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.