CWB

[cottonpicken]

Am i the only one who sees the gigantic opportunity of a life time
for the cwb morphing into a monstrous brokerage house?

Seriously?10,000 ****in posts(get back in the bottle hyde) and
nobody sees this?

Seriously?

And wheat is a globally traded commodity who's price has little
relation to whats going on in our neck of the woods?

[bucket]

Technically, if they are as good as they say they are, cotton you are right.

Unfortunately, Oberg will destroy that opportunity as well.

[Hopperbin]

I believe talk like that gets voted down.

[Hopperbin]

In a way my ex wife did me a favour by forcing me to think outside her box.
To the ladies on here please just laugh.

[Jay-mo]

You're speaking "eskimo"....

[bucket]

Careful Jaymo, some of those NDP and liberal types might think you are making a racist slur. They will find you.

That's what happens when people don't understand the issue.

[cottonpicken]

Lol,thats a good one Hopper.

The cwb is already basically a brokerage firm.

Instead of going home and crying to mommy,they
need to retool and expand into everything from
insurance to mortgages to specialty crops.

They have huge resources at their disposal right
now.

A staff,infrastructure and client base.

Am i seriously the only one that sees this?

[gregpet]

No, the CWB supporters are the only ones that do
not realize the opportunity they have in front of
them.

[agstar77]

Run by whom? Government crown corporation? Original purpose to give grain growers a say in how grain is marketed. Now you want it to be a Private corporation controlled by the Government! This makes no sense. Either it stays in farmers hands or it's wound down.

[Fransisco]

No cotton you're not the only one to see this. Lots of people have the same or similar ideas. There is all sorts of opportunity here but unfortunately the crazy 8 only see two options, the status quo or scorched earth.

[Hopperbin]

Cotton it is impossible, the CWB would become what they hate. Their life blood is their view that farmers must be helpless sheep. To put them in a position of power and wealth would go against their ideology.

[Hopperbin]

I have nothing against putting cwb assets up for auction as a whole auction one price for everything, our gov't could put a clause in the sale that the winning buyer must opperate as a grain buyer and use all assets for x number of years cannot sell sell any asset with extra investment demanded also, could even offer special privillages to a max dollar amount that other grain companies do not have that eventually dissappear.
Made into a publicly traded corp with only real farmer investment opportunity for the first 5 years with winning buyer having first option to match any bids. Then after that open to anyone . Oh how I wish to dive back into the ex wife's box.

[Hopperbin]

Not sure how this winning buyer to match farmer bids to work. I just think farmers if they want to should have first option to buy. Maybe durring auction all farmers should be allowed to invest at the auction sale price, after that open to all public.
Anyways this does create and keep a trading entity for our grain and can be viewed as good for Canada.

[Hopperbin]

To clearify winning buyer must offer shares to real farmers for same as their winning bid. Run just the same as any other publicly traded corp. Like cotton says the opportunity here can be big.

[Hopperbin]

Then agstar and willie can shut up about corporate profits going to shareholders, cause they had first chance to match the price. chuck can still bitch but no one listens to him anyway.