Compendium of CWB *****s That should Be Remembered

[bucket]

How about the millions the cwb spent on lawsuits against the conservative government only to find out they are not above the government. Just wish the government had the backbone they were elected to have.

Made for a great relationship. The sad part is most of the directors were/are daddy's little boys and carried that into the board room. They didn't realize the government wanted to wean them and have the cwb grow up.

[dirtgirl]

Please someone find Vader's post about durum producers. I have often thought about that post and wish I had printed it off.

How about the last year of the DPC when 2 guys were able to sign up 25% of the available tons?

[bucket]

If you go to the bottom of this page and press search, then put durum in the search, discussion forums, and ALL. Its item 87 - farmers making millions and millions.

I don't know how to link it into the thread but everyone should read this from time to time just to make the blood boil. It might loosen some colestrol.

[checking]

Oneoff - your Oct 04, 2009, 5:58 post. It happened, at least once. I know the registered seed grower, know who the U.S. farmer was that bought the entire Barrie wheat production of the seed grower, and know the U.S. elevator it was delivered to. Sweet deal all around. Nothing underhanded here. Just the fairness system working its magic at the CWB.

[parsley]

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<p class="EC_style8ptBK"><strong>[URL="https://www.agriville.com/cgi-bin/forums/viewThread.cgi?1113317224l"](for you, Bucket)[/URL]</strong></p>


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<p class="EC_style8ptBK"><strong>& lt;a href="https://www.agriville.com/cgi-bin/sitesearch.cgi">(Some Durum Vader)</a></strong></p>

[parsley]

I ran off pages ten years ago.

Back then the Wheat Board boldly proclaimed that they could not issue export licenses to farmers.

Farmers meekly accepted what they said.


Organics fought it.
Cut and paste into Google for entire transcript:


"Mr. David Anderson: You presently give no-cost licences to producers in certain areas as well, right?


Mr. Ken Ritter: That's in Jim's area.


Mr. Jim Thompson: A Quebec producer who certified his product was grown in the province of Quebec would be granted an export licence, without having to pay any fee into the pool account."


And Western farmers contimue to meekly accept bullying stupidity. Pars

[parsley]

The Chairman of the CWB was asked if the CWB could issue licenses to producers, and he deferred the question to staff.

Good thing Ritter wasn't standing in front of my foot that day.

And Thompson said "Quebec."

But he didn't say that the CWB also issues export licenses to Western producers as well.

When they take the notion. Pars

[bucket]

Parsley

I clicked on the (for you bucket) and got an internal error.

The other one brings up the search.

I think dirtgirl wanted the post in this thread and I don't know how. Maybe you could insert that post into this thread for all to review again.

[parsley]

Go to the bottom of this page.

Click on site map.
Click on site search

Enter "Vader " in search box
(or durum, or Parsley, or bucket or whatever!)

Also Click on discussion forums
Also open window and click on ALL instead of 5.

Enjoy. Pars

You will be ready for tending to your fall chickens aka wringing necks when you go through some of the archived Vader posts. LOL

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Extremely glad that agri-ville.com didn't tinker with this classic. My apologies to this site. I can now have some sympathy for understandable reasons for Webmasters pulling a very few inappropriate posts that could cause obvious legal problems. The rant is just as offensive and revealing as it originally was. Take it for what its worth.. It now shows up on the search list as #88

Vader posted Jan 26, 2008 12:20
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talked to a farmer yesterday whose durum went 70 bushels per acre. On 2000 acres the gross revenue is $1,750,000.00.

I have heard similar stories around Kindersley and Swift Current of durum that went 50 bushels per acre. Now that is only $650,000 for a thousand acres but in that case the lentils and canola took him well into the millions as well.

I hear all the time here on angryville the time people like Saskfarmer bitching about the CWB because he can't get $17.00 for his durum and he blames this on the CWB.

In the case of a few rich farmers who can sit on all of their grain while the raging masses sell out early perhaps Saskfarmer has a legitimate argument. Perhaps we did cost him $5.00 per bushel on his durum. Perhaps it ran 50 bushels per acre and perhaps he had a thousand acres. And perhaps he could have earned an additional quarter of a million dollars.

I could argue that this is a zero sum game and that on the flip side there is another farmer that could have had the same 50 bushel crop on the same acreage base of 1000 acres and he could have sold his durum for $7.00 per bushel and for that farmer we made him an extra quarter million dollars. I could argue that for the health of the community it is better that the second farmer is able to pay down his debt and remain a constructive player in the industry and the community while poor Saskfarmer was prevented from expanding his farm by another section. The section that farmer number two may have sold after making his decision to sell his durum at 7.00.

But it is not a zero sum game. In fact we know that the CWB is asking $22.00 per bushel for durum today when the US elevator price reported here on Agri-vill is only $17.00. Now those elevators will sell your durum for $22.00 if they can get their hands on it.

So we see that for starters the CWB is keeping about $5.00 per bushel out of the handling companies pockets and putting it in farmers pockets right now.

Further we know that the average weighted selling price of durum in the US according to the North Dakota Wheat commission is about $10.00. This is further proof of the value of the CWB. The CWB has added to the bottom line of Canadian farmers on a 3 million tonne program an extra $73.00 per tonne or $220,000.00.

So yes the downside is that we kept Saskfarmer from buying another section of land where he might next year make enough extra money to buy out another suffering neighbor who had to sell a section to Saskfarmer.

The upside is that the Ag industry in Canada made an extra almost quarter of a BILLION DOLLARS.

And that is just on Durum.

Wait till you see my analysis on Spring Wheat and Malt Barley.

Rod Flaman
CWB Director - District 8
306-771-2823
rodflaman@imagewireless.ca

Oh and by the way. The CWB Rocks.