Oat & Forage Great Free Market Examples

[Burbert]

Two examples of how good the open market
will get, without the cwb. Can't wait fer
the lying and cheating to begin if'n the
open free market comes to fruition. Yup
Comedians will get what they deserve, a
level playing field wit no rocks, only
low, low, and lower priced grain. The cow
guys gotta live too!!

[freewheat]

You think oats was better under the board? DO tell, Do tell.

[farmaholic]

Is the principle at risk at all or is it guaranteed?

[charliep]

GIC or a bond?

[Gofer]

It is a Member Investment Plan, a term deposit really, that is neither guaranteed or insured. It is secured by UFA's balance sheet and reputation only. Interest paid semi annually by direct deposit. Details on UFA.com

[sumdumguy]

The cow guys gotta live, too? What does that
mean? You want me to subsidize their industry?

Who else would you like me to subsidize?

There is a fair market price. The grain producer
has overhead and expenses and needs to live,
too. By distorting the feed prices, you are helping
no one but the meat processors and meat
marketers. The free market has to decide
through arbitrage where the happy medium is,
not you, not CWB, not me.

[charliep]

In general, you would need to check out annual reports to answer the question you posed. Are available on the UFA website.

[Klause]

I sell hay at $40/bale. I get bitched at every winter for "gouging" the poor cattle farmer.

I have CoP. I need to cover it, and I need to make at least enough to make it worth my time.... I will subsidize NO ONE.

I grow a little bit of oats every other year, and bin it. When it's $3.50/bu I sell it. There.... Free market at work

[wilagro]

No dividend for two years. I wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole...in fact I am pulling my equity OUT.

[CeePen]

Interesting that the oat millers were only built after the CWB got out of the biz. Used to be 80% of oats went feed. Now it's only 20% and the rest into value-added food. Coincidence?

[Burbert]

Yeah there is huge money in oats! Why
grow anything else? Forage seed money is
huge really huge. Why grow anything else.
Dream on Comedians, dream on......

[groundspeed]

The cwb is why there are no pasta or ethenol plants being built in the praries. They want freedom.

[cottonpicken]

Wil,and Charlie i remembered you two as paper
pushers a while back?

Paper assets have been burning for a decade,act
accordingly,whats that insanity definition?

[checking]

There may not be hugh money in oats, but there is good money in oats considering they will replace the money losing board wheat in rotation.

The guys that laugh at oats are the same guys that haven't the climate for growing them.

[sumdumguy]

Burbert, we know that you think that Main Street
Winnipeg is the centre of the universe, but
special crop producers have shown all of us that
the free market works well to the benefit of a
great many producers and communities.

Sorry, but your fears are your own. Keep them
for the CWB. It will be all yours, lucky guy.