Canadian Western Brokerage

[BTOfarmallll]

No problimo Wilbur. Also passed The Cott Ranch at Redversus (Cotton's Place). Lets just say its gonna be a long, LONG Winter over there. Hope he's got all his Safety Tickets, The Patch ain't to far away. Another thing I learned is that Theys ain't like Shovelin Grain in Sascratch&win. Hopper Bottoms Here, Hopper Bottoms There, Everywhere a Hopper Bottoms. Well lets face it, The words Sascratch&win, Farmers, & Work should NEVER be used in The Same Sentence..............

[cottonpicken]

I tend to turn emotional when i fail to explain solutions to problems,which
exasperates the situation.

This is the route to take and satisfy everyones needs.

1 month pools
3 month pools
12 month pools
whatever timeline pools
spott pricing
forward pricing
hedge management
international markets
domestic markets
deposit insurance(ask if this is important to mf clients)
risk insurance
private accountability and transparency
open and unending growth potential
existing infrastructure
existing employee base
existing cliental base
existing vacuum in global brokerage services

[parsley]

A wild idea can buck. Maybe you ought to try a
few bottles of Italian champagne, cott. It'll hobble
you for a night. That's the only way some of the
existing employees could fool you into thinkin
they will undergo a mindset change. Too many
won't & will undermine at every opportunity.

Besides pricey Italian might mellow you a bit.
You could use a bit of taming. Pars

[sumdumguy]

BTO, you are special! Where did you come from!

[btjadenlepp]

I think it's brilliant cp. Will require a lot of work, but would fill a great need. Hope you're in touch with the CWB on it, my sense is they're pretty open to new ideas these days (internally).

[BTOfarmallll]

I'm The F***in Man, Yall don't really get it do Ya. Type of Money everybody actin like Theys know ya. Every day, Every day, F*** what anybody Say, Can't see em' cause The Money in The Way!!!!!!!!!!

[jensend]

i think a cwb brokerage would turn into a money pit. too many political possibilities of govt having to underwrite risk of producers. producers didn't want govt pooling so get it to the private sector and make it work there.

[wauchope]

@ BTOfarmallll you must be a goat farmer from manitoliet and as goats are generally smarter than their owners your posts are an embarrassment to all goats.

[cottonpicken]

Thankyou Brenda.

It would be private,ipo=intial public offering,of shares.

The only thing need from the government would be cdic coverage(crucial).

How the advance system would operate?

If it wasn't government funded,it would have to be through bonds,which should be an easy sell all
things considered.Long term there is problems-whole different topic.

Employees?Its a new ballgame and i think everyone would understand that

Farmers?Can do what ever they want whenever they,this is probably a STICKING point in some's mind.

Brockerages are flexible,they can adapt and give clients what they what-BUYERS AND SELLERS.

They accommodate BUYERS AND SELLERS.

Somebody please help me with analogies.

If a mill in india wants to tender a bid on some durum to make a new stile turban head dress,they
make a phone call-its probably not a farmer,or a shipping company,or an elevator-its probably a
broker.Which provides them with quarantees-money,timeline,quality,etc,etc.And voila product
moves,price is discovered and capitalistic market forces accomplish what everyone wants them to
accomplish.

People need to understand what a brokerage actually is.

From an early post.

A brokerage is a firm that acts as an intermediary between a purchaser and a seller. More
commonly, a brokerage is referred to as a brokerage firm. To broker a deal is to
communicate with both the buyer and seller as to acceptable price on anything sold or
purchased.

A broker, a single person, or the brokerage firm completes any necessary legal paperwork,
obtains the appropriate signatures, and collects money from the purchaser to give to the
seller. Since the buyer and seller are employing the brokerage to complete the deal, the
brokerage may collect a portion of the money obtained. In some cases, a brokerage receives
money from both parties. In others, the brokerage receives a commission only from the
seller.

Brokerage firms are most commonly thought of in relationship to the sale and purchase of
stock shares. Fees are variable, depending on the degree to which the brokerage is involved
in decisions about purchase. Some stockowners give their brokers power of attorney to make
decisions about when to buy or sell stock and depend upon their brokers for researching
new stock for purchase. This type of brokerage firm usually assesses a fairly large fee, and
regardless of whether the owner loses or earns money, the firm is paid.


Other brokerage firms are employed by people who like to do their own research and make
all their own decisions about what and when to buy and sell. These firms have a tendency to
charge per transaction and can be quite reasonable to employ. In the past few years, several
brokerage firms have begun stock trading on the Internet, allowing their clients access to
information that will help them carefully research their decisions. These companies are not a
sound economical choice for clients who do not do adequate research or cannot consistently
read up on their stocks. Extensive involvement by the stockowner is necessary to hopefully
make the best deals.

In other areas of business, brokerage firms may be employed to acquire and sell real estate.
Brokerages exist to acquire art or antiquities. Also, restaurants and other service companies
may use brokerage firms to obtain meat and produce, restaurant supplies, or furniture.
Sometimes, employing a broker in this last sense is not initially expensive to the purchaser,
because the broker receives a fee from the companies used by their clients. However, the
price of merchandise obtained through a broker generally has a mark-up that makes up for
this lack of commission.

Brokerage firms can be helpful because they save their clients, whether buying or selling,
time. Not everyone has time to look at 40 real estate properties before purchasing. Not every
restaurant manager wants to interview a slew of potential food supply companies before
selecting one.

For those who are cost conscious, however, employing a brokerage firm may mean added
expense. Buyers and sellers who come to an arrangement between each other “cut out the
middle man,” and are thus able to save money. On the other hand, employing a reputable
brokerage firm generally means that the firm assumes liability for the seller’s claims. Should
any portion of a sale be conducted illegally, the brokerage firm must often compensate the
purchaser and take legal action against the seller.

-I copy and pasted this to save time and get everyone on the same page as to what i'm
trying to explain.

The people who wanted to pool could still pool,with a few easy tweaks.

People could still use the board and gain a great deal of protective services in this incredible
risky world.

And people who wanted to go it alone,could.

It would could be a more privately functioning entity,to contain government miss
management.

It could expand into anything and everything,the sky the limit,example oil,coal,gold,potash,insurance

A commission of 1% on 5 billion dollars in grain deals is 50 million dollars.

[jensend]

why would it be needed other than to get govt involvement (and money)? there are private brokerage services galore out there. hell people wanted the govt out of grain marketing; now let's do it.

[BTOfarmallll]

LOLing, Thats all yous got???? Oh and its BTOfarmall as in BTO Farm every God Damn Thing!!!!!!!! Someone at Head Office added to ll's to My Handle, Will have to page Dr. Joe Dales about that again, Thanks fer The Reminder..........

[BTOfarmallll]

This is a Scheme a Dream if'n I've ever seen one. I want no part in it. $50 Million???? LOLing, Thats F*** All in Todays world. Not gonna Fly, Especially when yer paying these Idiots in Whinerpeg $150,000 a year to F*** The Dog. Go back to Bed & Scheme some more, By The Looks of er' yer good at that. Hows that fer a Poking Hole Theory?????? Still LOLing..............

[wilagro]

Forget anything and everything that the CWB is or was. If I had my druthers I would scrap the CWB entirely and start from scratch with a farmer owned (New Co-op) style corporation. I would leave the government of Canada out of the equation for the most part other than permission to export grain. The new entity would have NO regulatory powers other than those required for purchasing and transporting of ITS grain.

It would own or rent its own facilities...period. No alliances with any other grain company...period.

It will never happen though as Canadian farmers are too divided to ever come together for the common good. Only in Canada you say...pity!!!

[cottonpicken]

Wilagro,Bto....your just not seeing this.

The price of grain is the price grain,the price of oil
is the price of oil,the price of gold is the price of
gold.

Middle men have been,will be always apart of the
equation.

Fair and equitable management of the realms you
deal with is a two way street.

RE-READ that.

You want the cheapest insurance on the
block,guess what your insurance broker wants the
cheapest groceries on the block

You want the cheapest equipment on the block?
guess what

You r buying a new truck/tractor,guess what?

Two way street,this is what the world is!

[cottonpicken]

Why don't you economic genius's open up a leather or
shoe factory,i hear domestic consumption outstrips
demand LOl,still lol.