China is out of the canola market.

[checking]

Fishing buddy, what's your cooking oil?

Jack would be proud of the way you handled that so, so, so, oh! diplomatically. But there is one thing he wouldn't have said, and that was "carry on".

Someone in the know gave you good advice not to marginalize yourself. He was wrong! You have left no space, not even for a compliment.

So you take your rubber axe, and keep swinging at that tree. I, staying out of your bruise range, will continue to believe in the quote that "most of the things people worry about ain't never gonna happen anyway."

Lets chalk our moods up to being sunshine deprived. I wish it was spring!!!

[Hopperbin]

OH crap Canola down 5 are the China guds mad at me?

[parsley]

Oh, quit being in a snit.

Lots knew about the canola but I waited for "those in charge" to let farmers know. You see, I towed the line, lol... well actually, not because I thought I should, but because I was just too busy. I notice how full of information is coming forth. Lawsey.Don't you ever get mad at anybody but me, checking? LOL

Marginalized from whom? LOL That's a good one. How about from some of the organics who swear the CWB is the best thing since apple pie? Think I am "marginalized" from them? LOL

Or how about my rant a day ago on Stockwell Day's 2tongues on the WTO position? LOL I don't think he'd like it, but it was criticism about what IS.

Issues and principles are not a popularity contest. Learn to separate them. Besides, checking, I don't hold grudges, and when it comes to fishing, knowing a few good fishing "spots" redeems my politically incorrect bluntness every time. And I sometimes know how to fillet a fish just as well as dissect bs. The former is an appetizing treat, the latter is the farm communities steady diet.

Pars

[parsley]

coleville,

There is such a thing as "plant diversity". And some species are quite wondrous. (There go your eyes, rolling, again, LOL)

But think about this:

1. Isn't an unmodified plant species a good benchmark to observe and record changes if there are any changes occuring from genetic modification?

And where would you find them except on the farms who do not grow that engineered species! Both the Government and corps have selected "weeds". I didn't tell them they didn't know what they were talking about.....lol

2. The University has been out various times, interested in plants in the wild. For example...I have super super big ruffled wild saskatoons.

3. There are species growing on never-cultivated land. One Phd will be here in the spring looking for specific plants.

4. University in USA contacted us wanting to grow a crop a few years back. Isolated. Bush perimeters. Fewer plants to cross.

5. Don't let your hatred of organics get in the way of being able to view nature-characteritics as a positive trait that sprayed land no longer owns.


All of us have a place, as does nature.

Pars

[Hopperbin]

OK people in the know, where is this article? Saskatchewan Sichuan fresh lakes fresh fish. Where is this article?

[furrowtickler]

It was an e-mail sent priority to JRI and others thursday morning. This was not an article but an alert to all buyers that this will be a major issue for the forseeable future. This seems to be more than sabre rattling. More details will be out in the following days. Not even the line companies wanted this info out, for they would be hung with overpriced contracts in a heartbeat. That is why there was very little news out on this before thurs A.M. so no buyer would be hung with $9/bus contracts worth $8 or less. Like someone said above the volume of contracts was huge the last two days - the market knew and was positioning itself before the public knew. Well Pars seemed to know before hand, but obviously did not say a word. Would have been nice to have a heads up on this info Monday night, by 8:30am I lost over $.40/bus on what we had on "ice".
BTW, I found out from an independent retailer not a line company, only when I walked in and asked wtf was up did I know. They looked at me and said how the hell did you know? Go figure.

[checking]

Tree too tough for you Parsley! I know what you can do. Go out on a limb where you can see the next crop to hit the rumour wire in a week's time.

Maybe it will be: China declares that too many coal mine disasters have decimated their canary population. Bird seed prices collapse in Western Canada.

I mean, carry on farmers! The brave new world of being able to sell only soybeans and corn can't get here quick enough.

And just for you - snitting is for little old ladies in rocking chairs who have another ball of yarn to toss at the passing public cat. Meow!!!

Seriously, I think we need to take the iniative and tell the world that everything we grow in Canada isn't worth a "pinch of coon ship." Nothing to lose as they are well on the way to telling us, one crop at a time.

LOL at a situation, worked for Letterman!!!

[agstar77]

Record oilseed production in China, depressed cooking oil prices, canola embargo Hmmmmm!

[Zaphod]

I think Agstar is right on (never thought I'd say that). They can't close the border with tariffs, so they pull this one out of the hat. The reason we were fooled is that the Chinese were buying like crazy right up to the announcement. There are six vessels of canola going to China scheduled out of Vancouver.

Parsley, are you going to make us beg for your source of info or was it just a crystal ball (an organic one)?

[agstar77]

I wonder how they stop cooking oil from entering? With all the increased crush capacity , could we not export more oil? Are the new plants rubbing their hands in glee hoping to get cheap canola?