CWB! Lowest price is the Law!

[furrowtickler]

The problem is alot of cwb permit book holders have absolutely no cost of production at all and will never complain as long as they get their pmts in the mail or direct deposited into retierment funds. That's a problem I have, they have no clue as to the actual farmers cop and could care less. Thus they will always support the cwb regardless of performance. But also cop is widely different from fsrmer to farmer.

[samhill]

Yes Charlie and Furrow, keep on creating that smoke
haze and adjust the mirrors.

[Choice2U]

Samhill...TRUST THE CWB is the biggest smoke/haze ever to exist in the grains industry. Every supporter argues the CWB is best but never supplies any concrete arguements that are based on anything more than TRUST. Ex. Richard Grey study funded by the CWB based on information supplied by the CWB. Oh, but I guess that isn't trust.

[Fransisco]

citiguy try this data set on for size

http://www.mgex.com/history/historical_new.cfm

You can get the average daily in the farmers pocket cash price for hard red spring in over 300 elevators going back over more than a decade. You can download it in excel format make the appropriate currency adjustments and easily do comparisons until the cows come home.

I have, and there's no doubt about it, there is no premium, the cwb sucks and my family has been getting screwed for the last three generations on our wheat.

[cityguy]

thanks for this. So the average price this year has been $5.15 and the dollar at about 95 cents makes it about $200 Cdn at the elevator pit. Can't find what protein this is for though? Which protein are they quoting. Won't get into the weeds as to a weighted average price as opposed to a straight average as this should be close enough. At the end of the day it's all about benchmarking against US and only US values, correct?

[furrowtickler]

sam, old pal, what I stated is 100% correct and you know it. At least 1/3 of cwb eligible voters never spend a dime on the crops grown under the cwb stangle hold, thus don't care what the performance is as long as they get their petty little interm pmt's in the mail or direct deposited.

[samhill]

Furrow, what you say is more than likely
correct,buuuut. The problem with the CWB is not
that some people have more money than others.

[furrowtickler]

I never said it did, ever. That is irrevillent realy. It is about being able to have a stronger voice for those who are dirrectly effected by poor returns that take all the risk in seeding those crops, thats it in the nutshell. Most of us can not seed cwb grains for free anymore, it costs big money to fert for protein, spray herbicides, fungicides and insecticides(wheat midge). And at the end of the day watch the horrible performance of the board - than listen to cwb supporters still deffend this b/s systym from armchairs.