Unofficial election results

[bluefargo]

I can't believe farmers in district 3 voted for Stewart Wells. The board is indeed in grave danger of becoming irrelevant. And yes three organic farmers on the board is very odd.

[grassfarmer]

No TOM I wasn't defending the cwb I was pointing out that producers had the democratic right to vote for change in this election and if they didn't do that they can't really complain. I don't sell anything to the board and I never claimed to. Doesn't stop me having an opinion or the right to air it.

Farmranger, you are right cheap feed should make calves worth more. If I was only concerned with my own self interest I would say please continue with your anti - cwb campaign. Once they are gone the Cargills and ADMs of this world will make sure that grain is very, very cheap on the prairies.

[Kodiak]

grassfarmer. Now I'm really beginning to think you're driven only ideology. Statements like your last one don't mean much, except I suppose it does reveal something about your approach to your business (and it seems, mine too). Canola is bought (in competition with dozens of other buyers) by the ADM's and Cargill's. In fact these two are a couple of the biggest buyers. Canola is $13/bushel. Why have these companies not made sure it is cheap?

[FarmRanger]

Grassfarmer, why is canola profitable if the CWB
isn't defending us against the evil big
companies?

In fact why is canola way<b> more </b>profitable
than wheat?
Don't kid yourself grassfarmer, those big
companies are more fond of the CWB than you
are. They could care less what the price of
wheat is, as they get paid regardless.
Alternatively, they have to bid for my canola.

[Kodiak]

FarmRanger-will you get out of my brain?

[FarmRanger]

LOL kodiak, we even posted at the exact same
time.

[fjlip]

Same old same old. As I have said many times, last and only only hope is Conservative majority, hope you are all sending cheques for political tax credits for 2010.

[cchurch]

You people truly are morons.

How can you compare wheat to canola?

They are two completely different things, with completely different market conditions.

It would be like comparing crude oil to gold.

Using your logic you could say that OPEC gets lower prices for oil, because Gold mining is more profitable.

Also why is it that most open market agricultural commodities are a flop?

[FarmRanger]

<i>"You people truly are morons.">

The final argument of those who don't have
anything better.

<i>How can you compare wheat to canola? </i>

Merely pointing out the fact that if the big bad
grain companies haven't ruined our profit margins
in free market canola, there is no reason to
believe they would do it to wheat either.  

<i>Using your logic you could say that OPEC
gets lower prices for oil, because Gold mining is
more profitable. </i>

Maybe, but only if you could squeeze gold out of
an oil well  <b>and</b> OPEC was a
government mandated single desk oil buying
agency that artificially suppresses the price of oil.  

<i>Also why is it that most open market
agricultural commodities are a flop?</i>

Assuming there is such a thing, it's certainly not
because the CWB isn't selling their product for
them.

[TOM4CWB]

cchurch,

Get some charts and check how oil and gold do track each other. US $ value and beans/canola/wheat/corn/oil all now track closely as the bioeconomy takes hold.