Grain Farmers elects board executives

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Henry Van Ankum takes over as the Ontario commodity organization’s chair

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A new generation of farmers is leaders in control of ontario grain.
Let us hope they are more qualified than the past

It is easy to be a good farm leader when prices and profit is good . What has been lacking is the past leaders did no think ahead for periods of price cycle lows which always happens. Decade after decade this has happened and we still dont have a good RMP program. Rmp is an illusion that the federal governmemt has no intension of funding by their 60%.
A problem is when times are good farmers get greedy and stupid pushing up land prices etc. Right now Farmer optimisim is at a high. Farmers should know these good economic times dont last for ever and prod their leaders to be more effective on economic income issues, it seems our new organization is bloated with staff promoting wellness. The big push is research

Time will tell if these new leaders with advanced leadership training have vision. The GFO has 28000 members, but how many are active producing commerical farmers? Farm magazines do stories on farmers with their pictures of crossed arms and hated, showing how their sucsess in farm acreage expansion happened. With all this farmer expansion and economy of scale the GFO will only need 10000 farmers to farm Ontario. looks like we have problems creating problems with less rural voters etc etc ect

The new leadership at GFO would be well-advised to tone down the rhetoric about ethanol - especially when it comes to casting aspersions on the ethics and professionalism of those, particularly the George Morris Centre, who point out that that the legislated benefits of ethanol to corn farmers are, by definition, a legislated cost to others.

Stephen Thompson, Clinton O

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