Where are the new CWB programs

[bucket]

burbert

They were given the chance to prove themselves and their rhetoric and they have failed.

They have the rail cars for negotiating, they have the producer loading sites as a handler, they have mission terminal for an eastern port, and I think there may be a terminal still for sale in Vancouver. They have all the pieces to make something work, they have chosen not to.

[wilagro]

Ask Gerry Ritz as to why the CWB is "holding back".

I believe that he is under orders and Burbert is right...his daily mantra is:
THE CURRENT CWB is meant to FAIL.
THE CURRENT CWB is meant to FAIL.
THE CURRENT CWB is meant to FAIL.
THE CURRENT CWB is meant to FAIL.
THE CURRENT CWB is meant to FAIL.

If I'm not mistaken I believe Ritz said before the CWB was shorn of its powers...the government owned CWB should NOT compete with the privately run grain industry...or words to that effect.

[bucket]

wilagro

Do you really believe people at the cwb want to see this fail?

It has been said there are very capable people at the cwb to put the right programs in place for farmers that want to use them.

I haven't signed any new crop wheat or durum contracts because I think the cwb has/or should have some very good programs in place soon. But I won't continue to wait for them either.

Competetion is good and its not in anyone's best interest to have the cwb become extinct.

It seems the cwb supporters are selling themselves and the cwb short.

Even Mr. Oberg's battle river railway has new crop pricing out.

[bucket]

As cotton has eluded to many times the cwb could become more than it already is.

Maybe they could buy a few boatloads of fertilizer and use the empty railcars from Vancouver to get it to the prairies. Creates a new industry cleaning out railcars prior to reload. Better yet cut a deal with Canpotex to bring urea back in them empty potash cars. That would smarten up an industry up pretty quick.

There are tonnes of possiblities for the cwb with their knowledge in freight logistics world wide.

I just hate it when people and companies sell themselves short of their potential.

[bucket]

duhhhh, wait a minute, duhhh. Stubble said I was stupid, so uhhh, I guess thinking outside the box, uhhh, tupid me.

Me big dummy, forget all my posts, take stubble and burbert's comments as genius.

[charliep]

No new program announcements at Grain World.
Thursday?

[grower99]

Let us see. The CWB is now an arm of the Feds so why do we not ask our Min of Ag what is going on. We cannot bash Oberg... anymore.

[charliep]

I note the following from today's CWB press release (likely answers the origninal question in this thread).

1-800# hours for March 1
The CWB's Farm Business Team will not be available from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. CT (Winnipeg time) on March 1 due to a corporate meeting. The team will be available from 1 to 5 p.m. CT on that day.
Regular hours will resume March 2:

[Choice2U]

Minister Ritz just gave us choice. He also eliminated directors that stopped management from developing programs in a voluntary environment. It took him a lot longer to get this done than he had hoped given that the August 1, 2012 deadline was the target. He has no intention of running the CWB nor any responsibility to run it. His job of making the board voluntary is done so now its time for the board to buckle down and get it done. The new board has only had 2 1/2 months (including Christmas holidays when many staff would be gone) to develop something that has not been done by this institution in 70 years....Oberg et.al screwed around for so long that farmer decisions are being made now without knowing the CWB plans....the Crazy 8 have forced this tight time frame on the new CWB because of their continued fight and court cases.

[bucket]

But management at the cwb are still suppose to look at and develop a Plan B,C or even D if required.

Whether Oberg had his hand in it or not is immaterial, someone should have had a plan for new programs.

They had a daily price contract a few years back, they could have tweeked it and rolled it out as a start.