More rain next 5 days!

[SASKFARMER3]

Weather looks awfull for the next 5 days. We are fighting to get the last two done but if we don't go tomorrow I think that's it. Well be at 99 percent. I guess were lucky just north buddy with 12000 acres who is always first done is at only at 3000. Neighbour can't pull liquid tank to seed. So the 10th of june if that's our next start up date were done seeding for 2010. Why mud and spend a bunch for frozen crop.

[Fransisco]

Free markets trump regulators. Again.

[boarderbloke]

so can you now, plant, grow and sell flax, without testing it for Triffid?

[Fransisco]

I doubt it.

[bucket]

Sad part of the story is that IF Canada would have a flax crushing industry this would not have been an issue in the first place.

Who do think is making the most in the value added train?

Canadian farmers,Chinese crushers, or the EU ?

Instead of putting money into crushing, the flax council and governments are out developing another variety of gm flax.

[furrowtickler]

Sad part number 2 - flax acres are going to be way down with the normal flax area under water/flooded out, not seeded. Flax may be the revenue leader in 2011?

[fjlip]

All flax stubble was the driest fields to seed, another plus in a soggy spring.

[Gerald_sk]

Kind a sick commentary on the general attitudes on the this
board. Free market is work because we are screwing the farmers
out of about $4/bushel and got a lot more middleman skimming
money out of our pockets.
Any read the story about how Viterra is screwing farmers down
under. I think it is New Zealand where they are import grain
at a cost of about $100 more than they pay local farmers.

[TOM4CWB]

Fransisco,

How much flax are you stuck with?

This 'crisis' has cost our farm thousands... and we sold just under 600bu of seed this spring...

7000 left.

You really don't think this cost farmers, grain co's... EU cushers... $$$millions out of pocket?

THINK AGAIN.

[wd9]

Tom, what are the tarrifs on flax oil as opposed to seed from Canada to EU? Does China have any? I'm assuming not hence the reason they are crushing.

[TOM4CWB]

WD9,

I understand the meal value is very important... why we do not crush it in Canada is the meal market. We must export our canola meal... and the flax meal has the gm event in it. It takes time to develop new markets that accept the GM event.

Flax yeilds 20-30% less than canola... so at 80-90% of canola it is not competitive to grow.

[fjlip]

If the high pressure is parked in the Midwest like Larry says, it could rain for all of June. Won't be much crop left alive. If that forecasted Aug frost happens good Lord what a ZERO year that will be for the history books!

[checking]

I'm sure hog farmers were grateful that the free market found a home for their porkers. The fact they went for nine dollars a head didn't matter.

There will always be journalists who believe that the only important thing is having an outlet for goods.

[Fransisco]

Tom, I never said nobody lost any money. I'm just passing on what I'm seeing in the news. The movement of flax around the world has realigned, it is no longer stopped at the EU border. That's a good thing.

[TOM4CWB]

Fran,

I don't know what Morris is trying to acheive with his article. If we give something away at a 30% or more discount... yes normally someone will buy it and find new uses. The CWB markets this way all the time. In the end... it shure doesn't help our farms to be in the bust boom cycle... magnified by this kind of problem. I wouldn't wish this gm event issue on anyone... and I know flax traders and exporters have been hurt as well.