Maybe listen to the Aussies

[mustardman]

silver you've been drinking the Alberta koolaid way too long

[silverback]

You are going to be ok with $6 per Bushel less for your Durum this year? That's almost $30,000 dollars on a 30 bushel crop musty.

I wonder if I asked your family if they would like an extra 30k from that quarter what they would say?

BTW, our "Alberta Kool Aid" is long gone. We have a bunch of liberal/dippers in conservative clothing and they lost their way a long time ago. If they would have ever kept their word, you sask/man guys would have had this cwb albatross all to yourself many years ago.

[FarmRanger]

How is that poor performance even possible?
My durum isn't even headed out yet and my state
monopoly buyer is already telling me that the
best I can hope for is $6 under the market price!!

How many sweetheart deals have we already
been obligated to provide durum this cheap for
anyway?

This horrific abuse should have been ended
immediately, and the auditor general needs to be
given the authority to find the missing money.

[TOM4CWB]

Farmranger,

"How is that poor performance even possible?"

BECAUSE section 46 of the CWB Act requires the low price to maintain the single desk.

The folks in Australia were not this crazy... ONLY Crazy Canucks would take an Act made to Confiscate grain... keep prices low for Europe's needs... then have Goodale extend that franchise to a Board so it would be continued indefinately.


COntainer sales were allowed outside the Aussie 'single desk'... they were smart enough to at least provide an arbitage mechanism for a grain grower down under.

Mustard want $6/bu off our Canola value and 3/bu off our pulses... we are floating in money... and need a charity like Mustard!

[jhurkot]

How do all the pro-cwb guys defend the fact that even
if you sold your grain on the open market on the
WORST day of the year you will still get a higher price
than through the CWB? Even if you do the worst
possible job marketing you will still win. Oh that's
right we sell our wheat to break even so we can make
all our profit on flax/canola/peas/lentils.

[Fransisco]

The forecast is for a record amount of wheat acres to be grown in Australia this year.

Hmm... without the wheat board around the Aussies grow more wheat. Yup, that's worth listening to.

[TOM4CWB]

Section 46
"46. The Governor in Council may make regulations

d) to prescribe the terms and conditions on which licences described in paragraph (c) may be granted, including a requirement for the recovery from the applicant by the Corporation or any other person specified by the regulation, of
a sum that, in the opinion of the Corporation, represents the pecuniary benefit enuring to the applicant pursuant to the granting of a licence, arising solely by reason of the prohibition of exports of wheat and wheat products without a
licence and then existing differences between prices of wheat and wheat products inside and outside Canada;"

" then existing differences between prices of wheat and wheat products inside and outside Canada;"

So if the CWB keeps the price LOW inside the 'designated area'... then they have a monopoly.

If the price of wheat were a premium... to prices outside the 'designated area'... THE CWB has NO monopoly... because there is no "pecuniary benefit enuring to the applicant" for an export license.

So the system we have now... of the 'single desk' buying monopoly... assures us we will always average LESS than fair market value... just by the way the CWB Act is written... BY Goodale himself in 1998.

[wakopa]

hate to see cwb poeple on jury duty they wouldnt know what evidence was

[TOM4CWB]

wakopa,

I would like just ONE 'single desk' monopoly supporter show me... anywhere in the CWB Act or regulations... where it actually states the CWB Corporation is responsible to maximise 'designated area' grain growers returns for the Board grains it markets.

Goodale intentionally left this obligation for a sucessful grain marketing corporation OUT. IT does not exist.

SO just as the CWB structure itself creates and the services that are flowing out of that structure... the CWB discounts to the premium prices other private grain marketers obtain.

Cargill, Viterra, Richardsons... none of the independants... have any interest in undercutting each other in the broader market globally... and loosing money and competitive market share.

The CWB theory about the 'single desk' buying monopoly... is a goofy idea that can not be possible... simply because the CWB does not have enough market share in the wheat of barley market... to stop subsitution for other origin grain.

Mustard... WHO do you work for?

[Raven]

Tom, read the act as you copied it. It says: inside and outside CANADA. It does not say: inside and outside the designated area. Also, this is not Goodale legislation. It was made in 1947 and is essentially unchanged.

[TOM4CWB]

Raven,

I believe Goodale had an obligation to fix the section 46 problem... he did not... he is responsible.

Instead he made 47.1 and Director Elections that fail to recognise property rights of commercial grain growers that are most affected by the Goodale CWB ammendments.