What happened to CWB premium Service to growers?

[parsley]

Would I be wrong to conclude the previous post exhibits a trace of the 30-yr-old-plus pessimism regarding Wheat Board marketing that I was referring to my post? I would expect the Derochers reaction to CWB marketing to not be quite so timid. Pars

[cottonpicken]

We've taken containers out of japan,so i know i can
drop one into japan,not exactly early 1900's marketing
problems.

Somebody doesnt pay for one container....oh my good
gosh.... a couple percent right off for the income tax
man.

[Happytrails]

Looks like you guys had a good one going.
Much livelier than the beef threads I normally frequent. Interesting story Pars. How can anyone believe that handing their blood, sweat, and tears earned crop over to government minions to market is a good idea? Oh well, its one of the reasons that all tillable acres around here are growing grass or hay. HT

[parsley]

Thanks, ht. I am so incredibly sad when I relay what western farmers endure. And farmers remain premiere wealth creators. Remarkable group of people. Not one of them would be burning police cars in Toronto.

More forage here as well, in fact the whole area grows a lot of forage. Buckwheat planting still a happening, too. Glad you showed up for a virtual coffee. Pars

[stubblejumper]

Pars love the way you distort things to make them sound good. The FARMERS FOR JUST ME are still and allways will be a small minority.

[charliep]

stubblejumper

Encourage you to look at the CWB annual producer. The group that would disagree with you is young and large - there is black and white. What is needed for the CWB to survive is changes to meet the needs of this new group of farmers with higher debt loads and different expectations.

The original topic was about farmers decisions around carrying crop between crop years. This has been an issue since the beginning of time - read 60 years. CWB programs and a different attitude to risk have driven changes but no real creativity in handling operations risk/providing farmers with innovative tools. The answer to any CWB problem is to do more of the same but with tighter rules.

[parsley]

I've noted the marketing "tuning" the CWB has done over the past few years, and the marketing "adjustments" the trade has made over the past few years and the marketing "accomodation" that growers have made over the past few years, and another dry farmgate financial spell has passed.

There is no premium.

And there never will be a premium, for old or young, in a system that forces a grower to sell what he grows.

Tom has once again highlighted the in-purse results of having to hand over grain to a politically controlled entity with political goals.

Tweaking brings no premium. So as long as we are satisfied with tweaking, we're income-lost.

I didn't make it look anything,stubble. That is what actually happened.

pars