What else are you going to grow from Canola Buyer

[SASKFARMER3]

Peas prime example was last year line companies buy peas price nose dives throughout all harvest even if their is a shortage do to poor crops. Farmers that could hold on are finally getting a fair price now. But in fall if a proper reporting system would have shown piss poor peas then the price would have been higher then.
Lots of problems in Canada Lots of problems.

[bucket]

Sf3

Just had that conversation with someone at statscan. Until they become a somewhat forward thinking organization using after harvest data to confirm - we are ****ed.

All the agrologists out there and no one could make a statement that the pea crop was pooched. They could have said it in June.

[furrowtickler]

The big 4 got their wish , tie up as many big producers as possible from soup to their nuts and they basicaly got free grain. Last years poor rail movement was the icing on the cake cause they finaly have their boot on the throats of enough producers to supply their basic grain movement without having to actualy go buy a single kernel of grain , and charge the shit out them on inputs b/c they have no other option if they wish to move grain.
I would think the big 4 made far more money per acre than most of the actual producers , and they will fight to keep it that way until as was said more farmers break free from their strangle hold and get some independence back in their own hands.
Farmers did this to themselves in the almighty quest for massive expansion and the desperate need for more and constant credit
It will sort itself out but not before many go upside down in the quest for more dirt.
I could be wrong but this set has been in the works for years and 2014 was the straw that broke the camels back . IMO , this is why there was not a peep from any line company last year about poor rail service - they sat quietly in the shadows knowing full well outcome, making fortunes in basis levels and grade manipulation.
Everyone needs to make a buck if Ag is going to succeed but ......

[binthere]

for a good read try merchants of grain by dan morgan. the boys who went to great lengths for freedom of grain marketing including going to jail prevailed. now are you going to do something more to help yourselves or keep bending over for the status quo.

[GALAXIE500]

I would also read "Canada's Great Grain Robbery", and Jailhouse Justice " by Dan baron. Both books are excellent reading. You can get them on amazon.ca

[SASKFARMER3]

Read the great grain robbery!

[farmaholic]

Too bad history has repeated itself. Grain marketing for Producer's has made a full three sixty.....

[sawfly]

furrow that is exactly what happened last winter.
if we are all for open markets then they
have to be able function.
we had total market dysfunction
and the resulting exploitation.

while we want to blame the railways and the grain companies.
they only did what any business corporation is supposed to do , make money . boy did they ever.

the fault lies squarely with the federal govt.

it is their job to make sure the country's exports can get to markets.

Harper govt. s hands off business
attitude is insane here.

it's a transportation monopoly .
and it regularly fails to deliver.

where is their head in this.
standing idle , while the primary producers are being scalped by middle men. with no end in sight.

send Harper back to economics class.
to read about monopolies
a ten dollar fine will not fix this.

you know Germany , like they have virtually nothing for resources.
yet do quite well. Why?

because they plan and they manage .

not here , we just do what the big company's tell us.

and Harper said " we don't want to interfere" "we would like a market solution"

it is a captive market and monopoly dipshit

THERE IS NO MARKET SOLUTION

good thing we are such a rich country , with this guy in charge we are gonna need it all.