Parsley - How Are The Organic Buyers Acting Post CWB?

[monte]

I was wondering how everything was working for you with out the help of the CWB?

[parsley]

Some of the organic growers grew wheat in the
spring in anticipation of no-buyback marketing. I
saw one crop last week up an hour north of us,
Monti.
It will revive growers who lost their markets to
CWB marketing Dept. who called the buyers and
undercut all other sellers since they had access
to both name of the buyer and price being paid.

Regulations decimated farmers so they switched
to alternate crops.

I'll guess more HRS wheat will be grown next
year. And barley. It will take awhile to get buyers
back. I recall one US buyer who angrily called
us b/c the CWB has phoned him, knowing he
was a buyer and asking if he would buy from
them. He was not impressed and asked how did
they know he was a buyer, b/c he had never
contacted them.

Some of the CWB's ex-staff should write a book
on how not to do business.

On a lighter note, Parsley had fresh apple pie
with vanilla ice cream for breakfast yesterday
morning, and white layer cake with Carmel icing
and Chantilly filling for breakfast this morning.
Nothing like a hardy conventional breakfast
during harvest. Pars

[hobbyfrmr]

Feed barley market is back to very respectable prices, without the buyback. I sell into the US when profitable. I am really pumped to get the stuff harvested, thistles and all! I just finished planting hard red winter wheat for the next season. I think there will be a lag time for wheat. I find the milling wheats were slow movers,and of course the game of #1, #2, #3 and protien values. I get my wheat lab tested for protein and falling number and sell on those values. I will sell for feed wheat if the price shows me respectable profit. My job is to grow it, and sell for profit, not store it for organic elevators while I starve for cash flow.
My best guess, I will keep about $5500.00 in CWB buyback/export licence fees this year.
There are also solid buyers of organic grains in Canada, when their price is competitive the grain stays in Canada. If you are new to organic, DO A CREDIT CHECK ON YOUR BUYERS.
Think about it, farmer "saves" his $250.00 credit check, delivers 2 supers of feed barley and gets burned for $27,000. This does not have to happen!

[Burbert]

Yup yas is totally on yer own now. Enjoy,
butt beware of the fraudsters and creepies
that'll soon be surfacing cousin they kin
turn a buck on gullible framers, orgasmic
er not.........

[parsley]

Ask for portion/or all money up front. Pars

[wilagro]

Tom: Perhaps you would get even more excited if you were to investigate as to how much of Alberta's natural gas is being WASTED in the extraction of bitumen from the oilsands in Alberta.
They are using up huge amounts of OUR gas for converting goo to oil which they want to export to the USA and China.
Nobody blinks an eyelash over this tremendous waste of OUR resources but if it wasn't for this waste these companies would not be making the profits they make. These companies are getting natural gas for practically NOTHING.

[TOM4CWB]

Wilagro,

We are VERY blessed to have these resourses. It is great to see they can be helping humanity to better feed the world and promote peace.

[monte]

Thanks Pars,

Good luck building back the business.

Sounds like a pretty tasty menu.

Take care and have a safe harvest.

Monte

[parsley]

Something you should know about organics,
Monte:
Organics was founded on farmers selling directly
to suppliers. They worked in tandem from Day
One with falling numbers and protein levels to
supply millers. Common for both to speak with
each other. Often. Nobody truly organic wanted
government taking over the transaction, and thn
calling it adding value, except lefties, who it
seems, would invite a quota for their orgasms.

Most buyers will be pleased to have eliminated
the middlemen, who became the overnight
experts sometimes unable to differentiate one
crop from another. Pars

[Burbert]

Albertie is filled with numb nuts, *****
willing to do anything, wreck anything,
horn swaggale whomever, whatever ta make a
buck! God please fergive Albertans for
they no knot what theys doin.......

[sumdumguy]

Hey Pars,

I can just taste that pie. Every make grasshopper
pie? Problem, there's a shortage of
grasshoppers this year. Gotta eat veggies.
Gardens are hot. Squash all over the place.

Bet your beans are great this year?

[ColevilleH2S]

Wilagro that "wasted" gas is paying for my parents
pension funds, providing employment for my
nephew, and making the raw material for the diesel
in my combine. I would hardly call it wasted.

[hobbyfrmr]

On the other side of the coin, a 4000 acre organic
farm has sprayed all their black dirt this summer.
I can only guess that there will be pretty yellow
flowers in that ground next season!
Thats approx. 120,000 bushels of organic oats
and 50,000 bushels of organic barley that have
left the building not to be seen again!

[wilagro]

ColevilleH2S: Unless WE as Albertans receive a proper return for the exploitation of OUR resources then these corporations are being SUBSIDIZED. This is CORPORATE WELFARE and should not be tolerated.

If they need HEAT for extraction of the bitumen then perhaps they should use an alternate source such as atomic energy.

In my mind the use of huge quantities of natural gas in the extraction of bitumen is absolutely unforgivable. It is too precious a resource to waste.

[ColevilleH2S]

But wouldn't they then be "wasting" Uranium? I don't get the difference.