News Release: CWB Begins To Market Canola.

[TOM4CWB]

I was trying to convince my better half to let me sell them a load of Canola... for some reason she won't let me!

Something about letting someone else (CWB Lovers/Supporters) try it first!

Oh well... I tried... maybe I will sneak a load out when she isn't watching...

[bobofthenorth]

Where are all those diehards who have been trying for years to get canola under the board? I just talked to a rabid board supporter who had recently sold 6 trains of new crop canola. I asked him why he hadn't sold it to the board and he changed the subject. Funny how that works.

[wilagro]

bobofthenorth: Perhaps it was because of the fact that the new CWB is really the CONservative Wheat Board and not the old entity that it once was.

The new BOD are Ritz Crackerettes.
Ahahahahahahahaahhhahahhaha

[malleefarmer]

wilargro thats put your hand up for cwb
board
darn i pad
and im not being a smart arse

[gregpet]

Wilagro isn't having the choice to use the CWB great. Same people working there as before and just remember it was always govt controlled so it is a weak argument not to use the CWB now.

[wilagro]

malleefarmer: I pretty well knew what you meant...no problem.

[bobofthenorth]

I'm astounded. The super traders are still there. I thought you boardies would be lining up to let them sell your canola. Or are those genius traders only genius when there's nothing to compare them to?

[wilagro]

The present CWB is just trodding water
until Ritz and Co. sell it off to the
highest bidder. When it is sold the
Harper Government will receive any and
all profits. Why would I or any other
farmer want to be a pawn in this GAME?
After all it just for show during the
"adjustment" to MARKET FREEDOM.
Any actions undertaken by the CWB now
will be viewed by most marketers as
"window dressing" to prove that the
Harper Government was right in their
decision to change the system.

The Harper Government would like us to
believe that this is dual-marketing...it
is NOT...it is a farcical facsimile of
dual-marketing. Anybody who can't see
this is willfully ignorant of the facts.

[Fransisco]

Funny how the diehard board fanatics story changes from "pooling is the greatest" and the "majority of farmers love this" to "I'll never use it just because its now voluntary".

No, the crazy 8 are no longer figure heads at the top. That is true. But so what? Its not like they brought any marketing expertise to the table. All they did was collect fat pay checks and go around the countryside thumping their chests and saying , " the single desk forever". Heck they didn't even have a clue how their own PPO's worked.

You can be a suck for as long as you want Willagro but the truth is that if it doesn't work now as a voluntary entity then farmers never really wanted it in the first place. And that all of those surveys that supposedly said otherwise were just a bunch of smoke being blown up our collective butts.

[TOM4CWB]

Franny,

I too do not get it.

Before... every time the prices dropped... the CWB dropped the pool return like a rock.... and seldom did the pool rise half as fast as the market rose.

I do not understand why the CWB 'pool' does not include puts and calls with the final payment more certain and the risk reduced. I would be MUCH more interested in that option than a simple average.