Old way of marketing?

[redbaron]

I see some groups are really resorting to some old
fashion methods. Does nothing change.

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/1332885
68.html

Looking at the pile of grain and what it is worth in
the article. I suspect they are using CWB prices. On
world market it would be worth a heck of a lot
more. What a total waste.

[fjlip]

Link does not work.

[parsley]

Try cut and paste
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/1332885
68.html

[charliep]

Is this the article?

[URL="http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/business/agriculture/grain-dumped-at-manitoba-mps-office-in-wheat-board-protest-133260783.html"]grain dump[/URL]

[parsley]

redbaron, they probably imported high priced
American wheat to dump so they could claim the
price was a legitimate price. Pars

[wd9]

I'm not from MB but Merv is a pretty great guy to go have a beer with in Ottawa. He truly cares about ag and farmers does not deserve being treated that way by an uninformed and wreckless CWB supporter. shame on them!

[Integrity_Farmer]

On the world market it would a heck of a lot more?

LOL. Are you stupid, don't you see that the CWB is selling at world prices or higher?

Then how do you get it there smart guy? You put it on a train and send it to port, which costs money, but not near as much as it would cost you in the United States.

I heard one moron on the radio saying that freight will be less without the CWB, because they will go thru Seattle port and they can by-pass the Rockies.

LOL.

They should not allow comedy on the radio like that it is dangerous when operating heavy machinery.

[bucket]

I_F

So the canadian transport system is a lower cost and the cwb is selling for more. Why are farm gate prices higher in Canada?

If I was a farmer in the US with 100 tonnes of wheat, I could be sold and paid. In Canada I would only be able to deliver 50 tonnes and get under 50 percent of my money, therefore, only generating 25 percent of my wheat cash flow.

If all things being equal, this means on 8 dollar per bushel wheat, western canadian farmers can only generate 2.00 per bushel on their wheat. This forces them to sell other commodities to pay bills and driving the price down.

[bucket]

Mistake on my last post should read:


Why are farm gate prices NOT higher in Canada?

[gregpet]

" Are you stupid, don't you see that the CWB is
selling at world prices or higher?"

No we can't see this, that's the proof we have been
asking for but none is ever provided. Would you
care to provide proof of premium prices since
there is a lot of proof that the open market out
performs the CWB consistently.

Remeber actual proof with documented actual
prices, not just saying the CWB does sell at a
premium, OK I_F.

[redbaron]

sorry the address does not work. I will try again.
The Winnipeg Free Press has a picture of the pile of
grain. So that is where I got the note. The figure
used is $300. Too me the pile looks like about 150
- 200 plus bushels. So my reason for worth much
more.

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/1332885
68.html

Hope this one might work.

[Integrity_Farmer]

[URL="http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/133288568.html"]http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/133288568.html [/URL]

You don't need to push enter when the text goes to the edge of the box, thats why the link didn't work because there was spaces in the link.

[gregpet]

Still no actual, verifiable proof I_F?

[blackpowder]

In response to the farmer protest, Tweed sent a letter to Oberg, requesting legal amnesty for the people responsible for disposing of the grain in front of his office.

"I certainly wouldn't want to sell it," Tweed said, noting it would be illegal for him to do so.



Once again truth is funnier than fiction.

[parsley]

Dear I_F
My observation has been that ever since the
CWB began marketing organic wheat, Ms
Organic Marketing Department Failuret must
have initially adopted the 'lowest price is the law'
single desk policy. 

The wheat board stole the names of the organic
buyers, undercut hard-working organic farmers,
pushed the buyback high enough to eliminate the
organic farmers with established contracts, and
then raced for the lowest selling price. 

And did all of it secretly, selectively, cockily, and
paid for it with farmers money. 

And the CWB has become infamous, and now
have to live  with exactly what they earned:
1.  Farmer contempt
2.  Farmer distrust
3.. Buyer distrust (many organic buyers openly
wrote the CWB saying they wanted to buy directly
from farmers, not the CWB.)
4.  Bloated bureaucracy lolling  about the
countryside trying to justify their jobs.  (But
forever trying " to get  up to speed" )
5.  A foreign CEO 
6. Unions galore stickhandling  the CWB behind
the scenes
7.  A 70 year old institution deteriorated into a
entity of ridiculousness
8. Departments stuffed  with incompetent people
soon  looking for a job. 
9. Farmers pitted one against the other through
CWB tactics 
10. A legacy of constipated
Innovation hovering above agriculture.
11. The castration of decency in a Canadian
institution. (Surely Nettie Weibe, Ralph Goodale,
Pat Martin, Wayne Easter and the Grade Eight
CWB directors are the last
of the  fanatics who advocate and defend jailing
farmers who sell their own wheat.). It's indecent. 
12.  The CWB has picked winners and losers
arbitrarily  Warburtons  approved vs Sask pasta
plant denied. 

Even if single dealers glue another $0.50 per
bushel on your estimated glorious CWB earnings
the past ten years, the negative costs and
community loss of having a single CWB desk is
incalculable. 

Thats what single deskers own.  
Live with it.