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    #31
    hey cole you have a little bit of fun in u! I like. pars

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      #32
      chucky - Potash/eggs/milk production can be controlled thus monopoly tends to work. Grain production in western canada is a crap shoot for quality and quantity every year - this is the underlying issue that gets missed when people like you whine about double standerds.

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        #33
        chuckChuck

        You talk about market information. Here is an opinion piece that deals with that.

        [URL="http://www1.agric.gov.ab.ca/$Department/deptdocs.nsf/all/choice13307/$FILE/Strengthening-the-Canadian-Wheat-Board.pdf"]opinion[/URL]

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          #34
          If you want more information on the durum market read the following which was published April 2010. It is now out out of date but explains the situation at the time.
          http://www.cwb.ca/public/en/farmers/forecasts/durum/
          As you can see there are a number of factors in the market that are influencing prices and movement. The long and short of it is world supply is greater than demand. When Durum prices went crazy in 2007-2009, what happened? Producers world wide responded and oversupplied a relatively small tradeable market. That is not the fault of the CWB. If you have too much product for the market what do you expect the CWB to do with it? Dump it in the ocean? Two words - supply and demand.

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            #35
            Actually there was was some grain dumping in the St. Lawrence not too long ago.

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              #36
              chuk i expect that if they don't know what to do with it, then they should realease it to me via FREE export licenses. Please tell me what is wrong about that?

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                #37
                chuckChuck

                Just to correct your premise, the world didn't over produce durum
                Canada. As the CWB has highlighted, Canada is about 50 %. Given
                the two next biggest exporters (US and EU) are also big durum
                importers (high quality Canadian) our actual market share after
                netting these two regions out is bigger.

                So I am going to give you a scenario. The CWB chooses to hold
                durum off the market during periods of rising prices - have the
                market power to do it. Prices go higher. When prices start to come
                down, the CWB still holds supplies in hopes of maintaining price
                levels. Western Canadian inventories are bigger than what they
                might have been based on corporate decision as a single desk - not
                an individual farm manager decision based on their business needs.

                Farms react to the higher prices by increasing acres in response to
                the high prices. Canadian supplies (inventory and production) get
                bigger. Being the major play in the world market, bigger Canadian
                supplies equals lower prices. The single desk seller continues to
                hold supplies off the market to force (we could have a discussion
                about the level of success of this program). Prices still drop below
                spring wheat.

                Three years later. Farmers finally get the signal to drop durum
                acres. Old crop durum plugs the elevator system and they put on a
                massive export program to unload supplies from the system.
                Mother nature signs up on the acreage and quantity followed by the
                double whammy of crappy quality. Durum prices rise. The next
                round of over production continues. So here we sit fall of 2010.

                Perhaps the real sin of Canadian durum is the inability to develop
                new markets. But that is a different thread.

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                  #38
                  Chucky you say overproduction was not the fault of the CWB. Jeeez louise give your head a shake. When they issued Pro's of 3 dollar premiums to wheat 2 months before seeding when the the world was already awash in durum what message did that send to producers at the time and then only to have the board lower it from $8/bus to $5/bus in the coarse of 6 months. The monthly pro's are completely useless and are not worth the paper there written on. The CWB distorts grain markets more then any other entity we know!

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                    #39
                    Don't think the CWB can held 100 % accountable for price. The
                    question is did they do a good job of packaging market
                    opportunities for farmers at the price of the day? If they made the
                    corporate/single decision to hold durum off the market, was it a
                    good one? Whose decision should it be to carry durum between
                    crop years - you as a farmer or the CWB as single desk buyer?

                    Note the question started with monopolies. A first step for a
                    monopoly seller is to control supply. The supply issue is not a CWB
                    one but rather farrmers decisions around acres and Mother Natures
                    decisions around yield and quality.

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