Why in the world is the Canadian Wheat Board using farmers’ money to advertise their own interests?
I am a 39-year-old grain producer from Saskatchewan who wants the end of the single desk. I want an end to the CWB, period. I don’t see how the wheat board is any benefit to my operation.
I am quite capable of marketing my non-board commodities so why would wheat, durum and malt barley be any different?
Maybe I could sell my own wheat to a mill or a maltster in Saskatchewan. Do I need to pay the freight to Vancouver for malt barley that gets delivered to Alix, Alta., or Biggar, Sask.?
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All I ever hear from the wheat board is they are the voice for prairie farmers. Well, my director from my district is not taking my ideas to the board. He is a complete single desk supporter.
I voted for the Conservative government in the last federal election because they were going to make changes to the CWB, but no, now they can’t because eastern Canadian MPs are fighting for the board when they have no interest in it.
It just sickens me when I see the CWB ads for pro single desk. I grow wheat so why should they spend my money on ads that do not benefit me and thousands of other western Canadian wheat growers?
(I am) totally sick about the whole situation when I see cash prices of spring wheat at $10.29 and durum at $10.50 across the line in the U.S. …
I live in a free country. That I know because I just expressed my view. But no, I can’t sell my wheat to whomever I want.
Not so free, is it?
Ryan Matthew Huber,Lipton, Sask.
