WT Farm closing; also Largest WT press moving to Canada (page 3)

skittles4u

Maybe they can use it to print the Georgetown times

wannaexit

Also, the same source said that Bethel is selling WT Farms (Walkill). Patterson remains unaffected by all this.

I know that here in Canada watchtower is selling or is in the process of selling the Canadian farm. I heard it recently from a Canadian bethel worker.

I asked why?

The answer was that the governing body is sensing that the end if very near and they want to simplify.

Who knows what they are really up to? Maybe they are sensing their own end.

wannaexit

ezekiel3

To clarify: "WT farm" in Walkill should not be confused with the Patterson complex in upstate NY.

I would not surprise me that the farm is closing. As you may know, NY operations downsized beginning last year and all bethelites were given the annoucement this spring that anyone who wanted to leave could do so.

As to the printing presses, WTBTS is shipping and assembling huge presses all over the world, diversifing their operation. This includes an installation in the UK (for Europe) already complete. Another will be in Brazil (for S America). The size of the Brazilian branch is huge and compares to Patterson sans the Writing/Service Deparments.

The presses are the best (this is a publishing company) and can spit out something like 60 magazines per second. They also have the capacity for hardbound books (look for the return of those and the demise of glued cardstock covers). The size of each press is comparible to 10 city buses and usaully need to have buildings built to house them. This may also explain the migration away from Brooklin to Patterson.

WTBTS would never close Patterson, it was built to last through Armaggedon.

Farkel

wannaexit,

: The answer was that the governing body is sensing that the end if very near and they want to simplify.

That is only partially true: the governing body is sensing that their financial end is very near and they want CASH to try to prevent it.

Farkel

garybuss

What about the 4 towers the Publishing Corporation wants to build in Brooklyn? That does not look very much like down-sizing OR financial weakness to me.

My theory is they have so much money coming in they are searching for programs to use it all. Their cost cutting and their much increased pleas for cash donations from their trademark religion, Jehovah's Witnesses, has paid off big. This is NOT looking like a company with financial problems at all to me. On the contrary, it looks like a company with BIG cash surpluses.

Farkel

gary,

: On the contrary, it looks like a company with BIG cash surpluses.

I believe that is true. Their problem is cash FLOW, as I've been told. Big cash surpluses can be eaten up rather quickly with an organization of that size, unless the monthly cash flow can sustain it. And cash surpluses can easily be wiped out with the loss of one or more class action lawsuits. The Lutheran Church in Canada was bankrupted because of them, and the Catholic Church in America is closing down hundreds and hundreds of their facilities for the same reason.

Farkel

L_A_Big_Dawg

jgnat,

My comment was not meant as an afront to the great people of Canada. If this bill is passed, would it mean that the mere criticism of a lifestyle or religion, not just the advocating of violence or violent acts would be prosecuted under Canadian law?

If that is the case then that is "politically correct speech codes."

LABD

jgnat

No Apologies and L_A, here in Canada, we don't call it contradition, we call it balance. I imagine that it is issues around freedom of speech that keep the Bill hotly debated, not passed yet.

Quotes

Thanks for your input, everyone.

I wonder if my Mother was partially incorrect (or perhaps I misunderstood her)???

Perhaps the correct story is, as someone pointed out, the Canadian farm is closing?

Or perhaps, the farm operation only at Walkill is closing, but the Walkill factory remains?

Either of those seem more reasonable.

How will JWs in The New System(tm) know how to grow their own food if they don't get farm practice now???? :)

But the *HUGE* print press coming to Candada, that was unequivocal. I guess it makes sense, now the press will be closer to the supply of high quality trees used to create the paper to feed the machines.

~Quotes, of the "Buying Stock in MacMillan-Bloedell Paper" class

Ailla

I do find a Walkhill closing to be unrealistic for they did just spend so much money remodeling and adding on. Also, I'm not sure who would buy such a thing. A weird mix of factory type buildings, farms, and apartments. It would have to be some crazy cult like the Branch Davidians, oh wait a cult already owns it. I do think that that Walkhill must be losing it's advantages. Even when I was there in 2000, they were already starting to downsize some of the farming they did there. They have to be losing money on the whole farming thing, especially when you consider how cheaply you can buy food instead of taking care and housing hundreds and hundreds of Bethelites so they can make milk. Does that make sense?

The Wallkill land has grown in value over the years and just like the other farms in that region it could be developed for residential housing. They could make millions off a development deal.

They don't really farm anymore because it's cheaper for them to buy food than grow it. It is not a fully functioning farm as it once was long ago. I still don't believe they are selling it off just yet because of the new printing complex.

WT Farm closing; also Largest WT press moving to Canada

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