Ritz cracker has spoken

[Integrity_Farmer]

fjlip How to make Vancouver efficient in moving grain
Well the grain would have to be Pooled which would be next to impossible with the current system and lack of CGC inward inspection.
There would need to be coordination of rail movement to meet sales (ocean ships) but grain companies make their own sales.

Canola was once pooled a Vancouver to improve the efficiency and car turn around time. Canola is not as complicated because it is mainly one grade.
The price we receive for canola is mainly determined by the export price at Vancouver.
Is it beneficial for the grain companies that own the crushing plants to drive up the price by more export sales?
The grain companies have a good thing going for them. Why would they change that?

[Integrity_Farmer]

Tom Your statement seems fuzzy Harper is not your friend "CNCP would put 250 lobbying centurions into Ottawa if the Ministers and PM Harper said more than this.
Not Rocket Science!

Tom you better grab a sandwich or better yet a nice steak

[Integrity_Farmer]

Braveheart
In 1984 I marketed feed Barley through the CWB an received $3.00 a bushel for it. I do not recall any quota at that time. 30 years later we are receiving about half that price.

Of course we had the CWB doing the marketing and that low freight rate called the Crow Rate.

I even had a local elevator I could haul it to and a Pool Elevator that paid me a dividend.

Marketing freedom indeed

[fjlip]

If canola WAS pooled and never under the board, how was that accomplished? Need some sort of exchange agreements for the greater good. This free for all is extremely inefficient for exports, our bottom line and Canada's reputation.
Hardly all is well, are they listening now?
Or too many RR airhorns drowning farmers out?

[Braveheart]

Integrity, had the Wheat Growers finally convinced the CWB to switch to contract calls instead of the feudal quota system by 1984? Can't recall. The WGTA had come into effect by then so you weren't under Crowsnest freight rates. They were already changing.

How are those Pool elevators doing these days? The same people and same thinking/ideologies as was supporting the monopoly. Just imagine the depression the walls of those United Church basements must have heard all those years.

But as I said, I survived. Now, we're thriving.

I would suggest everyone quit looking backwards and sideways, and start looking forward. Enjoy what you have. You're richer than you think.

[Braveheart]

Integrity, if you're only offered $1.50 per bushel for feed barley right now, you are a)full of shit, b)have REALLY poor barley c) living on the moon so freight rates are high and CP seldom sends cars there or d) are on a hunger strike and are mixed up.

[Braveheart]

The thing is, who cares what Ritz says? Change the channel. It only matters what you think. If you're not thriving, what can you do to improve your situation? If you are thriving, what next to better your performance?

Looking for Ritz, Goodale, or Easter to validate your success or failure steers you off the road to success and leaves you in a ditch of despair.

[BreadWinner]

Integrity your sounding pretty long in the tooth if you got paid dividends from your local wheat POOL. Sounds to me your not too far from the next step and it wont be a step up. Better leave the future to those that might benefit most from FREEEEEE MARKETS. WOW IT FEELS GOOD TO BE FREEEE. Its really too bad you are so ideologically brain washed you cant fathom that we are better off.

[farmaholic]

Excellent non-partisan comment Braveheart.

Take responsibility. I know we'll have to adjust to this new environment. I don't like everything about this new environment but I didn't like everything about the old one either.

[stonepicker]

Integrity, I have to agree with braveheart, your full of shit! I'm getting $3.80 picked up in the yard for bly that is 2.7 vom, 6% sprouted and some mildew, 9 semi's out 1 more to go. You moron, start dealing in facts!

[stonepicker]

Oh and i live in mb. not alberta.

[mustardman]

Tom I don't like Partisan politics , if the party I vote for f!!!ks up, I Tell them !!
Right now we have Anderson, Ritz and Harper claiming everything is peachy and oh it's because of them. Lol
You used to blame CWB for no accountability and lack of transparency ,now we can't even find out the price of grain without actually Phoning every ****en company. no prices are listed Unlike the U.S
It's a traffic jam at port because ritz ended the wheat board without a plan and let grain companies figure it out for their benefit (Marketing freedom was done for them Tom)

[Integrity_Farmer]

Stonepicker
Thanks for your kind words
I know you can't read and definitely not understand what you read but The price of barley at the Bowsman, MB. Pioneer elevator for fall delivery is $2.00 a bushel. I said that in US dollars that is $1,60 a bushel.
Give them a call rather than hurling a bunch of insults

[stonepicker]

mustard man if you have a smart phone, you have the price of wheat with you every step you take.

[stonepicker]

Integrity, do you honestly think bly is going to be worth $2.00 in fall? I don't, i haven't looked at fall bids because i'm not growing bly this year, but if that's the price they gave you then what they're really saying is we aren't interested right now. So simple answer, don't sell at that price! It's a non-factor. Like braveheart said, let's move ahead instead of looking back, i think the future looks bright!