Friday, October 14, 2011
Wheat Board Stance
I think that if more than fifty percent of wheat farmers want to keep the wheat board. Lemieux said that if farmers can decide who to sell to and how much to sell for it could be beneficial to farmers. This is not necessarily true, the smaller scale farmers might not be able to sell their wheat and farmers might have to sell their wheat at a lower price than they would have when they were part of the wheat board. Without the assurance of someone buying their wheat many farmers might be in trouble in the coming years.I think that its awful that the government is deciding what freedoms the wheat farmers want and need when they are going against what the farmers themselves are saying. Its ridiculous that the government would be so inflexible when a majority wants to keep the board the way it is. What I want to know is what are the farmers options if down the road they still want to reinstate the wheat board.
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Good question.
ReplyDeleteI just heard in the news that they plan to instate an optional wheat board. This could help because it would still give smaller farmers an option to take part in the economies of scale.