Just for you three amigos Agstar and Burbert, cchurch.

[cottonpicken]

Everybody add hopper to their dummy list.

[cottonpicken]

Joedales you *****,if you dont get me drunk at least once in my life i will be mad with all this add revenue your making,lol.

OFF the board and chem companies!

[Hopperbin]

Hey I ate fish today I feel smarter today so no one can call me dumb.
I was wondering when you were gonna call me dumb. Dam just ate the last fish now I have to go fishing.

[cottonpicken]

Well when you say monopolies are not good for business?Whos business?You think cn or microsoft want more competition?

[Hopperbin]

Well just a few short years ago us farmers were lucky to net 4 dollars per bushel for our HRSW. Monopoly didn't get us a better price until we got ethanol plants for more market access.

[Fransisco]

"You think CN or Microsoft want more competition?"

Yes, actually they do.

Competition is good for both buyers and sellers, it's what keeps everybody honest. The business who doesn't realize this is being incredibly short sighted.

Microsoft and CN wouldn't even exist if they didn't have more than one single buyer for their products.

[Fransisco]

And when it comes to the wheat board you have to ask yourself what exactly do they have a monopoly over in the first place? They certainly don't have a monopoly when it comes to the grain they sell. They've no where near the amount of market share needed to goose the price higher.

Even in durum where they have pretty much 50% market share they constantly sell below world price. And look at what the genius central planners from 423 mainstreet did last year with durum. They didn't even sell it all when the prices where record high. Now if you're lucky enough to deliver it this year you'll get 4 bucks a bushel less and you can't even count on delivering it this year. I'm guessing they're going to be taking even less.

The only thing the Board has a monopoly over is western canadian farmers who have no choice other than to give the board their grain and take whatever lousy price the board decides to give them.

[jensend]

fransisco you must have missed the econ 100 class where they pointed out under free enterprise conditions profits tend to zero. that's why concentration of ownership (and elimination of competition) has been the strategy of the last forty years. remember dwayne andreas: the customer is the enemy and the competition is the friend. http://www.econ.ucsb.edu/~tedb/eep/news/adm.mon.txt

read the book about that case. the informant by kurt eichenwald.

[parsley]

Per Capita Income: http://siakhenn.tripod.com/capita.html

Both below manage monopolistic 'do as I say' economies:
China $6,000 (2008 est.)
Cuba $9,500 (2008 est.)

In compariosn to the first two:
Canada $39,300 (2008 est.)
USA $47,000 (2008 est.)


Norway seceded from Sweden, but Sweden has continued on a path of socialism that is not producing the same per capita income:
Norway $55,200 (2008 est.)
Sweden $38,500 (2008 est.)

Political systems can make a country wealthy.Or poor. Look at some of the countries via link above. The G8's are all wealthy. The proof is in the per capita income pudding. Bottom line.
Pars

[checking]

I disagree that we have no choice but to give the Board our grain.

In fact, I could ruin that Board if they had to count on my delivery practice.

Their rainy day contingency fund would be gone in their first buy back, or buy out to cover any attempted Canadian sale.

There would be a lot of lonely paper shufflers in Winnipeg, and a lot less when their monthly cheques bounced after seeing they couldn't extract what they wanted from mine. I'd win by default.

With a few exceptions, we'd all admit that Board grains are not paying our bills. The hurdle is that most of you believe that you have to empty your bins of all grains to get ready for the next crop. And until you stop that nonsence, you deserve that Board.