CWB and Winter wheat; INSANITY

[TOM4CWB]

Charlie et el,

I hear the CWB is about to mess with the CWRW class again.

CDC Falcon... is being forced to be dumped into the 'industrial' feed class?

What happend to the wheat registration process in western Canada?

Falcon was the base variety for a decade. In the US it still has no problem bringing a buck a bushel more than in the CWB 'designated area'!

If the CWB wants to depreciate the value of my CDC Falcon... FINE.

GIVE ME MY NO COST EXPORT LICENSE.

Then you turkeys can do anything you want.

THIS is pure stupid insanity!

[TOM4CWB]

Just because it yields more, stands better, has higher protein... means the off shore buyer and grain co should get a 20% discount?

WHAT GARBAGE IS THIS?

THe whole select class is stupidity. Sealing our 'high quality' winter wheat for less; for nearly a decade.

NOT once have we been paid one cent from of the select premium.

NOW the CWB wants the whole CWRW class for less... we can IP everything everywhere... EXCEPT winter wheat?

WHAT IS THIS?

WHY hasn't the CWB bought every lb of select winter wheat our farm has grown over the past seven years... as select winter wheat?

I wouldn't trust these price discounting 'experts' as far as I could throw '423 Main' down Portage and Main!

THis is simply the CWB playing the same old game... get more for less.

ARE we EVER slow.!!!

[bucket]

I know how you feel tom4cwb.

I grew flax and because some seed growers (NOT YOU i realize this) decided to keep some of the triffid back for speculating the variety would be reregistered, the whole market is screwed. See the WP a couple weeks back.

Completely ruined the market and has now price discrimination policies in place depending on "the test"

Essentially we now have a select and standard flax market.

It happens everywhere.

[Fransisco]

Good grief Charlie Brown! Falcon was pretty much the only winter wheat variety grown by myself and my neighbors. It's the one that got the job done. Now the Board in it's infinite elitist wisdom takes that choice away as well. Unbelievable!

[stubblejumper]

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Should CDC Falcon be demoted to General Purpose?1/12/2010 | By Jay Whetter, Grainews
Winter wheat growers need to deal with the CDC Falcon issue if they hope to improve the end-use quality of the Canada Western Red Winter Select class.

This issue was raised during the Saskatchewan Winter Cereals Development Commission meeting Monday at Crop Week in Saskatoon. The Canadian Wheat Board is trying to sell Canada Western Red Winter (CWRW) Select wheat in a market dominated by U.S. Hard Red Winter.

The challenge, according to Michael Lackmanec, the CWB’s director of marketing strategy, is that U.S. HRW has consistently higher protein -- a key indicator of milling quality -- and annual volumes of 30 million tonnes or so. Canada produces about one million tonnes of CWRW with protein down around 11 per cent. Millers and bakers in this market are looking for a consistent supply of mid-quality milling wheat in high volumes and at a decent price. CWRW Select has a hard time competing.

So Western Canada’s winter wheat growers have to improve their product quality if they want to sell winter wheat into the milling market.

Therein lies the issue with CDC Falcon. It, along with four other less-popular varieties, has poor milling quality yet is still in the CWRW class. Granted, it’s not on the Select list, so it rarely gets selected for the milling market, but its presence in the class suggests that Western Canada is not really serious about developing a milling market for winter wheat. That’s the argument. “We want to cruise forward rather than sputter,” Lackmanec says.
Michael Lackmanec, the Canadian Wheat Board’s director of marketing strategy, explained to members of the Saskatchewan Winter Cereals Development Commission why CDC Falcon hurts the Canadian Western Red Winter class. -- Jay Whetter photo


The CWB has proposed two options:

Option 1 is to demote CDC Falcon, CDC Clair, CDC Harrier, Kestrel and Raptor to the Canada Western General Purpose (GP) class.

Simple. Problem solved. Growers can still grow these varieties and sell them into feed markets as they’ve always done. The CWRW class is cleaned up…

Oh, but not so fast. CDC Falcon is far and away the most popular winter wheat in Manitoba, accounting for 68 per cent of acres. Demote Falcon to GP and Manitoba Winter Cereals Inc.’s checkoff is gutted to the bone.

Without Falcon checkoff money, Manitoba Winter Cereals can’t fund important research programs. Without research, winter wheat production fades. And since Manitoba accounts for a large percentage of winter wheat acres in Western Canada, winter cereals growers across the Prairies are willing to compromise.

Enter Option 2. Leave Falcon on the CWRW list for a couple years, then cut it loose. In that time, Manitoba growers, with help from breeders, will have to adopt a milling-quality replacement.

That’s easier said than done, since new and high-quality winter wheat varieties are hard to come by these days. Rob Graf, a breeder with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada at Lethbridge, has a new variety, Broadview, but it’s a GP and doesn’t help as a Falcon replacement.

However, his W434 is eligible for the Select group. It also has protein of 12.3 per cent compared to 11.2 for the checks, yield 104 per cent of checks, and sufficient rust resistance for Manitoba. That will be the variety to watch.

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[Fransisco]

Option 3- Let farmers sell their falcon to whomever they want to.

I'm tired of listening to lazy Board salesman crying boo hoo we can't sell low protein wheat. The rest of the world doesn't have that problem.

[TOM4CWB]

Stubble,

What is wrong with IP and the Select Winter Wheat class... run as it should be... if you have it the CWB is FORCED to accept select if the purity is there!

This is simply a ploy to get higher quality at a lower price... just like they did with CPS Red and White, and now CWHWS... (Hard White)... the CWB has destroyed every IP premium they ever started.

It is a prank... and a tired one at that!

[Fransisco]

So when are we all going to get a vote on this issue? LOL!

[Ron]

So does the CWB handle GP wheat? Not that I want them to but if they dont why the hell cant we sell it where WE want?
I am so tired of this bullshit. The rest of the world can grow our "premium varieties", Ontario can grow whatever the hell they want, but we peasants are owed by the god damned wheat board? WTF?
"LET MY PEOPLE FREE" LOL

SCREW THE CWB (and you traitorous greedy CWB cherry pickers to. You should be ashamed of yourselves for abandoning the collective)

Enough. Off to hockey.