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I was reading the Aug. 13 issue of The Western Producer and an article on page 65 jumped off the page and took me by the collar and said look at this!

This was the article titled “North Dakotans want wheat pool.” Imagine that! Someone in the United States wants to set up a pooling agency.

The article didn’t give many details, but it isn’t hard to figure out that this is basically a single-desk sales agency.

Does this remind any of your readers of the Canadian Wheat Board? It should!

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Now why would farmers in the United States want to set up a pooling agency-marketing board-single desk seller? Because it works, that’s why!

The shortsighted narrow-minded people that want to dismantle the Canadian Wheat Board are dead wrong. They insist on having their “rights,” however I wonder if they have given any thought to the responsibilities those “rights” entail.

The “silent majority” of wheat board supporters need to stand up and make your wishes known. Write letters to the editor, call radio phone in shows, and write your elected representative to tell him or her your vote will be cast based upon that person supporting the wheat board.

The Canadian Wheat Board may not be perfect. However, let’s not throw the baby out with the bath water. If others want to emulate what we do, we must be doing something right.