Hey - BCFGA President (Boparai) was kicked out of the co-op

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The president of the B.C. Fruit Growers’ Association has been ousted from the Okanagan Tree Fruit Co-operative, the largest packinghouse in the valley, for not honouring his commitment to the co-operative to ship his fruit there.

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Fruit industry is in trouble. Another disastrous year for growers.
I agree with Boporai.

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You agree with what?.....that breaking a legally binding contract to the Packing House is ok? :137:
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With the number of grower jumping ship combined with the number of growers being kicked out, who is going to be responsible for the 40-50 million dollar debt that the Okanagan Tree Fruit Co-oprative occured since amagamation back in 2008? By selling off their real estate and other assets will the remaining growers be liable for the remaining 20 million dollar debt and will the banks and other creditor be re-processing their orchards? Whew, what a mess. Orchard anyone?
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To start with there is a lot more to this story coming I am sure.
The present situation was not good and he should have been
kicked out a long time ago.
As for who is responsible for the situation the farmers. One thing
that is not mentioned is the lack of selling properties, they have
not sold any and its part of the problem.
There is an election coming at the end of October and things will
start moving in a more positive direction. As for this fearless leader
he did break his contract. He is the President of an organization that
is getting more angry by the day by his actions. They are not helpful
nor is there positive solutions coming from someone who needs to grow
up period. Stayed tuned I think you will have a front row seat to a lot of
entertainment before this is over.
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damngrumpy wrote:To start with there is a lot more to this story coming I am sure.
The present situation was not good and he should have been
kicked out a long time ago.
As for who is responsible for the situation the farmers. One thing
that is not mentioned is the lack of selling properties, they have
not sold any and its part of the problem.
There is an election coming at the end of October and things will
start moving in a more positive direction. As for this fearless leader
he did break his contract. He is the President of an organization that
is getting more angry by the day by his actions. They are not helpful
nor is there positive solutions coming from someone who needs to grow
up period. Stayed tuned I think you will have a front row seat to a lot of
entertainment before this is over.
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damngrumpy wrote:There is an election coming at the end of October and things will
start moving in a more positive direction.


Wrong! It's too late for the fruit industry. They screwed around for too long. Since 1980.
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Indeed...

Time for the BCFGA to get the boot..
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Co-op calls cops on BCFGA president http://www.ok.bc.ca/front-page-news/co- ... 10512.html
Friday, 05 October 2012 02:00 J.P. SQUIRE

The B.C. Fruit Growers' Association is distancing itself from the war of words between its president and the Okanagan Tree Fruit Co-operative.
"I really can't comment," said BCGFA general manager Glen Lucas on Thursday,
the day after Kirpal Boparai was asked to leave two co-op packing houses.
Boparai went to the 3335 Sexsmith Rd. packing house in Rutland on Wednesday and was asked to leave the premises. Then he showed up at the co-op's 880 Vaughan Ave. packing house, was asked to leave and RCMP were called. Boparai told a television camera crew he was standing on the public sidewalk and was not trespassing, and he left without incident.
With Boparai apparently banned from all co-op property, it's a dilemma for the BCFGA since its offices are located on the second floor of the B.C. Tree Fruits' building on Water Street. BCTF is the co-op's marketing division.
The BCFGA offices do have a back door so Boparai doesn't have to go through the
co-op offices, confirmed Lucas.
"It's not often that we would have Kirpal come to the office. Usually we go out. I'd have to say he hasn't been here for a month. It's infrequent," said Lucas.
The BCFGA doesn't have a morality clause in its constitution if a member behaves illegally or contrary to the interests of the association, said Lucas. "There would be a possibility of reviewing any membership or any board of directors, but there is nothing specific on that."
Decades ago, there was an industry ombudsman who would mediate any disagreements, but he wouldn't have likely gotten involved in contract breaches.
Sources have told The Daily Courier that some growers are now discussing whether they can impeach an association member.
On Sept. 27, the 10 members of the co-op's board of directors, all growers, voted unanimously to cancel all of Boparai's fruit contracts and his co-op membership "due to a breach of terms within the (apple) contract."
Earlier in the week, Boparai told The Daily Courier that he cancelled his apple contract with the co-op in July after a bin of his cherries was rejected by the packing house. However, annual full-service contracts cannot be cancelled by a grower. Boparai has said he will now ship his fruit elsewhere.
Algoma Orchards Ltd. in Newcastle, Ont., is hoping to buy 15,000 boxes or 15 truckloads of unprocessed Okanagan apples from Jind Fruit Co. packing house in Osoyoos. White Algoma bins have been spotted in East Kelowna orchards.
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MAPearce wrote:Indeed...

Time for the BCFGA to get the boot..


Time for Okanagan Tree Fruit Co-operative to go.
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All marketing boards should be disbanded. We are all getting the shaft because of them.
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Bsuds wrote:All marketing boards should be disbanded. We are all getting the shaft because of them.

Neither are marketing boards.
BCFGA is a growers organization. BCTF is the marketing organization for the entities that wish to deal with it. It is not mandatory.
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In the 1980s BC Tree Fruits wanted full control of all the fruit in BC and
at first they played dirty with any grower that wanted to sell their own fruit. Then
the packing houses tried to convince it's own growers that little independent
orchardists with eight acres who were selling fruit cheaply were the reason BC tree fruits
was losing money for their growers, while washingto state grew to be 20 TIMES as big
as BC's fruit industry, and while BC fruit industry grew their debt to $50 million. And each
year since 1980, fruit growers have been fed *bleep* , while their returns have decreased.
Most of the east indian fruit growers don't want to take crap anymore, and that's why companies like JIND
in Oliver are popping up in the valley.
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Can anyone tell me the average, 2011 crop year, price [u]per pound [/u]for apples
-the Co-op (packinghouse) charges the grower to process and sell
-gross received by the grower
-cost to grow the product
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It was not that long ago that i read in the newspaper that this packinghouse would be in recievership in a couple of years and it was because that the private packinghouses were been run more efficient than this one . Most of the private packinghouses are been operated by the Indo-Canadians and for this reason why would this packinghouse not listen and learn from Mr. Boparai on how these private packinghouses can operate with such great efficiency . If these efficiencies can be overcome at this packinghouse it might save it from going into recievership and at the same time put more money into the growers pockets which would be a win win situation for both parties .
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the other Indo-Canadians packing house do not seem to want to except Mr. Boparais apples so he is forced to ship them back east. They have a failed crop this year. Next year they may not need or except his apples either .he may have to start his own packing house because he burnt to many bridges.
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