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Special Committee on Cooperatives committee This is farmers' money. There's also a precedent in the first-home ownership RRSP tax waiver. Instead of always going to the federal-provincial governments and asking for money for agriculture—and I know people are already wondering why there is $1.3 billion sitting there not bei
July 10th, 2012Committee meeting
Bob Friesen
Special Committee on Cooperatives committee No, there's no share structure.
July 10th, 2012Committee meeting
Bob Friesen
Special Committee on Cooperatives committee It's owned by one person. It's owned by a farmer from Swift Current, Saskatchewan, who started it in 1998. He owns the structure. As I mentioned earlier, FNA doesn't retail anything. Our revenue is the farmer membership money, and that money goes towards paying staff and agrolog
July 10th, 2012Committee meeting
Bob Friesen
Special Committee on Cooperatives committee He makes them together with the rest of his staff and the advisory board, yes.
July 10th, 2012Committee meeting
Bob Friesen
Special Committee on Cooperatives committee No, I'm the VP.
July 10th, 2012Committee meeting
Bob Friesen
Special Committee on Cooperatives committee I'm CEO of Farmers of North America Strategic Agriculture Institute, which is an organization that does informational research for the farmers so that they can make better decisions.
July 10th, 2012Committee meeting
Bob Friesen
Special Committee on Cooperatives committee No, that's part of the FNA.
July 10th, 2012Committee meeting
Bob Friesen
Special Committee on Cooperatives committee No. FNA Strategic Agriculture is an arm of FNA.
July 10th, 2012Committee meeting
Bob Friesen
Special Committee on Cooperatives committee It's simply an organization that does informational research. Rather than developing programs and negotiating prices, this arm of FNA deals with informational research.
July 10th, 2012Committee meeting
Bob Friesen
July 10th, 2012Committee meeting
Bob Friesen
Special Committee on Cooperatives committee No, they're not members of FNA. We have talked to co-ops and have suggested that we could help them work together with our input suppliers.
July 10th, 2012Committee meeting
Bob Friesen
Special Committee on Cooperatives committee The membership structure is farmer-members.
July 10th, 2012Committee meeting
Bob Friesen
July 10th, 2012Committee meeting
Bob Friesen
July 10th, 2012Committee meeting
Bob Friesen
July 10th, 2012Committee meeting
Bob Friesen