PM Harper answers questions at SARM

[bucket]

Tom

About the durum thing and being close to the border for arbritrage.

Why didn't RITZ just reverse goodale's order?

Farmers could have contracted with American companies if they wanted and the board would have still had enough to **** things up with.

And whatever the board didn't accept could be released to the farmer to do as he pleased.

There is a solution.

But remember this. We would still have the same railway issues today. As in 1997. And no one be is working on them.

Studying yes. Decades of ****ing around.

But no action. Farmers can call the MPS of any party. They do not give a shit or this would have been done years ago.

[LEP]

Captainoblivious, I have had trucks in my yard all winter hauling durum 1000 kms to a US mill at prices that never would have been acheived under the CWB.

I did export some grain in the early 90's to the USand got export permits because it was a seed variety.

I tried to do the same in the mid-2000's and was told I had to name the purchaser of the grain, the price of the contract and then they would tell me the price of the buyback from the pool for the "no-cost" export permit.

The 3 billion lost that you claim is ficticious. I have never achieved higher grain prices in my farming career since I have had freedom. Things have never been better.

[CptnObvious]

My wheat was worth about 25% more in 2008 than I can get for it now.

Standard loading for the CWB was 3-5 days. Sometimes they could do it in 2. Last year the longest wait for one ship was 65 days. This year many ships are still waiting weeks.

No matter what you think you are getting, we should be making about$3 billion MORE if the graincos were not allowed to scoop up the excess basis( Prof. Richard Gray, peer reviewed).

[LEP]

I don't grow wheat , never will. But what is happening with that crop is a result of a world glut, simple supply and demand.

What a selective memory about CWB history we have Captain. We paid through the pools and the fudge account for all demurrage that occurred under the CWB. And there was lots.

To state that average loading times were three to four days is an absolute lie and you know it.

I have made more money with my durum since the CWB has gone than any time in history. There is no doubt that I would be stuck selling my durum for a three and holding 40% of it until next year to be paid in 2 and a half years if the CWB was in place.

[kryger]

I wonder why you would choose 2008 as your benchmark for a wheat price. I sold wheat that year for over $14 per bushel. After I paid the extortion money to the CWB.

[TOM4CWB]

Lets face it Captain
The railways were some of the greatest beneficiaries of the Single Desk.... Besides the pools

Have a great supper!

You don't work for a .. Do you?
Cheers!