Oh Canada! Our Canadian Dollar and Grain!

[Guest]

yes I will buy in also , wasn't it you , sf3 that suggested we all ask for our check off money back ? not sure ,but if it was , it's a hell of a good idea . that money would go a long way to straightening some of this shit out and maybe make some of these leaches sit up and take notice ? no one is speaking out for us , (except maybe larry) , especially our so called farmer groups , apas etc. , or at least I haven't saw where they are

[fjlip]

"We are going backwards.", exactly bucket!
For 55 years this farm used 1.5 miles of gravel and 2.5 miles of highway to haul/market all the production. Now a few pennies makes us wreck the highway all the way to Altona/Harrowby/Yorkton/Tisdale/Saskatoon. A make work project for truckers, extra costs for farmers, great market for used up highway trucks. A huge fuel demand, repairs, and wow those tire sales! NO, highways are NOT free. The cost should have been added to ALL terminal constructions. That would have made the 1200 wooden elevators make economic sense. We had the best system in the world.

[SASKFARMER3]

All I did like you on land but as you get older you realize the system is broken! Yes if I sold out I would never work another day and you could all come visit me in the Cayman islands! Hell I'm buying!

[fjlip]

"Oh yea then when a farmer wanted to buy a old elevator they made you sign that you would never load cars out of it. WTF."...SF3

Is any one out there owning a wooden elevator loading producer cars?
What is the deal with Coop elevator at Engelfeld?

[bucket]

Close to 2 years of these excuses as to why grain is mispriced and not moving.


Yet not a peep.

Give a tax exemption to every concrete to become a 112 car spot. And then force the railways to service them.

Uh someone forgot to explain 50 car spots won't be serviced 15 years after they were built. Worse for those under.

[SASKFARMER3]

Notice something funny its a marketing site that lots of Experts watch and comment on under different names.
Not one is explaining the dollar difference not one.
Its a fricking crock.

[sawfly]

capitalism
they do it because they can.
it's their job
simple.
and we have not done ours

farmers are to blame because we
shirked our responsibility to take care of our business interests.

Fighting amongst ourselves , left , right , board no board.

when we should have been building
our own presence in the industry.

we would not have to replace the whole system, have some presence . we need to be involved from bin to customers doorstep.

from fert plant to farmer, chem . manufacturer in china to the field.

these old boy outfits will compete if we force them to.

remember years ago, N was getting way to high.
and FNA brought a couple of boatloads of Russian 46 into Churchill

the price dropped 80$ tonne . overnight. 2 boatloads saved every farmer in western canada 80$ tonne.

threatening to make our own glyphosate
dropped the price 5$ liter.

FNA going thru the hoops to import generic took off another 4$..

a few invested and all benefited.

farmers are again going to have almost a religious conviction to our own business investments.
i guess we have not been f ed hard enough yet.

whether it be fert. chem. seed or grain. handling.

we will see competition like never before.
they will try and run you out of business, so fast.
the sooner your out , sooner it's game on again for them.

we just have to relearn what our
grandfathers learned 80 -100years ago.

the grain co.s / fert. co.s do not owe us a thing,

if we are foolish enough to believe their lies.
(competing for my grain, my ass)

if we are foolish enough to let them stack the deck against us , thru our govt.
(seed/chem/patent/tariffs)
( govt. fines RRs equaling the losses of a single farmer)
if we can't see that, we are pretty dense.

after all, if they steal too much
we can beg the Canadian taxpayer to bail us out.

[riders2010]

Basis is just a hairbrain scheme devised to screw the producer.
May as well turn the radio off when these market analysts start spewing why grain is going up it down. Because they no nothing more than the weather forecasters. If they started saying which companies are screwing us most their opinions would maybe be worth something.

[SASKFARMER3]

Its real easy to explain why no experts will come on and say it like it is. Because the answer is real easy they can and are and really the markets don't work.
Their I said what all the talkers don't want to say.
The markets are broken when few run the show their is no market just a monopoly that's legal.
Ah farming should have bailed last summer.
What's the number of the guy paying $73 an acre.

[bucket]

Graincos don't use futures markets they don't have to . They have zero risk buying grain they way they do.

[cottonpicken]

Quite a while back i suggested we use that chunk of money we got go into a fund to keep a bunch of lawyers fighting for us.

What ever happened to that money?

[SASKFARMER3]

Back into the treasury! I don't know the answer

[ALLFARMER]

Warren Buffett has written that lots of billionaires turn him down for his and Bill Gates "The living pledge" scheme because they worry about getting by on less than a billion if they give away a large chunk of their wealth. He figures he should write a book on "How to get by on less than 500 millon"

Henry Hamm (worth 4.5B) has written that he retired but couldn't handle it and went back to work. He started with nothing and said you can never escape the feeling of poverty once you've experienced it.

I think many of us keep working for that reason and because we want to see an intergenerational wealth transfer to help out the kids.

Bill Gates figures he is leaving less than 10 million to his kids..interesting coming from that guy.

[ALLFARMER]

Woops is called "the giving pledge"

[OneOfMany]

bucket Reply posted Jan 28, 2015 11:57 Graincos don't use futures markets they don't have to . They have zero risk buying grain they way they do.

Perhaps, this is why there is no interest with the Winnipeg futures contracts?