I Miss The Canadian Wheat Board – small dead animals

“Did you know you can get paid to store grain on farm? And it doesn’t interfere with other strategies.”

And still the Black Knights battle on…

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Is that like “Friends of Canadian Broadcasting”?

Yes.

So what negative number was the fair market value of the CWB? Those assholes really can’t handle democracy. It isn’t all that funny anymore. What about them paying full cost of legal fees?

Out of the mouths of babes … er, your economic advisor …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNGl4O9T3qg&feature=player_embedded

“What about them paying full cost of legal fees?”
Aye. And I would hope that the Government has the balls to file that counteraction. And I would also hope that the filing of the counteraction would be done so that the “Friends” are named as jointly and severally liable for the waste of our tax-dollars.

Could one think these fools capable of suing their mothers for cutting the umbilical cord and taking them off life support ?

Getting paid to store wheat?
Almost as good as the American “farmers” who are paid millions annually to NOT grow crops.
BTW, take a wild guess whether those payments were interupted by one cent during the recent US government “shutdown”.
h/t News of the Weird

on brilliant government in the U.S. says that farmers cannot consume their own wheat. did they change that law???

In the U.S. when you deliver grain for storage to a commercial elevator you can:
A) Get a warehouse receipt that you retain ownership
or
B) Use a “Price Later Contract” that allows grain to be shipped and processed and all you have is a piece of paper for ownership…
Elevators are offering “free” storage fees for the Price Later Contract…
What could go wrong with “B”?

Bruun concluded that “this case raises fundamental questions about the nature and extent of collective property rights in organizations enabled by government, but in this case, built by and for producers. It will require the court to consider the inherent characteristics of property and address the central question of whether it is fair for government to take something that others have created, without compensating them.”

Anders Bruun owes me one irony-o-meter.

“…Anders Bruun owes me one irony-o-meter…”
Ain’t that the truth, max.
To think that Harper & Co. (who promised action on the property rights front back in 2006, but ran from the issue ever since) might be forced to oppose a property rights argument championed by a cartel of parasitic collectivists, is theater at its finest and most absurd.

Take note that Anders Bruun used the term ‘collective property rights’ not property rights. Anders knows full well that in the past there were no property rights issues discussed, especially every fall, when the CWB seized the annual fruits of a farmers labour.

Along with the friends of welfare, healthcare or weedfare.

Free at last.
I believe Stewart Wells was on the board of the Farmer’s Union, also a Marxist organization, at one time.
The CWB should compete or get swept into the dustbin of history.

“The key concept here is fairness. Producers paid to build up the CWB and never got anything when government tore it down.” (sic)
“The key concept here is fairness. Producers paid to build up the CWB and never got anything; when government tore it down producers had freedom (and higher grain prices).”

I just read your post again and noted the word “collective”. Now where have I heard that term used before? Oh, I remember now…the Soviet Union.

Now that farmers are not forced to sell their wheat to the WB and can sell directly to the grain companies are quotas still in place. For example,once they have harvested the crop can the farmers then deliver the whole crop to the elevator and get paid in full?

can the farmers then deliver the whole crop to the elevator and get paid in full? Yes.
Prairie farmers have just harvested a record breaking crop. Space at elevators to deliver the crop is at a premium so booking a delivery period is essential. If you do that you can deliver the crop and receive full payment. If you don’t like the current market conditions and wish to stay on the sidelines for now cash advance on the crop is an option, or you can use marketing tools like those John DePape alludes to at the top of the thread. Delivery quotas and percentage delivery opportunity ended when the CWB lost its monopoly. How amazing is that? A marketplace that actually accepts the product you wish to place at its disposal at any point in time? It’s not Canadian.