I have been blessed with tremendous support from Western Canadian farmers throughout my 10 years at the Board table. And to those supporters I would like to say that change is on the way! The CWB can not survive in it’s present form.
We all understand that there is nothing wrong with collective marketing for those who want it. But it’s terribly wrong to force farmers into it. Continue reading
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Over the years I have spent a lot of time assessing the CWB marketing performance and I have come up with more questions than answers. The CWB is a puzzle; it states it gets the best prices for farmers but time and time again, actual evidence says otherwise. It states it uses market power to extract not only the best price, but premiums. Again, evidence tells a different story. Continue reading
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Rolf Penner has shown an unflagging commitment to providing Prairie farmers with the same kind of choices that entrepreneurs and businesspeople in other sectors take for granted. That commitment is rooted in a strongly held belief that Prairie farmers not only have not only earned the right to be masters of their own destiny, but that, given the chance, have the wherewithal to be true worldbeaters.
Author of ‘Why the Mexicans don’t drink Molson”
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When I was the Minister of Agriculture under the Filmon Government we changed Manitoba Pork from a monopoly into a voluntary marketer of hogs. It wasn’t long after that Saskatchewan and Alberta followed in our footsteps and now Ontario plans to do the same. What does that tell you? It tells you that dual marketing is possible , it tells you that former monopolies can compete and it shows you that farmers want more freedom to market their products not less. Continue reading
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The time to change the CWB from a compulsory, bureaucratic, cost ineffective agency of the federal government to a voluntary marketing organization is long past. There is no hard evidence that the CWB generates their claimed premium pries for prairie farmers, and lots of evidence that the organization in its present form costs prairie farmers and the prairie region lost revenue and income. Putting in place a market and marketing oriented board of directors is an important step toward accomplishing needed change in wheat and barley marketing on the prairies.Posted in Thumbs Up!
