Perfect competition

[ado089]

I only deal with grain companies when it's a matter if convenience. This year had the mill I dealwuth say to me that I had the best wheat they'd seen last year but they couldn't deal with me due to unreliable rail service. We need contracts that work for farmers and buyers. We need rail transportation reform. Revenue cap overages need to be out toward infrastructure improvement.

I just find it awfully rich that the reason so many were up in arms to get get rid of the CWB was because they stood between us and world prices. Yet here we are three years later and we are as far away from world prices as ever. Prairie to port price or equivalent delivery points in the US is the benchmark we should be working from, not patting our self on the back if we think we sold for a buck a bushel better than the neighbor.

[riders2010]

Come on the premise was get rid of cwb the grain cos are honest. Fk that plain and simply hosing the shit out of all of us and if we had half a brain as a whole sector we d tell them to f right off but the is no competition anywhere they have us hooked into everything inputs and selling the grain. It's only going to get worse because they are picking which farmers or corporate farms they want to succeed. Speaking if inputs where is the competition when the private and large input dealerships all have agreements not to go into other ones areas to do business. We ve gone so far in this private is great world here that we re just about around the bend to the same thing Russia is only different types of groups control us and the farmers there.

[riders2010]

Come on the premise was get rid of cwb the grain cos are honest. Fk that plain and simply hosing the shit out of all of us and if we had half a brain as a whole sector we d tell them to f right off but the is no competition anywhere they have us hooked into everything inputs and selling the grain. It's only going to get worse because they are picking which farmers or corporate farms they want to succeed. Speaking if inputs where is the competition when the private and large input dealerships all have agreements not to go into other ones areas to do business. We ve gone so far in this private is great world here that we re just about around the bend to the same thing Russia is only different types of groups control us and the farmers there.

[farmaholic]

If I could avoid selling a kernel to those ****ing Prairie Pirates I would. The railway may have opened the door for the creation of the problem but I think the Pirates will use it for their benefit and will leave it wide open until, like someone on here said, a short crop forces them to compete for business, until then, lube up.

So if you're an ass kisser and have a good "relationship" with the Pirates they will cater to you.
But if you stand up to them and their marketing scams and call them on grading issues you get branded hard to deal with. The only difference in the wheat, durum and export barley market between now and CWB tenure is who you call Master.

Genuflect, bow your head, remove your hat and hold it against your chest, with sample in hand extend it upwards to your Pirate "Friend" and ask him what he'll give you for it. Both grade AND price. Oh, the new mantra is grade doesn't matter only the net price. Quality doesnt mean anything anymore. Do the Pirates sell based on quality. Send the enduser some #3 12px instead of the #1 13.5 px they specified, tell them it doesn't matter.

What a bunch of disrespectful Assholes....

[TOM4CWB]

Ahhh... the market gurus have spoken.

I will take what we have today, marketing and risk management; as a blessing. We put reasonable targets on the table. Competition bought the grain we needed to sell this fall.

We have a great crop coming. And the cash flow to match our needs to make a farm work.

No excuses... personal responsibility as usual is needed.

[riders2010]

Who competed for your grain? Hahahaa
Describe to us how those grain cos fought it out for your grain. Sounds so exciting. Was it it a teleconference where you sat back and waited for the high bid. Hahaha too funny

[ado089]

Tom, what's the difference between the CWB paying you $3 less than market or Cargill?

You guys who think that everything is perfect now are as bone headed as the guys that refused to let go of the CWB.

[bucket]

Target pricing just means the graincos don't compete for grain on the market.

When they have an order to fill, they just go pick up the targets and call them contracts.

Its really no different than when the CWB was in place.

[stonepicker]

Wheat was still a very good price last fall ( after harvest ) and i got paid for 100% of it on the spot. It seems the only people who think they're getting screwed by thegrain co's are the ones who were riding on the boat called missed opportunity! Go farm in Zimbabawae, things aren't so bad in western canada.