what can be done to improve the CWB???

[gregpet]

Well I guess I'm different, I want complete transparency in my marketing so I guess no CWB.

I guess this is your selfishness showing. Why would a voluntary CWB not work? They would have to earn their business, somehow you feel this is a bad thing?

[Ron]

My suggestions on the CWB would get me
put on the no fly list. So I will try
to be polite

I used to think it was a dinosaur that
outlived its purpose.

I have since decided that it is still
fulfilling its purpose. ****ing me over
so they can protect the interests of the
shipping industry (railroads and St.
Lawrence shipping), elevators, and the
hacks in Winnipeg protecting their jobs.

Ever wonder why the CWB is not in
Ontario or Quebec? Because they are the
backbone of the country of Canada. We
are the colonies whose purpose is still
to send money east.

Don't just end the monopoly. End the
board. If you don't have time to market
your Durum then don't ****ing grow it.
Stick to your special crops, or hire
somebody else to run your off-farm
trucking business, or hire somebody to
market it for you.

Don't worry about them being accountable
for anything, just tell them how much
grain you have and be happy when they
decide to call for it and pay you for
it. (the same as the CWB does for you
do now. Just don't involving me or my
farm)

There are no CWB premiums, it is a CWB
discount.

So in closing...

END THE CWB. NOW

[FarmRanger]

ColevilleH2S is right; as long as you have no choice who to sell to, farmers have no way to enforce accountability.

If I sign up production with someone and they underperform the market, they'd better have a good excuse. It happens again and I’m able to go elsewhere = they're accountable.

A good motivator for the CWB not to have blow out sales with our production: we're less likely to supply you next time if we have any other choice. No heavy hand of enforced supply will mean the CWB will have to choose accountability or irrelevance.

The only choice I have is to dump good wheat into the feed market. Some choice.

[Jagfarms]

Question

If the Cwb gave you the choice of going into a pricing pool for 3 months or for one year which would you choose? 

You can only pick a 3 month pooled price or 1 year pooled price.

I would pick the 3 month pooled price option.

[freewheat]

Anything short of ending this entity
will continue having me grow all non-
board crops until such time as the
entity is gone. I am excerising the
choice I currently have which is to not
grow wheat. I can grow a mean wheat
crop, but my banker has trouble with me
not coming up with solid estimates of
this wheats value. He also has issues
when I have trouble telling him how much
more I expect out of last years crop
come December.

So I will continue to abstain from
growing wheat. Anyone who hates the cwb
should IMO do the same and starve them
out.

[Jagfarms]

freewheat
Good on you. I know a few farmers that do the same as you.

Like I mentioned in another thread. Different areas have different perspectives on the CWB.

In our area I would say over 80 percent of the farmers are pro CWB.

It is the opposite where lnewnan is from by the sounds of it. He went to the c to c to find a farmer that is pro CWB. I went looking for farmers that are anti CWB to hear what they had to say.

[furrowtickler]

so jag to follow it up, it should be voluntary to acomidate everyone. Monopolies only work effectively in controled supply managed markets for both quantity and quality - neither of which is possible in grain production in western canada. This is the main problem with the board, always has been and always will be. How can you support something that should have sold every kernel of durrum at the highest prices in history only to sell it 18 months later for $4/bus ????
I agree with Ron 100% on this one.

[Ron]

Jag, how about you grow 100% CWB grains so
you stop dumping your special crops to
subsidize your board crops? It should be
mandatory for you to grow CWB crops.

You are manipulating other peoples
markets. (manipulating is a nice word for
****ing up)

END THE CWB... NOW

[Ron]

Jag, how about you grow 100% CWB grains so
you stop dumping your special crops to
subsidize your board crops? It should be
mandatory for you to grow CWB crops.

You are manipulating other peoples
markets. (manipulating is a nice word for
****ing up)

END THE CWB... NOW

[farmaholic]

Furrowtickler:

"Monopolies only work effectively in controled supply managed markets for both quantity and quality"

Even more important to a Monopoly or supply managed market is a CAPTIVE MARKET, where the buyer doesn't have any other options. Once again unlike anything in the grain market we have to sell into. Could it get any bigger than the world market????