Stewart Wells and the AGT Pasta Plant

[cottonpicken]

Lol,i really got to stop skipping over posts.

[sumdumguy]

It'll never be clear to I_F. He must be so blinded by losing his cushy little office that he may blow the top of his own head off. Feel like a steam engine foul mouthed fanatic?

[Hopperbin]

"We have built a successful global pasta business based out of our production facilities in Turkey. With the good conditions in Canada, we feel that significant opportunities exist to expand our operations here. Our relationships with growers in Western Canada and our relationships with our international customers we sell to everyday create opportunities and synergies that we feel may be realized through this investment. This expansion is an important step in ensuring a strong foundation for our future by solidifying our pasta milling capacity in Canada and moving us further up the value chain in our pulses platform. This, we feel, will assist in enabling us to continue to successfully and profitably supply the world with pulse ingredients and our other products," added Mr. Huseyin Arslan, Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors for AGT.

[wilagro]

"create opportunities and synergies"...yep words right out of pro public relations firm's workbook.

Ordinary people don't speak like that.

[wilagro]

According to the "Financial Times" Murad Al-Katib makes $780,000 a year in his position with Atlantic Grain Traders Inc..

That is not bad compensation.

Of course he could make more than that through other duties and/or positions with the companies that he is involved with. I wonder how many durum wheat growers make that kind of money.

[checking]

Wilagro.

When you were heading that millon dollar company you mentioned, were you satisfied with your pay? More - less than your farming?

I think you will agree that there is a mile of difference between making $780,000 and keeping $780,000. It's peanut butter compared to some of the posters on here.

It's said that the wheel of justice grinds slow, but it grinds fine. Too bad your board wouldn't have hit the mill on August 2011.

[Hopperbin]

Wilagrow you seem to be well educated, what do you propose? Should we make it illegal to make that kind of money as a ceo of an agriculture based corporation?

[wilagro]

I think that the man has been very successful...more power to him. This is a wonderful country to live in.

Just shows how if one applies him/herself the rewards will come.

I wasn't making a point but just provided some background info. Somehow you guys are trying to read more into things than what was intended.

[chuckChuck]

It looks like AGT is proposing a durum milling facility not a full blown pasta facility. Probably to supply their pasta plants and other plants in other locations. Robin Hood, Prairie Flour, and Paterson Global to name a few all operate flour milling facilities that were opened before the open market.

Don't expect a boom in processing on the prairies with wheat and durum. Most of it will still go out in raw form because of transportation costs.

If the CWB was selling at a discount to world prices as many of you alledge, would that not be an advantage to processing on the prairies?

If Pasta was such a good business opportunity for farmers in Canada, why didn't you invest in North Dakota or any where else in the US where you could buy open market durum? Durum is durum doesn't matter whether it is grown on your farm or not.

Multinationals don't choose business locations for sentimental reasons.

[TOM4CWB]

ChuckChuck,

It is sooo clear that the CWB has been DUMPING wheat into the US... CWB VP of sales Flaten didn't tip the CWB's hand on Durum with specifics.

There is no real need for the multinationals to manage the CWB differently from what is happening today.


1.)The CWB stores our grain on my farm the vast majority of the time... at zero cost to the buyer...

2.)The commercial grain grower carries the risk... we commercial growers pay the interest and risk management costs on the growers grain inventory... for the Multinationals... (the CWB proves so duty bound to protect)

3.) The CWB forces on grain growers discounts and prices on our grades of grain that are truly disturbing and unfair;
Like the $70/t buyback required right now on 1CWRS13.5. Almost exactly the value paid now in Montana over Alberta CWB prices.

Your words are hollow and a drone hummm Chuckchuck. The premium you claim at the CWB... instead is a discount taken off growers; paid forcefully to the very folks (multinationals) you claim we need protection from.

What a scam you lead.

And the worst is; we know,
you know better.

Is it just the thrill of the power you have to chain us down... or are you being paid well for this Chuck???

[Burbert]

Integ actually has a point. Makin pasta,
makes no sense, causin it is an aboundint
product already in stores. Comedian pasta
will be like Comedian pancake mix, taste
funny and doesn't sell. Ask the Huts,
their Comedian coyotie brand is AWFUL.

[TOM4CWB]

Burbert,

There are some GREAT food products made right here in Alberta!

We make our own Pancake mix... and share it at grower field days etc.

SunnyBoy is a great product avaliable at local grocery stores!

http://sunnyboyfoods.com

So much more could be done since we can make great products with the best quality grains grown right at home!

NOW, Our only limitations are; hard work and good management!

Kinnikinnik Foods is a great example:

"Kinnikinnick Named One of Canada's Top Ten Food Companies We're pleased to announce that Canada's nationally distributed newpaper, The Globe and Mail has chosen Kinnikinnick as one of Canada's Top Ten Food Companies."

http://consumer.kinnikinnick.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/consumer.home.html


Our Imagination (or lack there of) is the only limitation!

Cheers!