CWB at a cross Road

[AdamSmith]

And speaking of disciplined sellers or un-disciplined in this case Agstar, I haven't forgot about this bonehead sale by the cwb.

How does this sale fit into the realm of Disciplined selling?

It makes one wonder if crappy CWB Wheat sales are like, "Rats"...

For Every One You See, There Are Fifty You Don't See.


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Segundo Pih, the business with Canadian wheat, made for mills northeast, it was only possible because the CWB “gave discounting of 30 dollars for ton and there it made possible the operation”.

“They had bought the 190 dollar (the ton), was 222 dollars (FOB) when had made the business has two weeks”, the president of the Pacific said, remembering that the first one must arrive at the end of the month at Brazil. The Canadian wheat already went up for 230 dollars. “Critical it goes to be the August month, we go to have that to beat eventually in the door of the North American wheat and of Canadian wheat, depending on the price and the freight. “| For: Robert Samoa/Reuters.

[liberty]

Chaffmeister,

Where did you get your info on pricing? I'm curious to see more of it.

[chaffmeister]

http://wbc.agr.mt.gov/Producers/pricing_historical_mt.html

and

http://www.cwb.ca/public/en/farmers/payments/

[liberty]

Thanks, Chaffmeister.

There's a wealth of info on these web pages. A big part of the reason that the CWB has been taking so much more heat recently is that farmers now have access to current pricing info around the world, something that didn't exist even twenty years ago.

[northfarmer]

agstar......the advisors and writers i use for marketing info have been specifically advising to wait
on this wheat market, and as such i have priced very little of the 07/08 crop.....what little i have has been priced at profitable levels.....clouding any decision making when it comes to the board grains is the unpredictablty of the actions on the borg when it comes to the out of pool pricing options which i have used exclusively for several years....free us please oh masters!!!!

[dalek]

Just FYI, heard this morning that Ontario planting intentions for winter wheat are believed to be 40-50% over the record acreage. From what I'm seeing around here, I think that's low.

[chaffmeister]

It's true what they say, I guess.

The cure for high prices is high prices.

[TOM4CWB]

Chaff,

Question... have high prices solved the Black Oil shortage?

Will demand and finite grain production resourses bring us to a new reality in grain prices?

If average corn prices will be at a base line of $4.00/bu... where should the wheat base line be?

This is clearly a fight for acres. What do most folks believe is more important... corn or wheat?

Bigger question is this... can "Designated Area" wheat growers/CWB farm this needed income spike... remain competitive... and move forward in the new economy?

Or will we blame everyone else for our lack of ability to adapt/profit, grow the wrong types of wheat/barley... and die a slow painful death?!?

A collective co-operative could really harvest this kind of spike effectively... IF we worked together and respected each other enough to do what OPEC has done.

Please note OPEC is voluntary... member states are not thrown in jail if they miss targets... and those oil producing nation states who do not participate in OPEC are not thrown in jail either!

Respect for the individual members is key to a functioning and acceptable system.

Supply Management in Canada allows each Province to opt out if compromise to meet needs is not found.

Why on earth should the CWB system treat individual Provinces any diFFerent?

Is it truly acceptable to let Chairman Ritter put a gun to our heads and threaten us?

[silverback]

Only to some.