CWB OUTPERFORMS WITH 8.50 FLEXPRO

[mustardman]

The Big Differemce comparing cattle to grain market is that the cattle has Monopoly Buyers versus the CWB is a monopoly seller

[parsley]

Surley, Christmas Grinch has not stolen your sense of humor.
LOL Pars

[FarmRanger]

<i>The Big Differemce comparing cattle to grain
market is that the cattle has Monopoly Buyers
versus the CWB is a monopoly seller</i>

As the CWB is only one of many sellers in the
world market, I think what you meant to say that
would actually reflect reality is:

<i>The Big Differemce comparing cattle to grain
market is that the cattle has<b>very few</b>
Buyers versus the CWB is <b>the ONLY buyer
for just the farmers in the designated area of
western Canada.</b> </i>

[Fransisco]

Farmranger has nailed it.

[Fransisco]

And any livestock producer who thinks COOL doesn't have an effect doesn't know what he's talking about. Next you'll be telling us that closing the border because of BSE was really nothing.

[wd9]

Hope the CWB and all its customers enjoy my xmas present to them this year. It truly is better to give then receive.

[TOM4CWB]

WD9,

'GIVE' !?!

I had a miller from Britain laugh right in my face in Winnipeg Feb 23 2008. NO way the millers are going to pay for carrying costs... when 'designated area' wheat growers do this at NO COST.

The only 'premium' the CWB extract... or even has the power to extract... is FROM 'designated area' grain growers.

I sat 'grain' growers because the CWB affects all non-board prices when it forces the Board grains must be held in inventory with advances that are practically useless per/t values are so low.

timm Please take off your rose coloured glasses... the thorns keep pricking myself and my community!!!

The CWB marketing system is backwards.

[grassfarmer]

Silverback - can you lock in a price now for delivery of fed cattle in December 2011? If so I'd be interested in knowing at what price.
Mustardman - correct - the CWB is a farmer controlled marketing organisation. If the majority of the farmers think change is needed they will vote for that change - thus far they haven't.
Francisco - what's wrong? - couldn't you find anything on Google about COOL?
TOM4BILL36 - get used to it, the miller would still be laughing in your face if you achieved your "free market" fantasy.

[timm]

so we have two lame excuses of why the Cwb wont
work ....something about unfair protein testers and
uncertainty about what the basis might be in new crop
....boohoo

[FarmRanger]

<i>"If the majority of the farmers think change is
needed they will vote for that change - thus far
they haven't."</i>

I only ever voted once on any such thing and that
was the barley plebiscite. The price of barley
immediately jumped up for a few months until
freedom could be beaten down again, along with
the price of barley.

A vote for the conservatives was supposed to be
a defacto vote for market freedom, but that didn't
pan out either. So we're stuck doing crazy things
like selling #1 winter wheat to feeders because
the only legal buyer for winter wheat is paying
30 cents per bushel less than feed. I wish I had
a penny for every tonne of good durum and
spring wheat that got fed to cows last winter too.

Anyone who thinks this isn't a disgrace either
doesn't grow any wheat or swallows the
propaganda without question.

<i>...."the miller would still be laughing in your
face if you achieved your "free market"
fantasy"</i>
It's a bitter irony that anti-free marketers seem to
think every buyer is an enemy, except the very
one who is actually sticking it to us.

[silverback]

timm,

Answer the question, why can I not, in this excellent system that you love, lock in a price right now for delivery in December? & pick up the full cheque amount that day?

Why can American farmers do that right now?

It shouldn't be that tough should it?

[grassfarmer]

Farmranger - try using the elections to elect the directors you want. That's why TOM4BILL36 stood, it's why your guy Vos was standing. Trouble seems you guys can't organise yourselves whether to vote or abstain. That - and the fact the ones wanting change - ARE IN THE MINORITY!

Again the CWB is not a buyer - it is a marketing agency with farmer directors, and farmer elections. If you want change convince the majority and your change will come.