmers have equal access to premium markets and price increases . MOST FARMERS DO SUPPORT THE CWB- AND THAT"S THE TRUTH!
Which comments were lies? Some of the outcomes of the board are probably not their intention, but one would never know it the way they try to keep their fingers in our businesses.
Yeah the video only shows one side of the "debate" and a lot of teh point are made in a comical fashion. But come on, "most farmers support it" ??? I don't know where you live but here in the prairies the ONLY famers I have have talked to that have supported it are either :
a) usually "elderly" and not used to doing their own marketing for their own grain. Don't want to make decisions for themselves.
@truth1234567890 - Your statement 'most farmers support the CWB being true' interests me. Some do support the CWB, that is fine. However, those who do support the system don't want to take 'risk' in making a decision to sell on their own. They'd rather deliver grain, wait for payment, regardless if their payment is below true market value or not. The CWB is NOT preventing farmers from failing! I will access premium markets when I produce premium products! The CWB does not offer this to me.
Lets just hand the control of marketing over to Viterra and Cargill. Therefore we will no longer have to worry about the painful job of depositing that final payment, don't worry Viterra and Cargill will be happy to take that. Why do you think these large companies also want rid of the CWB? The cost of running the CWB is less then what the CWB receives in interest from customers. Also, why does the potash sector run under monopolies? It because they can extract more money out of markets?
@088sask Well Viterra does not have a monopoly on our grain yet!! God forbid that happens! There is still and will always be a healthy competition for your canola, oats, rye, feed grains etc. But not for your wheat. We have oats millers here, canola crushers here etc etc. But NO new wheat mills!! We send wheat daily to the big mills in the states.
I work in a smaller grain company and it bothers me when I read comments like "the big bad grain companies just wanna screw farmers".
@088sask might want to consider a reality check. this fall everywhere else in the world feed barley and feed wheat was $1 to $2 more a bushel. We were shut out of that market because of the monopoly and the wheat board. The wheat board structure is fundamentally to slow to react to markets properly. It is inefficient, ineffective, and outdated. the monopoly is an illusion. customers can buy wheat anywhere eliminating the possibility of so called premiums the cwb is supposed to extract for us.
@088sask We have a farm in Saskatchewan and a farm in Tennessee. We deal with the CWB in Sask, obviously, and in Tennessee we deal with Cargill. I sold my winter wheat for $6.10 per bushel this year. My Dad sold the equivalent in Canada for $3.30. Here in Tennessee, Cargill has no dockage, I get paid two times per week. If I deliver on Monday, I get the full cheque on Tuesday. Do your research and stop being so ignorant.
This is so very true. Many farmers in my area are getting out of growing wheat and durum, growing non board grains and not applying for a permit book.
The guy or girl that wrote the dialogue for this video should get some kind of medal or something. That is just about the most honest description of the wheat board I have ever heard.
@BobDevine13 should also get a medal for demonstrating "farmer math." He was very excited to get $7/bu at the beginning, in middle he was doubtful $1.50 would even cover 20% of expenses. $1.50/20%=$7.50 (LOL... from optimist to pessimist in 6 minutes)
the only way to get the CWB to understand is to raise crops that do not go into a concrete elevator i.e. canola, lentil, pea, canary seed, camelina, feed barley (screw malt because of the CWB), oats and now in certain areas of Sask. soybeans...all of which can be picked up on the farm or off the combine screw the wheat board and forget them all together let the rest of the world grow wheat....oh did I mentioned NO ONE else in the world grows hard red spring wheat with protein @ 14% or higher
This video as funny as it is, is the basic truth. People wonder why farmers still grow wheat?? It is still one of the best crops to grow from an agronomic standpoint in many areas of western Canada. We should not have to quit growing wheat because of the Canadian Wheatboard
So do farmers grown wheat because its what they know?
Why not stop growing it and basically hold the CWB hostage until they go bankrupt?
If this cartoon is accurate it does in fact make farmers look stupid for growing the product (since doing so makes you a part of the CWB), since collective action is to set a fair and accurate price and not to under cut the price. Therefore there is nobody to blame but yourselves.
@YiuTeub Farmers generally have to grow wheat or barley (malt barley is also under CWB control) as a rotational crop. You cannot just grow canola, peas, chickpeas, and other broadleaved crops on the same field year after year or you will end up with disease and weed issues. Good stewardship of the land requires a proper crop rotation including cereal crops like wheat and barley.
@YiuTeub We grow it for land management for weed control. Its easier to get rid of your weeds in wheat and durum . If you continuous crop lentil peas and chick peas there gets to be alot of disease in your crops, which kills the plants. The straw puts a lot of nutrients back in the soil. Also you might notice the lack of pasta and bread if we all quit growing it! The cartoon is accurate!
The CWB is financed by the government and guaranteed success as a monopoly. You should rotate wheat into your cropping for rotation, and when that time comes you really have limited options other than to haul to the CWB. However you nailed it when you say we have no one to blame but ourselves, as 50% of farmers have held the other 50% hostage for years out of fear, miss-information and mere cowardliness.
This is for real! This kind of information needs to be shared with the rest of Canada. Canadians outside of agriculture (or at least outside of Western Canadian Agriculture) need to understand how important of an issue this is and how it is affecting their businesses (family farms). The ONLY way to change the system is to influence federal government (including opposition government) to allow marketing freedoms with CWB grains.
This is not a good video. I'm looking for real information as to the Wheat Board, and this piece of crap video is the best you can come up with?
MrSupertwo 2 months ago
wow so glad bill c 18 passed because watching this makes me wanna throw my computer at the wall the cwb should b in jail CROOKS
cousinsfarms 2 months ago
Good news today! The monopoly is gone! Good day for Prairie farmers!
CanadianBacon756 2 months ago
Ya, things are gonna be so fantastic when the monopoly is gone right? Cause everyone knows monopolies are such a poor business model. That's why Forbes 400 #1 (Carlos Helu) and #2 (Bill Gates) are rolling pennies for gas money, their monopolies have kept them poor. You anti-board guys are a bunch of morons. Have fun with your dispersal auctions.
Crystalrainenergy 3 months ago
it is easy to see this is political rehtoric to try and cover up the undemocratic and illegal actions of our dictator STEPHEN HARPER!!!
homerca1 3 months ago
Say goodbye monopoly !
hardyseeds 4 months ago
Makes you wonder what the wheat board supporters will do the first time they roll into an elevator with a load of wheat. Will they walk the talk and sell for an estimated $8 later on or use common sense and take the $9 today. I think we all know the answer.
ohreallyandwhyisthat 4 months ago
Let alone the racism, this video is ridiculous, I can't actually believe that anyone agrees with the message here, the CWB character is such a strawman. I can't even put to words how poorly argumented this is. The Conservatives havn't learned since the time of Gallileo about false debates...
skuzabut 4 months ago
What is the big deal? What is so wrong about saying Eskimo? Thats what I was taught when I was a kid, and I am only 20. Besides whinning about the use of the word Eskimo is only detering people from the facts, and fact is the Canadian Wheat Board is out of control.
ZachGriff11 4 months ago
After the CBC segment there seems to be some controversy over the phrase "you are talking Eskimo." So let me give a word of explanation. I was born in the North West Territories in 1979 and my birth certificate was written in both English and Eskimo (as it was called in 1979). Listening to CWB propaganda made me sometimes think that they were talking a completely different language. Hence the phrase.
TheSaskFarmer 4 months ago
@TheSaskFarmer The Inuit of Canada do take issue with the way "Eskimo" is being used in this video, in this day and age it is pejorative when used in the wrong way - we respectfully request that the audio be altered to remove it.
inuitofcanada 4 months ago
@TheSaskFarmer Pretty weak explanation.
jasondfleroux 4 months ago
@TheSaskFarmer Pretty weak explanation. Why not just say "You're talking gibberish."
jasondfleroux 4 months ago
@TheSaskFarmer Your explanation is weak. Why use an incorrect and offensive word when you could have simply used the the word "gibberish" or something similar. You also could have easily used "Greek" which is quite common as in "It's all Greek to me."
jasondfleroux 4 months ago
@TheSaskFarmer Your explanation is weak. Why use an archaic, inappropriate word when a word like "gibberish" would do?
jasondfleroux 4 months ago
@jasondfleroux Cause its his video. Everyone is making a big deal out of nothing. Its the way he was raised, leave him alone
CanadianBacon756 4 months ago
@TheSaskFarmer I understand what you say, but just because something was done more than 30 years ago doesn't mean it's acceptable today. Things change, usually for the better. And the same phrase "you are talking Esk###" also appears in your Pt II video on the same CWB topic. It must be part of your regular lexicon. We can say these things without thinking - I know I have. Give it some thought eh?
bsg1006 4 months ago
@TheSaskFarmer no explanation should be required. The CBC is brutal, finding any little thing they can to make ordinary Canadians look bad. No idea how they can think the way you use Eskimo as being derogatory. Pretty weak in my opinion.
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This video is a true distortion. The CWB's goal is to get the best prices for farmers. They do not keep farmer prices low. The stresses talked about are truly caused by multi-national companies like Cargill, ADM, Monsanto, Potash, CNR & CP Rail. These companies will up their prices if they have the chance.They want vertical integration. Getting rid of the CWB will make these stresses worse. The CWB is not communist it is farmer run. See more at friendsofcwb.ca and cwbafacts.ca.
DeanHarderComedy 4 months ago 3
This cartoon is nonsense. Who do the conservatives think they are fooling. oh yeah they are playing to the folks who can be fooled all of the time. I guess there are enough of them as they got their majority. Heaven help the country.
angryjukebox 4 months ago 3
@angryjukebox What on Earth is that supposed to mean? That all of the people who live in the Canadian Midwest are confused and uneducated and did not attend some liberal arts school like you? That is honestly one of the most insulting things about Liberals and left wingers, you think everyone who doesn't agree with you is simply ignorant and uneducated. Besides what you just said has nothing to do with the Canadian Wheat Board, and this whole Eskimo thing is just another way to deter this.
ZachGriff11 4 months ago
Unfortunately for you orvandpee1 were gonna get out of this communist system no matter what because we have a great conservative gove that keeps it's promises. You need to quit speaking Eskimo
hardyseeds 4 months ago
This video is stupid. I've met most of the head CWB guys, not one has threatened me or demanded to be called mr. The plebiscite results are in. A majority of grain farmers want to keep the CWB monopoly. Whine all you like about the plebiscite's validity, it wasn't perfectly slated for either argument. And if the results were 60% against it, rather than 60% for it, none of you anti Board guys would be saying who should and shouldn't have voted. It is what it is Mr Ritz, support democracy!
OrvandPee1 5 months ago 3
This would be funny if it were not true.
gerrysauto 7 months ago
I live and work with Alberta farmers, I use there grain in my bakery in Calgary, all of the farmers that I deal with support the CWB, the CWB does not set or control the price of wheat, and that is only the beginning of what is wrong with this.
maml2011 7 months ago
@maml2011 No of course they don't "set" the price of wheat. They do, however, take a good chunk of their sale price for internal use. And they can never guarantee what you will receive for your wheat. Every other crop the farmer can set when and where and at what price he will sell. With the CWB, they have no competition and basically tells the farmer to "wait and see how good we run our business this year" before they decide on payment. Its a monopoly on buying NOT selling.
ohreallyandwhyisthat 7 months ago
Well, maybe we have reason to hope now after the election? I just watched a news clip in Winnipeg on a farmer who was "very worried" on how he would survive without a wheatboard. And the clip they showed was of him dumping canola!! I loved it!
ohreallyandwhyisthat 10 months ago
These people need to die.
as in the CWB!
quarterpint87 11 months ago
Why can't people just grow food in dirt and not have anyone to come along and say you can't do that for whatever foolish reason.
101101101777 1 year ago
Wow! Someones a hater!
oOIreland21Oo 1 year ago
I can't penetrate all of the sarcasm in this video. Is the video making the argument that the wheat board is making wheat more scarce and expensive as well as giving farmers a lower price for their crop? If that's what's happening then you need to scrap this wheat board ASAP.
1982CFD 1 year ago
@1982CFD There is no sarcasm. This is actually how the wheat board operates.
whiteshadow204 9 months ago 3
UPDATE...... from Nov 30 to Jan 24, 2011 MGE (Minneapolis Grain Exchange) went up $1.91 per bushel and Fxed Price only went up went up 0.71...where does the extra money go????....ahh to pad the pool...
evadnine 1 year ago
"retarded concervatives"?... yes perhaps I am a "retard" but I'm also a business man.......more appropriately..... "leninimagined" (the Russian Marxist revolutionary and communist politician)......"someday you may join us and the world will live as one".....
evadnine 1 year ago
Ha Ha Ha.... more appropriately..... "leninimagined" (the Russian Marxist revolutionary and communist politician)...and yes perhaps I am a "retard" but I'm also a business man..."someday you may join us and the world will live as one".....
evadnine 1 year ago
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evadnine 1 year ago
lennonimagined: I don't think conservatives have a monopoly on common sense.
The fight against the CWB is not new. 15 years ago I was part of a protest that successfully sold durum wheat in North Dakota for $1 more than I would have received for this grain in Canada. Most reasonable people would understand this issue if they could see all the facts. Vested interests put up smoke and mirrors to stop this however.
WestCentralSK 1 year ago 3
you are retarded conservatives
lennonimagined 1 year ago
Having no choice compared with farmers outside the "Western Canadian Wheat Board" violates my charter of rights and freedoms...why aren't farmers from Ont. Que, and all other provinces that are not "subjects" of the WCWB not fighting to be apart of our exclusive marketing board?
evadnine 1 year ago 5
Great video. So truthful. western Canada wheat growers should take serious action against the CWB, except we cant afford to because we don't get paid for 16 months. I wonder how many wheat board employees wait 16 months for a paycheck?
trevsq62 1 year ago 5
I am surprised the government of Canada has not flagged this video as "inappropriate".
JamalSquair 1 year ago
138 likes to 14 dislikes enough said.
2quik2c 1 year ago
I'd like to know if those who market their Canola and other non-board products would be in favour of marketing their Canola in the same manner we do through the CWB..."1st make a A series contract wait for a delivery call..once delivered get paid 25-30%of the current market $ and wait...and wait for the rest of YOUR money...or do a Fixed Price with you Canola but ONLY off the Dec Futures.Funny FP never seems 2 keep up with the market back just enough so that the pool looks as good..Well?
evadnine 1 year ago 2
Who is this 008Sask guy? $8.33 per bu is BEFORE the deductions. You farm in Sask I assume by your name so take off $1.63 that the CWB "predicts" will be the deduction.
Here in Tennessee I deal with Cargill. I get paid on the Tuesday and Thursday every week that I deliver grain. There is no dockage. Cargill even sends me text messages when the price has gone up to see if I want to contract. The "BIG BAD GRAIN COMPANIES" have been so nice to deal with compared to the CWB on our other farm in SASK
cerrado33 1 year ago 4
$0.75 /bu increase on Minneapolis in last 3 trading sessions our FPC increased only $0.25. We had 18% protein this year 17% last year (very poor yields) CWB only pays up to 15% . Had offers by millers but can't sell direct or just too much hassle to do so.
Just who is the difference going to on both counts.
thenortherner123 1 year ago 4
@thenortherner123 and where do you think that extra $.50 per bushel goes? it goes to subsidize the pool just like the video says.
pinchnloaf 1 year ago
Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!
evadnine 1 year ago 2
isnt that the truth!
Some day our politicians in Ottawa will have the guts to change the system.
GinoFBP 1 year ago 3
14 people want to loose money!
sportsfannumberone 1 year ago 3
@sportsfannumberone nah. being communists those 14 people want to be buying grain from china.
mars3750 1 year ago 2
Well the election is almost over and King Harper and the boys finally raised the Initial Payments.
legithax0r 1 year ago
Great Job! that is the best explanation of the screwing we in western Canada are getting outside of our coffee shop..
thenortherner123 1 year ago
This video is so true. We farm 20 miles from US border and we can't sell to the states. Who ever figures on 8.33/bu for wheat must have waited a very long time for the final payement, and paid a lot of cost of carry. Let the wheat board stay but give me a choice.
greyhawkfarmer 1 year ago
the 12 people that dislike this work for the CWB
TomasDavis01 1 year ago 5
Ask any business owner if they would accept an initial payment of 20% and then wait 16 months for the remainder of the projected price the consumer might or might not pay! Try that when you buy your next car!
111alberta 1 year ago 11
This is a very good portrayal of the frustration our family experiences every year when dealing with the CWB! All we want is the freedom to choose where we market "our grain"! Just give us a choice!!!
111alberta 1 year ago 6
Do your math, this is how it pencils out for me on my farm. Yellow mustard - ($11.38/bu x 30bu/ac) - $180 (cost of production) = $161.25/ac profit, Peas (6.19 x 40bu) -175 = $72.6, Triticale - ($ 4.25 x 50) - 155 = 57.5, Lentils (13.5 x 25) - 180 = 157.50, Canola (11.5 x 35) - 230 = 172.5, Feed barley (4.5 x 60) - 150 = 120, Wheat PRO 13.5 ($8.33/bu x 40bu/ac) - $160/ac = 173.20. Conclusion ... wheat is the clear winner for me. Careful what you wish for guys.
088sask 1 year ago
@088sask did you factor in your cost of carry for the interest you pay on production loans? and how often has the pool been $8.33 per bushel? once in 60 years?
pinchnloaf 1 year ago 5
do the math again where are you getting 8.33 for wheat.
Sorry you forgot freight and elevation and no interest on your money. So really HRS is costing you money. It takes 18 months to get paid. Do the math. Must have missed that class.
kotyjo 1 year ago 5
@088sask Hey the numbers don't lie BUT I think you are trying to make it work....
As in, if you get 40bu wht you should get more then 60 bly.. usually. And how often do you get a #1red low fus grade anyway? ( By the way the CWB does NOT sell using those grades... buyers use falling number NOT color )
Also noticeably absent was canola, oats ( which have gone up considerably since the board dropped them ). In my area south MB it is all canola, soybeans, and corn.
ohreallyandwhyisthat 1 year ago 3
@088sask Take you cost of carrying your wheat for at least 8 months before any real return is realised from the cwb and then you need at least 9.50 a bu. The wheat boards only marketing stratedgy is incromental selling and that we all know will get us maybe in the 50 percentile of market price. Anybody can market like that and at least give them a choice.
greyhawkfarmer 1 year ago 2
@088sask - Your simple math is an example of why some people "believe" the CWB is making them money. I know you have been burned on this already in this forum but lets take a sask example of freight and elevation on your wheat. You should pay attention because it is your bottom line we are talking about.
1 CWRS 13.5% (PS good luck with that) = $8.33 - $1.63 = $6.70 x 40 - $160 = $108 profit
conclusion ...wheat is the clear loser even in your example.
PS that PRO is an estimate from your buyer
wcsaskfarmer 1 year ago 3
This is a very good video that describes them bang on, their mandate is to move the grain they dont have to get any price and they are respondsible to no one they even told us that. Do you think they will give us a good price since we cannot take the grain buyer out to dinner but the governments they sell the grain to sure do.
Mike700fi 1 year ago 10
This video describes the Canadian Wheat Board to a tee. Great job!!!
dmainil 1 year ago 7
This Video was on CTV News Regina today. haha, Nicce!
McDangleBrosTV 1 year ago 6
Wow is that the truth!
You can call me Sir. I work for the CWB.
I talked to him at agribition on friday. Sounded just the same I talk eskimo.
kotyjo 1 year ago 2
If even one farmer wants to sell his grain on the open market he should have the right to do so.The CWB has a monopoly on buying grain not selling it so they can not get any better price for the farmer .The CWB does not have any faciliteis to handle clean or store grain they are nothing more than a layer of beauocracy that is costing the western canadian farmer hundreds of millions of dollars a year
ninebrothers 1 year ago 6
This video is BANG ON!!
prairieboy123 1 year ago 3
For a more accurate version of flour milling and the CWB go to TheRealSaskFarmer.
Ryhpezx 1 year ago
This is so true and interesting how you step into Ontario and the cwb has no control. Just in western canada.
dmwiebe 1 year ago 2
Your view count has been going up as regularily as clockwork the past six days; approx. 3,000 views per day. The view rate is very steady even in the middle of the night. It appears that you are using a program designed to automatically open up the video which then registers another view. This gives you a high view count number even if only 50 people have bothered to view the video.Tell us the truth on this one.
truth1234567890 1 year ago
@truth1234567890
Probably the reason it's getting so many hits is its been mentioned on ag talk boards all over the world the past week and been making its rounds on farmers emails.
I see you posted your own video as rebuttal LOL!
At first I though you were just a creation of "thesaskfarmer" to create debate on the board here as your dialogue & attitude was a bit too much like Mr. Smith in the above video. Now I don't know what to think maybe you are actually for real.
haymaker1480 1 year ago
@truth1234567890 I suggest you actually look at the traffic analysis. It was posted on a few very large farming forums and as such has spread pretty steadily. Also, you realize that individual IP addresses are now monitored by Youtube and don't record multiple hits, right? Used to be easy, now...not so much.
novocaine1986 1 year ago 2
this is the best video ever describing in a simplistic way of the wheat boards communistic monopoly. thank you for this and everyone please forward this to everyone you know. we need to open peoples eyey to the sickening one sided blunder that is the wheat board.
pinchnloaf 1 year ago
I think the CWB days are numbered. All young farmers (the few that exist) will not tolerate the nonsense of the CWB. The mandates and policys are discouraging or making it nearly impossible for young people to enter the industry. According to Stats Can, there has been a steady decrease in the percentage of young farmers. In 2006 only 9.1% of all farmers were under 35. I suspect that is even lower now. What will the future of agriculture be? Cudos to TheSaskFarmer for starting a REVOLT!
80jbone 1 year ago 2
This video is FANTASTIC! I am a producer with 7000 acres in west central Saskatchewan and couldn't agree more with this. We are currently in our 4th continuous year of growing basically anything BUT wheat and barley. We have been rotating between lentils and canola, as well as a small amount of ethanol wheat (only due to crop rotation needs), and will NEVER EVER go back to wheat or barley unless there is some sort of drastic change in the system. I will grow grass before boards grain!
saskperson 1 year ago 6
The major reason i quit farming is because of the CWB,I am very right wing but had to play by rules of a socialist selling board.I could grow,harvest and truck my barley to a malting plant and have to surrender thousands of dollars to the CWB because ???? Maybe young farmers don,t remember farmers making border runs with their grain to get strong american price for their grain and get thrown in jail because of it.The CWB days are nearing a end,keep voting right to assure this!
dohman276 1 year ago 4
It is amazing how a communist system like the CWB can be forced upon only one part of the the country
ninebrothers 1 year ago 5
well done. this is the sort of thing that needs to start happening more...put on pressure to enact change. the CWB was a fantastic tool for western Canada in the past. But the theory and reality are far apart and that spread is what farmers bear by not being able to market their product for the highest value. And more importantly...in a free market country, how in the world can a government justify putting someone in jail for selling their product to who they want! Time for a reality check!
canadarules9871 1 year ago 5
If the CWB. is so great let us farmers opt out, in your eyes no one would want to opt out because it is soooo great!!!
saskfarmer1991 1 year ago 3
This tells the story in a few minutes.The Wheat Board's PR department releases a multi-million dollar virus, promoting ITSELF, into every media outlet they advertise in. They scoop up the Western farmers' own money to build more and bigger departments.
This video epitomizes the nerve the CWB taunts. And mainstream media protect their CWB advertising budgets. And the governments, all of them, lick their lips. Money. Every day. Flowing in like water from grain bins. Canadian, isn't it.
cesandeen 1 year ago 2
I'm curious to know who has the stats showing that the majority of farmers in western Canada support the CWB. I do marketing/consulting and really have yet to find someone who supports the board and how they do things...
It seems that a lot of the time the board tries to make the PPO's so confusing that guys just throw it in the pool and then the board takes this as a sign that the majority of farmers support the pooling system...
roju6 1 year ago 2
@roju6
Even the CWB's PPO's are tied to the pooled price, so the the cash plus contract. The CWB knows what farmers are asking of it, they simply do not care. The PPO's are infact a cruel joke. Many farmers are scared of the big companies, however when Canada Malt abused hundreds of farmers under a high priced cash plus, the CWB did nothing. When pressed the CWB said Canada Malt was a huge client. THere you go, keeping prices low since the 1940's
itobiuslee 1 year ago 3
I can't believe that viewers are falling for your propoganda. You are not listing any facts, just b.s. Why not take an accurate look at how things really work, and make come educated comments & then decisions... talk to Australian farmers that have lost their marketing board & see how well they are doing. Perhaps you are too involved in politics to see things clearly.
SuperSmartfarmer 1 year ago
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mnunweiler 1 year ago
@mnunweiler Technically it is propaganda, propaganda is technically a "dissemination of information as a political strategy". Not that I am on the CWB side or anything.
JoelTubesJoel 1 year ago
@JoelTubesJoel
Technically not. If you grow wheat, barley or durum you have no control over what price you are able to achieve nor how much you can sell. What is so hard to figure out about that. THere is probably more marketing freedom in the big red machine than in Canada. The system is an absolute joke, and you that support it are disillusioned.
itobiuslee 1 year ago 5
Well done and so true. We have pulled our entire acreage out of wheat production. We grow oats, canola, flax, peas, and raise cattle. The CWB is only interested in making the food industry money. I figure if the goverment wants a cheap food policy the I will not follow the blind sheep. I will seed all my 4000 acres to grass and let it sit, rather then grow cheap food and have no money to provide my family a resonable life.
january33 1 year ago 2
I challenge truth1234567890 about the strategies and tactical blunders that the 'anti-CWB' folks make. What do Western Canadian farmers have to do in order to gain marketing freedom for their own wheat and barley in this country? I know this is a light humoured cartoon, but the matter at hand is very serious and you are trying to blow this off as a fictitious point of view that most farmers have. Try googling 'Andy McMechan CWB' and read up on innocent farmers jailed for selling their product.
mnunweiler 1 year ago
There you go, talking Eskimo again.
chully99 1 year ago
Right on. Thanks for telling it the way it is. The only farmers that support the wheat board are either too lazy or too dumb to market wheat themselves so they rely on the MIGHTY CWB to do it for them.
FarmerMJL 1 year ago
My favorite was when he says "This sounds like Communism"
MennoKnight1 1 year ago
I am from Ontario and I discovered the Wheat Board this past summer while buying farm land in Saskatchewan. This cartoon is *NOT* an exaggeration for comedic purposes. This entity actually exists in Canada and all of this is true. It is not possible that in 2010 such an entity exists and is constitutionally legal. This is not some overblown reaction or a disgruntled group that has been wronger trying to humor others. The Canadian Wheat Board *ACTUALLY* works like that. It's mind boggling.
ejkitchen 1 year ago 3
I enjoyed this. Very informative. Had heard some of it before but this helped me better realize what the situation is. Thanks for mixing in the humor. Well done.
sunshinejoys 1 year ago
Notice that by discouraging people from farming, it means that wheat prices will actually end up higher...
1madmartagan1 1 year ago
Being a farmer in the USA I didn't know much about the CWB. You guys up north are getting screwed if this is true. Whoever made this by the way is a genius, I was thoroughly entertained and informed.
farmerboy4490 1 year ago 3
@farmerboy4490 It's usually the butt of 95% of all the jokes whenever we get together with our US milling customers.
ohreallyandwhyisthat 1 year ago
The comments on this cartoon are censored and only negative comments critical of the CWB are allowed to appear. This sounds like another front page story for the farm press. Oh you know it does.....or do you? Why do the anti-CWB folks always make so many strategic and tactical blunders???
truth1234567890 1 year ago
@truth1234567890
I am censoring, but only for profanity. Every other comment has been approved
TheSaskFarmer 1 year ago 41
so close to the truth ,it is sad how my father was victimized by the board after world war 2
Icewolfmadsen 1 year ago 3
@truth1234567890
Let me guess, this is probably some bureaucratic parasite working on the WB lol
6evorev6 1 year ago
Great Video
JayceRuzicka 1 year ago
Would be even funnier if it was not so true. I work for a grain export company an I can see everyday how the board screws farmers.
ohreallyandwhyisthat 1 year ago 3
This little cartoon has satire, exxageration and even a few lies.The goal of TheSaskFarmer and allies is to move to an open market system where economic Darwinism will cause a steady stream of farm failures allowing the proponents (or the ones who really are as smart as they think they are) to acquire land at distress sale prices. The CWB is there to ensure that ALL farmers have equal access to premium markets and price increases . MOST FARMERS DO SUPPORT THE CWB- AND THAT"S THE TRUTH!
truth1234567890 1 year ago
@truth1234567890
Which comments were lies? Some of the outcomes of the board are probably not their intention, but one would never know it the way they try to keep their fingers in our businesses.
I'll grant you it's satire.
gustgd76 1 year ago
@truth1234567890
Yeah the video only shows one side of the "debate" and a lot of teh point are made in a comical fashion. But come on, "most farmers support it" ??? I don't know where you live but here in the prairies the ONLY famers I have have talked to that have supported it are either :
a) usually "elderly" and not used to doing their own marketing for their own grain. Don't want to make decisions for themselves.
or
b) Have absolutely no idea how the board works.
ohreallyandwhyisthat 1 year ago 2
@truth1234567890 - Your statement 'most farmers support the CWB being true' interests me. Some do support the CWB, that is fine. However, those who do support the system don't want to take 'risk' in making a decision to sell on their own. They'd rather deliver grain, wait for payment, regardless if their payment is below true market value or not. The CWB is NOT preventing farmers from failing! I will access premium markets when I produce premium products! The CWB does not offer this to me.
mnunweiler 1 year ago
@truth1234567890 You must be a cwb employee
oilerman9406 1 year ago 5
Lets just hand the control of marketing over to Viterra and Cargill. Therefore we will no longer have to worry about the painful job of depositing that final payment, don't worry Viterra and Cargill will be happy to take that. Why do you think these large companies also want rid of the CWB? The cost of running the CWB is less then what the CWB receives in interest from customers. Also, why does the potash sector run under monopolies? It because they can extract more money out of markets?
088sask 1 year ago
@088sask Well Viterra does not have a monopoly on our grain yet!! God forbid that happens! There is still and will always be a healthy competition for your canola, oats, rye, feed grains etc. But not for your wheat. We have oats millers here, canola crushers here etc etc. But NO new wheat mills!! We send wheat daily to the big mills in the states.
I work in a smaller grain company and it bothers me when I read comments like "the big bad grain companies just wanna screw farmers".
ohreallyandwhyisthat 1 year ago 3
@088sask might want to consider a reality check. this fall everywhere else in the world feed barley and feed wheat was $1 to $2 more a bushel. We were shut out of that market because of the monopoly and the wheat board. The wheat board structure is fundamentally to slow to react to markets properly. It is inefficient, ineffective, and outdated. the monopoly is an illusion. customers can buy wheat anywhere eliminating the possibility of so called premiums the cwb is supposed to extract for us.
jfarm1966 1 year ago 2
@088sask We have a farm in Saskatchewan and a farm in Tennessee. We deal with the CWB in Sask, obviously, and in Tennessee we deal with Cargill. I sold my winter wheat for $6.10 per bushel this year. My Dad sold the equivalent in Canada for $3.30. Here in Tennessee, Cargill has no dockage, I get paid two times per week. If I deliver on Monday, I get the full cheque on Tuesday. Do your research and stop being so ignorant.
cerrado33 1 year ago 9
This is so very true. Many farmers in my area are getting out of growing wheat and durum, growing non board grains and not applying for a permit book.
86315100 1 year ago
cwb are crooks
Saskatchewanize 1 year ago
The guy or girl that wrote the dialogue for this video should get some kind of medal or something. That is just about the most honest description of the wheat board I have ever heard.
BobDevine13 1 year ago 74
@BobDevine13 should also get a medal for demonstrating "farmer math." He was very excited to get $7/bu at the beginning, in middle he was doubtful $1.50 would even cover 20% of expenses. $1.50/20%=$7.50 (LOL... from optimist to pessimist in 6 minutes)
AEP123 1 year ago
the only way to get the CWB to understand is to raise crops that do not go into a concrete elevator i.e. canola, lentil, pea, canary seed, camelina, feed barley (screw malt because of the CWB), oats and now in certain areas of Sask. soybeans...all of which can be picked up on the farm or off the combine screw the wheat board and forget them all together let the rest of the world grow wheat....oh did I mentioned NO ONE else in the world grows hard red spring wheat with protein @ 14% or higher
harutakanorra 1 year ago
This video as funny as it is, is the basic truth. People wonder why farmers still grow wheat?? It is still one of the best crops to grow from an agronomic standpoint in many areas of western Canada. We should not have to quit growing wheat because of the Canadian Wheatboard
shammy70s 1 year ago
So do farmers grown wheat because its what they know?
Why not stop growing it and basically hold the CWB hostage until they go bankrupt?
If this cartoon is accurate it does in fact make farmers look stupid for growing the product (since doing so makes you a part of the CWB), since collective action is to set a fair and accurate price and not to under cut the price. Therefore there is nobody to blame but yourselves.
YiuTeub 1 year ago
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poorfrmr 1 year ago
@YiuTeub Farmers generally have to grow wheat or barley (malt barley is also under CWB control) as a rotational crop. You cannot just grow canola, peas, chickpeas, and other broadleaved crops on the same field year after year or you will end up with disease and weed issues. Good stewardship of the land requires a proper crop rotation including cereal crops like wheat and barley.
poorfrmr 1 year ago 4
@YiuTeub We grow it for land management for weed control. Its easier to get rid of your weeds in wheat and durum . If you continuous crop lentil peas and chick peas there gets to be alot of disease in your crops, which kills the plants. The straw puts a lot of nutrients back in the soil. Also you might notice the lack of pasta and bread if we all quit growing it! The cartoon is accurate!
AAfarmgirl 1 year ago
@YiuTeub
The CWB is financed by the government and guaranteed success as a monopoly. You should rotate wheat into your cropping for rotation, and when that time comes you really have limited options other than to haul to the CWB. However you nailed it when you say we have no one to blame but ourselves, as 50% of farmers have held the other 50% hostage for years out of fear, miss-information and mere cowardliness.
itobiuslee 1 year ago
I never new how the wheat board worked. Now I feel kinda ticked off for the farmer. Is this for real? Shame, Shame, Shame.
ltjsh 1 year ago 4
@ltjsh
This is for real! This kind of information needs to be shared with the rest of Canada. Canadians outside of agriculture (or at least outside of Western Canadian Agriculture) need to understand how important of an issue this is and how it is affecting their businesses (family farms). The ONLY way to change the system is to influence federal government (including opposition government) to allow marketing freedoms with CWB grains.
mnunweiler 1 year ago 3
This is funny but somewhat true which makes it unfortunate.
"Slow down young man, you are talking eskimo"
That's funny.
roju6 1 year ago 2
You are talking eskimo Franklin! Haha. I wonder why wheat acreage keeps going down, and down, and down.....
poorfrmr 1 year ago
This is too funny (or rather it would be too funny if it wasn't such a disgrace)!
langbankplayer 1 year ago 3
That's why I don't raise wheat. Yes the CWB guy looks like Ward.
thebuffaloman1 1 year ago 4
People against the CWB are kinda weird
mewen0928 1 year ago
Only in Canada would such a system seem normal, taken for granted and no one in any hurry to abolish it.
jasper502 1 year ago 3
Is it just me or does the CWB guy look like Ward Weisensel ??
Pretty much sums up every CWB farm meeting I've ever been to. G
gustgd76 1 year ago