Farmers loosing billions

[blackpowder]

Wakopa, nuff said!
Other than the fx ****, which we often suffered.,why is no one expending the calories to call a spade a spade. Intestinal Farmer is an idiot.
Maybe this is why I keep coming back to this negative, "we're all f__ked" site. Yes, it takes intestinal fortitude to slog through the doom and gloom and repeat time and again in the face of revisionist drivel; IDIOT!
You're an Uncle Tom saying Jim Crow is worse.

[blackpowder]

Rereading first post it appears IF is not a whipped syndrome farmer ( no slave better act like an uppity slave cause he's no better than this slave)but a union or politician wonk.

[tstep]

It ****in pisses me off when people say that we have to be like the USA. If you like it so much why the **** don't you move there. We had a Canadian grain marketing system and why did we have to be like the USA? It sure as **** isn't working here

[blackpowder]

I can't find where I said that. You, tsetse, would fall under the syndrome heading.

[Oliver88]

Is Pasteur the wheat of choice in Manitoba now due to the open border?

[sawfly]

good or bad it is gone forever.

at least we are all gonna go down together at this rate.

we had good crops here last year, so i can all to well imagine the hurt happening in some areas.

I could be next.
sharpen your pencils boys.

we are a pretty sad lot
,scrounging
for the crumbs agribusiness leaves us.
and when our only plan for financial success is hoping for a world wide crop failure.

I guess we also have to hope that
shipping oil by train stops , so the railways will haul our product to market.

and if that happened grain .cos might actually have to bid to get our grain.

nothing to it ,we will be rich in no time.

[Integrity_Farmer]

Many on this site are understanding what we lost in the CWB others are simply whistling past the grave yard.

The inefficient movement at the west coast is the problem. The solution is to reinstating the CWB. As Richard Gray ag ecomimist said this problem at Vancouver could last for decades. Gray said this is costing farmers billions of dollars.

There is limited capacity at Vancouver and no prospects to increase that capacity.

When it was CWB grain then it could go to any terminal and a boat could pick up part of a load at Pioneer move on to Viterra and then finish loading at Cargill.
Since it is now grain companies grain a boat can load only part of a load and then go back out to the ocean and wait till more cars are unloaded at that terminal. Last winter there were over 50 ships waiting at Vancouver for grain.
The grain companies cannot manage anything but they don't have to as they are making record profits. Ritz's dysfunctional marketing system is working very well for them.

The grain companies inefficient movement of grain is also lowering the price of canola and specialty crops.
Canola prices are established on what me export and not what we crush.

So any problem with grain and canola movement lowers the price to the crushers. These crushers are the same companies that are creating the problem at the west coast.

I like to be optimistic but I am realistic. The grain companies have a great thing going for them.

[tstep]

Thank you to our inefficient govt for our inefficient marketing grain handling system. We are going backwards!!

[bucket]

Tstep

Make no mistake our current system is no where like the states.

This shit wouldn't be allowed to happen there.

They exports more grain than us and were never as far behind as our rail system.

No one in the states hauls grain 1000s of miles by truck.


The government in the states might allow some of the theft but they also have offsetting programs to ensure farmers are profitable.

They also have a better reporting system that is mandatory for graincos to comply.

Transparency leads to accountability in the states.

Here it leads to a large government patronage to one group.

[Braveheart]

Bucket, check out the lineup of trucks at Mpls area flour mills sometime. No one in the States hauls 1000 of miles? Not so.

Most of the farmers that don't truck long distances down south (ND) are either in Arizona, helping look after small kids at home, or are the more subsistence type farmers.