More on CWB and Saudi Wheat giveaway

[stubblejumper]

Does it really matter what the CWB does? the Farmers for just me would bitch about anything they did.

[Zaphod]

Wow SJ, strong counter-argument.

Just so you know, this info about prices doesn't just come from the US Wht Associates. It was actually reported on weeks ago by a respected European publisher, F.O. Licht.

[furrowtickler]

Stubble, it does matter b/c there is no choice.

[TOM4CWB]

Stubble,CChurch and Agstar77;

Just as soon as you start paying the cost of buyback licenses, for my farm to actually engage in premium marketing sales with customers: then you would have the ethical right to complain about our need for a responsible marketing system.

The CWB can simply take the $20-40/t out of PPO basis, PPO contingency funds, or the pool accounts with no restrictions or accountability on an individual sale.

There is no self discipline forcing the CWB to sell our grain at market value... other than our squawking and squealing about their lack of intelligent marketing savvy.

Isn't it about time you folks grew up and stopped treating this like a religious cult... it is our money you are wasting to... not just yours!!!

[highwayman]

Stubble, we all know that it is the concept of your neighbors making a single red cent more than yourself that completely distresses you, but howcan you continue to be so blatanly blinded by your ideology and ignore the overwhelming evidence in front of you that the CWB is performing poorly. You continue to refer to the "Farmer for Just Me" when it is in fact you that has taken the selfish approach to your methods when you continue to deny Western Canadian Farmers the freedoms that they in turn would be more than happy to give you.
The next time you speak arrogantly of the Farmers for just me, have a good look in the mirror and think about who really is all about himself. There truly are none so blind as those who choose not to see.

[smallguy]

Not taking sides here B--U--T how many of us sold that $16-16.50 canola a couple of years ago for ten dollars later on. If you did were does that put your marketing skills compared to the CWB??

[bucket]

Good point smallguy BUT remember this -it was the farmers CHOICE to sell or not.

AND if a farmer signed a 100 tonne contract at that price - he hauled it in. None of this 40% nonsense of which 25% is still left over from a previous contract at a higher price. Think durum.

[Fransisco]

Smallguy if the wheat board can't do better than average, why do we need a compulsory wheat board? In exchange for taking away our property rights we were promised "premiums",remember.

Well they've never done better than average and their premiums are nothing but empty words. I'm sorry but I want my property back.

[seabass]

Same old story. The only thing I like about the CWB is the fact that I have a measuring rod to see how bad I kick the shit out of them in average price at the end of the year. I think they only beat us once since Fixed and DPC came out. Beating them at there own set of rules is priceless. Just imagine if they played by the rest of the worlds rules. Bye Bye

[mcfarms]

fransisco

Not to pick on you but sorry this is Canada you have no property rights. That is the root of this issue.( and many others)

[Fransisco]

No argument there.

I was talking specifically about the right to sell my wheat and barley to whomever I choose. Just like I have the right to do so when it comes to other crops such as oats and canola.

[parsley]

Compare current wheat deals to 2008 wheat deals.

Translated. Note the date please.


07-19-2008
Said the Egyptian General Authority for Supply Commodities, said it had bought 145 thousand tons of wheat for shipment from 16 to 31 August

The master Hefny, vice president of procurement that included 25 tons of Ukrainian wheat at $ 321 per ton and 60 thousand tons of U.S. or Canadian wheat at $ 337 per ton shipments of Russian wheat each 30 thousand tons at $ 326 per ton.

And the prices are all inclusive of freight charges.

The commission said on Tuesday said it wants to buy 55 thousand to 60 thousand tons of optional origin wheat for shipment from 16 to August 1.

Egypt and the largest importers of wheat in the world and has already bought 825 thousand tons in the current fiscal year, which started early July.

The Supply Commodities Authority bought about 6.5 million tonnes in the previous fiscal year, mostly from Russia and the United States and Kazakhstan, along with smaller quantities from France and Canada.

Pars