Canadian Western Brokerage

[Burbert]

Yup theys all jumpin on board this one,
gonna help Comedian farmers, fer free.
The railroads is gonna lower freight
rates 2. No I heard the buyer is gonna
pay the freight from now on. Santa and
the tooth fairies are gonna be more
generous than ever. On a positive note,
more points on the old gold card, cousin
wes gonna be spendin a lot more to frame
in future here in Comedia. Win/win,
situation. RITZ fer President in
2012!!!!!

[katoe]

cargil own terminal space at west coast.

[jensend]

my thought was that if cargill runs the pool do you really think their administration costs will be any less than the cwb? if you see them as your friend look across the fence and see how they treated canadian cattlemen back in 2003 with the phony bse crisis. this pooling move is just a way for them to gain a greater market share, bankrupt the famrer owned terminals and become more of a price maker.

[charliep]

What is Cargill's share of grain handle in western Canada? a) 5 % b) 10 % c) 20 % d) 40 %.

Cargill does not have ownership of terminal capacity in Vancouver. True or False.

[charliep]

A question that I am being asked to grapple with for some of the stuff I do.

What market share will the CWB have in the 2012/13 crop year?

a) less than 10 %.

b) 10 to 20 %.

c) 20 to 40 %

d) 40 to 60 %.

e) More than 60 %

If the CWB were to gain a significant portion of the wheat via producer
contracts and make a significant volume of sales to export/domestic
customers, then I suspect they will have a long and benefiticial life. Never
understood why some people are the biggest CWB supporters but they will
be the first ones not to use CWB services in the new world. Maybe the
theme of this thread is a way to go. Add value to stakeholder businesses
and they will come.

[FarmRanger]

Won't they have a 62% of wheat and 51% of barley?

yeah, right.

[wilagro]

Yes hurry, hurry before the court challenge upsets the applecart...and WE can't have that now can we. Ritz the cracker would go apoplectic if that happened.

[checking]

How can you place "hurry" in the same sentence, even once, with the CWB?

[cottonpicken]

Sorry for the rant,caught myself giving a shit.

[jensend]

for some it's so much easier to fall back to pissing about the past than to actually look to the future. the cwb will no longer be a monopoly so get over the cwb. what are the challenges and opportunities for the future and how do you take advantage of the opportunities while neutralizing the challenges? if a grain company sets up a pool i don't think they're going to do it to enrich any producers; it will be a profit centre for them and producers had better be willing to do the legwork and read the fine print. if grain prices drop it won't matter who is to blame. the question is will you have the capital to execute a marketing strategy that works under those conditions? save the cwb bitching for the local coffee shop - it's more amusing there.

[bucket]

jensend

you said "if a grain company sets up a pool i don't think they're going to do it to enrich any producers"

Do you actually believe the cwb did anything to enrich any producers?

Making them wait for a final payment isn't enriching anyone is it?

[jensend]

bucket get over the cwb and look forwards. if you think every option will be better than the past you might get a surprise. it's pretty easy to market when canola is at $550. do you remember $220? the fact that there was no wheat board in your way didn't make canola profitable then did it? to think the cwb is the only impediment to riches is to deny reality. does your marketing plan take into account the possibility that the ethanol mandate may become unaffordable over the next couple of years? how much would that take out of the price of every bushel of grain grown in north america? the cwb is gone now it's time to look ahead. if the grain markets stay weak would it make more sense to commit any inventories to the board now than to hold them until next august? maybe it would be the lesser evil.i guess it depends on what kind of contracts are offered after the legislation is enacted. i find those topics more interesting than the moaning about how much suffering has gone on under the board.

[johnsmith]

cottonpicken, No I don't think about this shit and the theory, who cares.
My main concern as a grower is growing as much grain as possible, dropping it in a pit that is a reasonable distance from my farm and making sure the cheque is not a rubber ball. I do have some concern if the business that is being done out of the CWB building does a belly flop, that my Pinko Commy Lefties ****s NDP manitoba gov't will get the building and the computer system for a song and will drag Manitoba farmers back to the dark ages, then it will be all corn/oats for me.

[BTOfarmallll]

Oh wauchope is just in a Bad Mood, Seein as he got F*** All fer a Crop This Year in Saswampkin. Was through his Home Town yesterday. F*** Me Talk about Swamp Land. How kin yous farm That Shit. Yous could pay me $2000 an acre, pay all my inputs and price My Canola @ $12 And I still wouldn't Farm That Shit!!!!! I see alotta Sob's didn't work their land, AGAIN. Wet Spring, gonna be alotta Whinning & Sniveling, Should all be Cow Pasture Anyway............

[wilagro]

BTOfarmallll: LOL...great post. Gawd, I love this forum sometimes.