Dear Editor
Reading your letters to the editor, there are those that seem to continually try to claim how great the CWB was. I went back into my records and checked the average prices my farm received for wheat for a number of years: 2014, $5.98/bushel; 2013, $6.91/bushel; 2012, $6.04/bushel; 2011, $6.48/bushel; 2010, $3.44/bushel; 2009, $4.61/bushel.
I don't see any premiums for the above numbers for when the CWB had control of the marketing of my wheat. I can also remember the initials being so low that if you delivered wheat in the fall you owed the elevator money. So much for cash flow.
Some try to claim the CWB was great at moving grain. One recent year I had the distinct privilege of delivering close to one half of an A wheat contract in September of the year after the crop year closed, even though I had been willing to deliver at any time after sign up. I just wasn't allowed to deliver.
The CWB supporters like to think the CWB could set its price, but when you only have 11 per cent of the world trade, you are not a price setter. They can't seem to understand this.
Thank you, Gerry Ritz, for taking the heat that the diehard CWB supporters dream up and for giving us farmers the opportunity to market our grain.
John Simpson,
Ft. Vermilion, Alta.
