What Should the CWB do with Supply Glut of Durum in 2010

[Hopperbin]

Choice2u logically for every bushel let out of the pool the CWB should allow another bushel back in from someone like you.
Good luck getting a speedy decision on something like that though.
Holding back production and Stubbles neighbours planting nothing but durum on spec should be a tuff next year ahead. Other parts of the world one would think should plant less

[wmoebis]

Advisers are sooo smart when they have nothing invested. Remember DePutter just got paid for this advise.

Give it away, because it isn't worth much today, although some day it will be. That will be the day when we don't have any.

I would rather have my bins full of $12 durum than empty of $3 durum.

[Fransisco]

No one forces anyone to follow the advice of any of these advisors. And unlike the CWB if they make too many wrong calls they find their businesses drying up.

[gregpet]

CWB is rrrrrrreally smart since they have no skin in the game either.

[Choice2U]

wmoebis....I suggest you look up the word advisor in a dictionary. I think it would say something like "a person that gives advice" not "a clairvoyant". Paying attention to advisor's comments only gives one information, an opinion or research that one may not have had prior to making an informed decision. You want choice to hold your durum or grow more, all the more to you. I'm glad you got that choice now give me choice on marketing mine.

[TOM4CWB]

Choice2U et el;

This durum on the 'B' series not being decided till March 31... where did that come from?

When did Durum only get an 'A' and 'B' series contract for the year?

Can the CWB just change the rules whenever they want... what is that?

By the way it always has been that if the CWB did not accept 100% of the offered amount... the 'designated area' grower has so many days to change the offered amount to the CWB.

Since millers blend CWRS/DNS into Durum to make pasta... why can't we blend durum into CWRS to make bread? 5% wouldn't make a difference... would it?

Why doesn't the US get stuck with their durum....? What is wrong with this picture?

[terralex]

Out of all of this, how many people are still going to grow durum this coming year.

Yes there is a large surplus of durum sitting waiting to be marketed.

Yes the new PRO is so much lower than CWRS.

For now you are stuck marketing grain through the piss poor managment of the CWB. That is not going to change before seed goes into the ground this spring.

My thoughts right now are that if you grow durum this year and expect to move 100% of it and get a premium for it in this next crop year, you have been eating too much ergot.

It is beyond my understanding how some of the same people that are smart enought to know that the CWB sucks at marketing, aren't smart enough to look at a supply-demand table and figure out that they need to grow something else.

I am not a CWB supporter by any stretch, but I am a realist who has figured out that my farm has to work withing certain systems for it to profit.

The only good thing about the new CWB durum pro is that it should finally signal that the world doesn't want any more durum in the next year.

[Jagfarms]

CIGI is looking for different uses for durum and they are testing out a new prouct made from Durum in Japan right now and it sounds very prommissing.

[silverback]

Whale Food? Sushi dip?

[bucket]

I don't even understand why farmers spend research on durum for new varieties or uses. NO ONE wants this stuff.

We are just short of giving them the durum and the so called premium buyers won't take it.

BTW sounds like the cwb is worried about a deficit in the durum pool which is why they are letting farmers out of their contracts.