harvest heads up

[mbratrud]

Chuck Chuck,

Why do Grain Handlers like to focus on Board Grains? Because its their highest Margin Handle.. Why is that? Why do the Grain Companies make more money handling Wheat and Durum than Canola? In my 15 years working for Grain Co's Agricore, SWP, WIT and a Cargill JV, our focus was always CWB Grains because it paid the best. Why is that?

There is no doubt in my mind that after the CWB is done there will be first a flurry of Agribusiness investment in Canada. Mostly from multinationals that are not here in a big way yet. Then they will spend the next five years blowing their brains out competing for the business. After that period when the dust settles our grain trade will look a lot different. Good or Bad I guess we will wait and see, but one thing I feel confident it won't be any worse.

All these scare tactics from PRO CWB is starting to sound like soldiers in cities with guns... Chuck Chuck you didn't run for the libs at one time did you?

[jensend]

i think instead of blowing their brains out competing they will just buy up the competition. that's the way it's done nowadays. forget competition and innovation - invest in market power. take a look at the beef industry. two players makes for no competition.

[Hopperbin]

Wheat at 11 percent and canola at 5 here also. Canola sample not perfect clean but loaded truck has a lot of weight to it. Even plugged up the 9120 rotor 5 times before realized just had to crank up the rpms to 600, I thought it would be so brittle that I tried 450 rpm at first. so good thing did not have a John Deere may have been sitting for a while.

[Hopperbin]

This combine is so easy to drive it tells you what to do when you plug it up. No getting out of the driver's seat.

[wmoebis]

mbratrud, I've always wonderd about how the grain Co's make over and above the elevation charges and on how much they make for handling non board crops.

Could you please give us some of your figures. That would be interesting to see where and how the money is made.