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NCC Says End the Wheat Board Monopoly

The National Citizens Coalition (NCC) today announced that they will be launching a multi-media campaign to ensure that western farmers are given a choice in the marketing of their crops, and that the Canadian Wheat Board monopoly comes to an end.

“In March of 2007 western barley farmers voted 62% in favor of having a choice in the marketing of their crops,” said NCC President Peter Coleman. “The farmers have voted, and it is time for the Canadian Wheat Board and the federal government to allow them freedom to sell their crops to the customer of their choice.”

Ending the Wheat Board Monopoly and giving western farmers’ freedom of choice in marketing has been a priority of the NCC for years.  While many western barley farmers have voted in favor of marketing their own crops, the Canadian Wheat Board continues to fight them at every turn.

“If the CWB is such a positive marketing agency for the selling of Canadian crops, then why haven’t eastern farmers bought into the program?” added Coleman. “The time has come for the Canadian Wheat Board to honour the vote of western farmers, and for the federal government to take the necessary steps to ensure that the farmer’s voice is heard.”

The NCC campaign will feature radio spots, billboards and newspaper advertisements to ensure our message gets out.  In the 21st century it should not be a crime to market your own crops.  Nor should the CWB be allowed to use pool money from farmers to fight those who want the freedom to market their own crops and believe that the CWB is not the best alternative.


Comments

Milos Zach says:

Down with the Wheat Board and any Boards of similar nature. Let people breathe freely, and avoid burocratic layers between them.

submitted on March 5th, 2008 at 3:41 pm

L. G. says:

The Wheat Board is contrary to ‘freedom choice’ - just ask the farmers who went to jail for selling their grain ‘on their own.’ That should tell all of us just how ‘unfree’ we are - and willingly give up our freedom so ‘big government’ can make our decisions. That is the reality of this socialist attitude that is well entrenched in our country.

submitted on March 5th, 2008 at 6:38 pm

mary7 Thompson says:

Re: The Marketing procedure without a Wheatboard.

How does farmer “x” living in a rural prairie area actually go about getting his bushels of crop on a train to the best choice of buyer, for the best price ? My question is not about whether the Wheatboard lives or dies. My question is how does a little guy sell to a big country’s order. I’m asking a logistics problem. I am asking what will be a farmer’s method of accessing the “new opportunity” if the Wheatboad is not handling business. I don’t understand the alternative. I feel like the farmer must not only know how to grow wheat, he will have to be a marketing guru and I wonder if farmers in their great range of ages, with and without computers, can manage this tremendous amount of work.

submitted on March 5th, 2008 at 7:49 pm

Rick Strankman says:

62% of prairie farmers want CHOICE!I find it particularly incensing that this “regional” issue is being dictated to western farmers by Liberal and NDP MPs who have absolutely no stake in our methods of income earning much less our representation.All we can hope for is that they will provide the same `quality` leadership that they have shown in other “federal” issues like the Afghan war and Canadian budget.Never mind their `staunch` wavering positon on CRIME!!!

submitted on March 5th, 2008 at 9:48 pm

Alex.R.MAck says:

It is plain ignorance to compare the marketing stratat for wheat grown in Eastern Canada ti that in Western Canada.
The markets for Eastern and Western types of wheat grown are very different. The market for Eastern wheat is mainly local - to local mills, etc. and the market for western wheat is mainly (~80%) international to many foreign countries..
A farmer with wheat from 1000 acres must find a dopmesteic buyer for only 200 acres of his crop and a foreign importer for 800acres of his wheat –on the average for wheat grown in Western Canada. How many farmers have got the export credits and knowledge of international
Supportt the persons knowledgaeable of the language, customs, and financing of the international trading of wheat. wheat. It is stupid to have 100,000 grain farmers all trying to sell their wheat to foreign governments, foreign compniese , and commodity traders for final sales to Asia and the Middle Eastern countries..
There are only about 3 or 4 large interantional grain countries that sell most of the the world’s production of wheat interenationally and that can best manage the movement of wheat around the world to get a profit of over +8% on the bottom line for their owners and investors.
How can 100,000 faarmers each copmpete with this level of expertise and financing? Can idividual farmers do this? The Canadian Wheat Board sells collectively as best they can in the farmers’ interest in this very competitive market - just as the private grain companies try to do for their owners and investors –not for the producer of the wheat.
Knowledge of producing wheat is complicated ; understanding the customs, the language and the financing of the interantional wheat trade is even more complicated.

submitted on March 5th, 2008 at 11:29 pm

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