My Experience at the C to C

[BTOfarmall]

TomNot4CWB You sir are fer da Destruction or da Bored. You's might be foolin' everyone here wit yer Quotin' Stats & Scripture, Employin' yer poor Investigatin' Tatics, but you's ain't gonna fool I or Burbert, dat I kin tell you's....

Bullsh!t is cheap, Takes Money to buy da Whiskey...

[TOM4CWB]

You would know, GTO.

[BTOfarmall]

Why don't you tell all da guys/gals here what da G stands fer??? Maybe den we kin all join in on yer laughter....

[lnewman]

Tom You always have good comments and feedback .
You and many others are trying to make our industry
better unlike others .Your only flaw is acknowledging
bto and burbert . They seem to wreck most threads.

[TOM4CWB]

Inewman,

We all have difficult folks to deal with each day.

Burbert and GTO make me appreciate every one else... just a little more!

Shucks... Agstar77 is almost a saint now!!!

[booboo04]

TOM4CWB, I don't know what BTO said to get you going (I don't read anything from BTO anymore), but just ignore BTO as he/she has nothing but garbage to add to any post.... But I do value what you say.

[TOM4CWB]

Booboo04,

Thanks!

""Nobody loses anything by being polite,
but there are a lot of people who are afraid to take the risk."

[Jagfarms]

It was good meeting you lnewman at the c to c.
It would have been good if we could have talked more.

I enjoyed the break out session and to hear different opinions and ideas from different farmers from different areas of the prairies
.
In the group I was in for the break out session there was not many farmers that opposed the Cwb or if they did they did not say so.
It would have been a bit more interesting for myself if there was more farmers in my group for the break out session that are opposed to the Cwb.

For my self the only Cwb crop we grow is Durum on our farm which makes up to 40 percent of our seeded acres.

Now I will get blasted for this and I can just imagine the response I will get from some of you for this.

I am happy having the Cwb market my Durum for me.

For me I do not like to forward contract as when ever I do I never seem to come ahead. I forward contracted 80 tonnes of Red lentils last fall for 20 cents/lb. There was some 30 cent prices after harvest. I had forward priced lentils, peas and canola in the past with act of God and very seldom did it work out for me.
For myself I like to make my contracts when I have the crop in the bin and I know the quality and quantity of what I have.
For the Durum harvest of 2009 if we could have forward contracted our Durum there was some good prices available.
I would not have done so and I would have waited until after harvest to contract any Durum and by then the high prices were not available.

I carried almost all my Durum from 2009 into this new crop year. The Cwb did not take all the Durum last crop year and the Durum prices sucked. The way I look at it they did me a favor for not taking all the Durum. The rest of the Durum I moved forward from last crop year to this year cost me $5 tonne but I will come out way further ahead than if I would have sold it last crop year or into the US market last year.
The Cwb told us not to grow Durum in the spring of 2009 the signals where there. I decided to seed it, it was up to me.

The prices in the US in 2009 were just as crappy as our price for Durum in Canada.
When the world prices are crappy not much the Cwb can do.

The Cwb did they did not take all the Durum in 2009, which in my opinion was the right thing to do.

[bucket]

Jag

Are you on hallucinating drugs or did you drink too much of the koolaid at that conference.

In feb 09 the durum pro was at 300 per tonne. At that same time american farmers were signing 7.00 plus durum contracts for the fall. All the cwb did was continually lower the pro until it fit into their pathetic sales equation. They did you no favours for the last crop year or this one. By the time you are delivering durum it will be over 9.00 dollars in the states and you stored it for two years. End. My bloods boiling.

[Jagfarms]

Hard to type on my Black berry.

Hard to say what we will end up for a final Durum price for this crop year but it will be significantly higher than last year.
If I had the money in the bank there is no way I could make that much interest in the bank.
If I had to borrow to pay bills the gain in the Durum price would more than make up for interest charges.

As for Wheat and Barley I have no opinion to share as I only grow feed barley and hardly grow any wheat.

The initial payments do suck and it is a long time to wait for the money to come.
That was one of the biggest complaints is that the initial payments suck. The Cwb said they are trying to do something about the low initial payments.
I do not participate in any of the other payment options available to farmers so I can not comment on them.