Cash Flow

[cottonpicken]

Not sure if this is an original thought or if i'm
plagerizing(sp).

It seems to me that if a farm is growing several
different crops and the lifeblood(cash flow) has
fallen on the shoulders of non board gains which
makes up whatever of a percent of the farm and
now with our current paradigm change of cereal
grains picking up the slack,we should see imo a big
shift away from taking low bids in pulse and oilseed
markets.

A massive drop in pulse and oilseed acres would be
AWSOME for us.

[gregpet]

I think this is what John DePape has been telling us for years.

[freewheat]

Exactly. Whereas we used to have to wait
and ship 20 % of our wheat crop at a time,
rececve 60% of the expected price, at a
time not of our choosing, there should be
less fall pressure to sell and dump canola
to pay bills for example.

[farmaholic]

IMHO, I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for a big enough price increase in cereals(CWAD maybe but not CWRS) to switch many acres out of specialty crops. We may have marketing freedom but the anticipated/perceived price increase won't rival special crop returns. One bonus will be we get paid the full price upon delivery and not over a year later. I don't think post Board prices will be dramatically better than pre Board.

[cottonpicken]

Not as much a price increase as a cash flow thing.

Some things like lentils are as fun as sniffing farts
to grow,and seeing as we are large in the market a
roll over in production would be nothing but
winning.

And timing,timing,timing when to sell is now in our
hands which is the greatest thing to come out of
this.

Many will be "steam rolled"for the lack of a better
word,but eh my forefathers never homesteaded on
heavy land so the field is more level.

[farmaholic]

You're right, can't argue with unrestricted delivery(if space permits) and full payment.

[mustardman]

Not to rain on the parade but our two railroads will now have to get the lead out if Everybody Wants to Move all grain in Oct- December. That's not going to happen.
And WITHOUT regulated Port Access like Australia put in we could have some Transportation Nightmares getting the Right grain to port on time.

[Hopperbin]

Why not CWRS? The world has been subsidized to grow the higher yielding other types which gives us the advantage. We have been underpaid for the last 70 odd years. Plant all CWRS and wait till Feb Mar to price.

[Hopperbin]

Your such a worry wort Mustard

[mustardman]

Dr. Richard Gray gave a seminar at U of S thru Farm leadership Council (happened on Nov. 30) I listened to it yesterday and he thinks transportation and port access are THE main potential trouble spots.

[cottonpicken]

Mustard,not our problem,contracts will be signed
before,hopefully its better than signing contracts
with"mustard" companies that are 2 years late in
picking up product.(man if only we had a pool of
money for in house lawyers,did that ethanol plant get
built?and what did happen to that money?)

[farmaholic]

Hopperbin: I hope you are right, I would love to eat crow on my prediction. Eat it often enough and it's not too bad!!

Mustard: You too bring up a good point. Could be a bottle neck. I would like to see open running rights in Canada, would smarten up the railroad cartel. Maybe new doors will open.