Food inflation is the killer of all business cycles

[smallguy]

Lets face it, its this dam cwb, that's ruining what to me was once a informative and entertaining site. My suggestion to Joe Dales if he wants to save his sit is this.
In the meeting rooms, just below computers and internet is to have a CWB.
THEN, anyone who mentions cwb on the commodity marketing, shall lets say be fined 50 dollars, or allowed no more posts on agriville.
Why do i feel it would work:
If i go on commodity and ask if one should do a fpc or not, then (using saskfarmer3 has an example), can reply and tell me his marketing strategies on my question. No he does not need to give me his long lingo about the cwb. His advice on my question will be greatly appreciated by myself. If he wants to vent off, then go the the cwb discussion site and do it.
No offence Saskfarmer3 I do feel you are as sharp as a tac on marketing.
What do you say joe? Give it a try. Then those that want to vent CWB all the time (feel sorry for you wifes) can do so.

[ALLFARMER]

Is the spring price drop comming early? Usually it hits in March when I want to sell. Must be the high Canadian dollar making our beef more expensive to the American's I hope I am wrong cattle prices need to stay where they are for a couple years not a couple months

[BTOfarmall]

Here's A Taught Boys & Girls....

Tink Long & Hard over dis one, maybe even retink & retink....

If'n you's don't want to reed dee Post about venting on dee CWB or whatever, den simply scroll past it wit yer little fingie on yer mouse. I know thats work, but gist try it fer yer own sake. A little exercise woodn't hurt you's......

[smallguy]

BTO

If you are talking about the cwb that I suggested, then all i can say is you win. You catch on alot quicker than the rest (Dumb like a fox hey!!)

[burnt]

You got that right! Like maybe 4 or 5 years of higher prices?

Well it's O.K. to dream, isn't it? :-}

It's gonna take a while to fill the hole we dug since BSE.

[grassfarmer]

Look at this one instead:

http://charts.insidestocks.com/chart.asp?vol=Y&jav=adv&grid=Y&divd=Y&org=stk&sym= GFF1&data=H&code=BSTK&evnt=adv

I don't think there is anything to worry about - there is only one they are going and that is up.

[gregpet]

That's the problem smallguy, you are guessing and trying to understand what they are posting. If posters cannot take the time to use proper grammer and spell correctly then I don't have the time to read their posts, I just skip right over them since their jibberish does not add to the discussion for me.

[vvalk]

smallguy. There is two arguments here pertaining to the CWB.
1. You can strictly talk about whether to market with a FPC vs stay in the pool since we are stuck with the CWB and lets deal with it

or

2. You can be pissed off that you have two choices that are basically the same thing. Both of which are $1 or more below the market price nevermind delivery and payment. You can then try to make changes so that we can put hundreds of millions of dollars back into farmers pockets. This is 100% profit therefore a windfall for the govt in taxes, dealerships, new farmers, local ecnonomies etc

[burnt]

I think so too Grassfarmer, but that is a bit of a strange one to see that type of action. Time will tell. Meanwhile, the cash market is strong, the calves are putting on pounds and spring is just around the corner.

Well - all but the last one ain't bad!

[ado089]

Food inflation would need to go up 10X to keep pace with oil inflation over the last 80 years. The only thing keeping Africa poor is the africans. Mark my words, Africa is the last agricultural frontier but I don't think we'll see it developed in my lifetime...maybe the end of the century.

[jensend]

i think what has to be considered is that for a fair chunk of the world's population food is a bigger portion of spending than energy. a doubling of food costs and there is nothing left for discretionary spending and thus the rest of the economy will slow down. that's how food prices affect the business cycle. to sit and fume over this is to deny logic. if you have to spend more in one place, over time, you will spend less somewhere else. simple arithmetic tells you if people are struggling to feed themselves they won't be buying the 50" plasma tv anytime soon.

[wmoebis]

Getting a bigger portion of food spending back to the primary producer and the ability to retain it should be our common goal. The price of raw products can raise but there is too many hands in the pie to take it away. Middle men and suppliers take too big of a piece and we are no further ahead. We see this in all commodities.

Everyone is cutting costs and increasing revenue to increase thier bottom line but we producers pay for all that. Rationalization, diversification, amalgamation, specialization etc. all the time the farmers are expected to pay for these shuns.