what can be done to improve the CWB???

[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????

[Ron]

Hm, I can finally see how you can double
post by accident. (That wasn't me making
a statement)

[lnewman]

Free wheat. By growing non board crops we are showing no one. The board does
not give a shit if you grow board grains. They only get a premium on 6 million
tonnes of wheat. The other 70% they fire sell. They don't need more wheat to sell,
it is just more work for them they all get paid the same whether you grow it or
not. With more and more farmers growing other crops, because of cash flow and
principle, we are now hurting the non board grains by flooding markets with more
volumes.
Jag you are the only board supporter who has a constructive voice on this blog
thanks .
With all their personal agendas the pro board directors are the most unfit group of
farmer directors I've ever seen. This group does not have the ability to give
management direction therefore they cannot be transparent and won't shorten
pools. So the chance for change is not going to happen until the board implodes!

[mustardman]

SCRAP all the programs and have Only pooling ( maybe with shorter pooling periods )

I grow 6 other crops that are open market so I do not mind that my Durum is thru the board.

The CWB came UP with all these alternatives to Pooling to try and satisfy the anti board fellows.

NEWSFLASH They wouldn't be satisfied if you left a gold bar on their door step Every morning, So SCRAP all the options and Have only the pool

[Ron]

Mustardman, then stop growing the other 6
options.