Hey Willagro...

[wilagro]

Sounds like the CWB is screwing you guys real good. Better look at whose running it and change it REAL FAST.

If it isn't working for you then who is it working for?

Either they change or out it goes...I am not in favour of incompetence.

[TOM4CWB]

Wilagro,

Who wants the CWB?

The Canadian Cattleman.

[The new CWB Act]sets up a situation where the proposed Board would have the motive, the tools, and the opportunity to cause damage to the industries adding value to grain on the prairies. Remove the opportunity. Keep the Canadian Wheat Board and the open market system separate. The Canadian Cattlemen's Association strongly recommends that the power to buy cash grain on the open market not be given to the Canadian Wheat Board.

Incidentally on October the 15th last year, the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool leadership made a trip to meet with cabinet ministers in Ottawa, and those were the exact same points that were made, so it is not just us."
John Prentice CCA 1998 quote from senate hearings.

Hence we are not allowed cash prices today.

So... for farmers/industry who like that the CWB locks in a CDN grain supply for them at no cost or risk...

Retired/or tipsy grain farmers who don't want to make marketing choices... and want to live off their neighbours families hard work... plus the millers/maltsters/NFU/NDP/Bloc and Liberanos.

What chance do you think... commercial grain growers have of changing all these folks minds; Wilagro?

Would you ever allow my families farm to be responsible for our own wheat marketing Wilagro?

How about forcing the CWB to be responsible when BAD marketing decisions are made???

[dalek]

Burnt and Tom, margins vary about as much in Ontario as you can imagine. I know guys getting 100 bushel wheat on land that rents for $300 who wouldn't grow wheat if they didn't think they needed it for rotation or for straw. I can grow 75-80 bushel wheat on land with an average rent this year just under $30. And everything in between. Probably costs us a bit more for planting and harvesting than you with smaller fields here, otherwise probably not a lot of difference.

Something else to keep in mind, I can usually make $40-50/acre off straw alone.

[wmoebis]

dalek at what price does your market start having trouble sourcing WHT?

[dalek]

Not sure I could answer that with a straight out price. Corn prices have too big an effect on how much wheat is grown here to say $X. I will say, with wheat futures where they are and corn prices not overly exciting, there will be record acres going into wheat this fall. Probably by 20-25% over the previous record if this keeps up.