good news...one more sees the light

[DogPatch]

Profit is what you have after expenses are paid. Not what you take to the bank. They get paid for their product (Milk) and if they manage that right, they have a profit, maybe. Dairy farmers (US or Canadian) earn every penny. Without supply management there would be so much waste. The cost of production would never make our exports of the excess milk competitive, and we would end up dumping it.

BTO......when are you ever going to learn to spell? You make me think you're an idiot.

[SASKFARMER3]

LPA why is cheese way cheaper in the USA than in Canada under supply managed system. Hm farmers in USA are still making money.

[tmyrfield]

Excess cash becomes capitalized into quota prices till the marketing board farmers are just as well off as their open market neighbors. Then the high cost of quota drives up the price of production so the marketing boards charge more for the products.Canadian Consumers end up paying double and triple what american consumers do.

[parsley]

http://freedomfromcwb.blogspot.com/

[parsley]

http://www.diversityworking.com/grain%20grader-state-saskatchewan-city-saskatoon-comp-canadian%20wheat%20board.html

CWB grader? Employees at CGC forgotten how to grade grain?

[parsley]

"WINNIPEG, Manitoba | Fri Jan 14, 2011 2:30pm EST

WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - The world's farmers will grow only slightly more wheat in 2011, the Canadian Wheat Board said on Friday, even as food inflation spurred protests this month and pumped up grain values.

In its first market outlook of 2011, the Wheat Board said that despite attractive prices, global wheat production will be reined in by ongoing concerns about drought in Russia and potential flooding in Canada, as well as high prices of competing crops ahead of planting season in the Northern Hemisphere.

"In terms of food inflation, at the current projection there isn't going to be a huge issue," said Bruce Burnett, the Wheat Board's director of weather and market analysis, in an interview from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. "But if we were to see a couple of weather events happen that move that (production) number lower toward last year or even lower, especially in a major exporting region, then certainly there would be more concerns."

The world will produce 649.5 million tonnes of all types of wheat, up 0.6 percent from the 2010 crop, he said. Canada will harvest 23.8 million tonnes of wheat, the CWB said, up 2.9 percent from last year.

(Reporting by Rod Nickel; editing by Jim Marshall)"

[jdepape]

parsley - the link you gave is by invitation only.
how do you get invited?

[wilagro]

Marketing Boards were and still are a great system for the dairy farmer. The "man in the green hat" knew what he was doing when he put forth enabling legislation for their formation.

American dairy farmers are some of the most stressed farmers going with their cutthroat system down there.

[gregpet]

John, use this email address for an invitation

cropgrower@gmail.com

[parsley]

Here is a cached page so that you get some sense of what you want to participate in:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:kMJaChzT4BQJ:freedomfromcwb.blogspo t.com/ freedomfromcwb.blogspot.&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca


Pars