Share it Maybe...?

[TOM4CWB]

Wilagro and Burbert et. el;

Before Marketing Freedom you say you were 'Cooperative' ... the CWB was working together with marketing our wheat... our 'Cookies' so to speak.

NOW YOU want to take all your Cookies; and go home.

CWB Pools...were then the best marketing risk management... an averaged price.

Now proof at our farm gate; prices paid track Portland (PNW) wheat prices... the old CWB said were too high and fictious.

We can actually Cooperate...now; and share our risk...in a pool: YOU WON"T.

A song just for you...

'Share it Maybe

[TOM4CWB]

Willy and Burbert,

An interesting look at Pooling!

[wilagro]

Tom: Someday you'll probably progress past the Sesame Street TV shows...at least we can only hope.

CBC Newsworld might be a step upward.

[wilagro]

Tom: Pools were not just an "averaged price"...there's more to Pools than just average price. You 'should' know that by now.

Google for an explanation...I don't have time to educate you at the moment...am too busy cutting grass. All this damned rain...just finish mowing the lawn and it's time to start all over again.

[bucket]

Oh oh! The mantra has changed. Now there is more to the pools than just an average price. Its called the shittiest price.

Your right it was more than average price. It was about blending off shitty grain from up north or Manitoba. Or ensuring than Manitoba farmers got their grain out when it was wet, meanwhile saskatchewan farmers were expected to wait for muddy soft roads. Or Roddy and stewie making sweetheart deals for the marketing of their "organic" grain. It was about hiding a 250 million trading loss from a rogue manager. It was about hiding the fact they paid premiums for the churchill program and then ended up railing the grain back to a useable winter port. etc etc

The insanity of an archaic institution,

[TOM4CWB]

Bucket,

Like CBC... the $1.---Billion taking of our money each year... For what? BNN and Sun provide much more info... at no cost to the Canadian Taxpayer.

Thanks for reminder

AND a Good camparison...Willy... The CBC is about as productive and helpful as the old CWB 'single desk' was!

[wd9]

Wilagro, its not that you can't educate,
its because you just can't. Even though
you have been asked time after time after
time after time, you don't.

So what the hell, tell me how the pool is
more and or better than just average.
Mathematically it is impossible, but i'm
sure we are willing to read how.

[wilagro]

wd9: The AB Ag site has the answers for you regarding "pooling" of grain.

http://www1.agric.gov.ab.ca/$department/deptdocs.nsf/all/sis11760

Charlie Pearson I believe was responsible for helping place this most excellent article on the AB government site.

As it says..."A pooled price is not a simple average of the revenue generated from the sale of a specific grade over the course of a crop year."

[sumdumguy]

If they had been transparent and audited, It may
have been believable, but the idea of robbing one
pool to pad another under a veil of secracy is
suspect at best.

[TOM4CWB]

Wilagro,

The CWB pools as set up... are for the many grades... AND the many classes of wheat... with the CWB's adjustments to make the price an average 'Fair' price for all of the pool participants. For instance the #3 14px CWRS at one time during the year... could return more actual cash than #1 14.5. Yet the grower of the higher grade will get the higher price...

As the basis was determined by the initial price... which is an averaging mechanism and not the daily basis of what was actually paid... These CWB prices have a very poor record of tracking actual prices... instead far below market values.

I do not see Ontario Wheat doing prices this way... why have we done this all these years?

Cheers!