Prices from the East, Prices from the South

[parsley]

wilagro,

1. "Cherry-picking " was a term initially coined by the CWB to denigrate those few farmers who dared to make a public comparison between CWB prices and prices that could be obtained out of the reach of CWB clutches.

Don't try to re-write origination, according to the wisdomless voice of Wilago.


2.Casually stating, "So...go sell your wheat where you get the most money", indicates you understand the marketing of wheat/barley about as much as the little boy tring to do his multipication homework, but has yet to discover there are times tables.


The bottom line is this:

DA farmers want, very badly,to sell into markets where we get the most money. The CWB just won't provide the necessary licenses needed for us to do so.

Parsley

[chaffmeister]

cottonpicken:

No I'm not Larry Weber. Sometimes I think I'd like to be though.....

Wanna chat?
drooper409@hotmail.com

[Fransisco]

How presumptuous of you cotton. Do you honestly believe that everyone else in western Canada has already swept their bins clean when it comes to pricing board grains? Give your head a shake.

[ricochet]

just looked at ont daily price hrsw 7.93
cwb fixed price 8.00
as far as i understand both need f&e taken off

[TOM4CWB]

Cotton,

"And just how much of their wad would everyone have left to blow at these levels?"

How much of our grain HAS the CWB priced Cotton? Does anyone know?

I was told it was to be portioned out at a fixed amount per month, during the pool sales year.

I doubt that the CWB is being honest with anyone about what it has done for 07-08 sales. Malt Barley clearly was sold last fall for 07-08 at low prices, how much 07-08 wheat was done then?

Must have been a huge portion by the amount of "late" Adjustment Factor we are paying on our PPO Fixed Price Contracts, and the basis discounts we are forced to absorb.

The very issues that force the AWB into a corner, are the CWB issues as well.

If the CWB were to sell 1/12th of the crop from October 1/07 to October 1/08, how much "late" adjustment factor SHOULD the CWB be charging me?

Why does the CWB presume the CWB pool "owns" all the wheat and barley grown; when nothing in the CWB Act gives the grain to the CWB in the first place!

Section 32 says the CWB is to market grain offered to it.

Instead the CWB managers confiscate our grain before we even grow it.

In Plain Simple Language:

Where does the CWB get the right to confiscate all wheat and barley and sell it through the CWB pool; where is this stated in the CWB Act as ammended in 1998?

[Incognito]

Wrong

The Ontario prices are delivered to an elevator. The only deduction would be what it would cost you to haul there for your own truck.

[TOM4CWB]

ricochet;

As I understand it, Please correct me if I am wrong:

CWB Fixed Price Contract prices are for a #1 CWRS 13.5 protein in store Port of Vancouver or St Lawerence.

Ontario Board prices are for a #2 CE(Eastern)RS no protein, which comes very close to a CWB 3CWRS no protein grade; at the local elevator/terminal in Ontario.

[charliep]

Went to the USDA Portland market site for another purpose and saw the following. http://www.ams.usda.gov/mnreports/JO_GR110.txt

Exporter offers on Tuesday night for November shipment FOB vessel in
US dollars per bushel:

US 2 or btr Soft White Wheat $ 9.10 up 16

US 2 or btr Western White Wheat $ 9.13 up 16

US 2 or btr Hard Red Winter Wheat, ord.% $ 9.27 up 30

US 2 or btr Hard Red Winter Wheat, 11.5%$ 9.31 up 30

US 2 or btr Hard Red Winter Wheat, 13% NA

US 2 or btr Northern Spring Wheat, 13% $ 9.08 up 29

US 2 or btr Dk Northern Spring Wheat, 14% $ 9.12 up 29

US 2 or btr Northern Spring Wheat, 14.5%$ 9.14 up 29

Off topic but how aware are farmers of wheat cash market prices outside Canada. Does private industry/other sources publish this information for farmers to review or are most farmers left to dig out on their own? Realizing Alberta Agriculture and Food/Alberta Grain Commission already publish some prices, is there a need for government to do more?

[Southpaw]

Yes Charlie, there is a need for someone to be publishing these prices throughout Western Canada. To many of these CWB supporters are sitting with their eyes closed and their finger stuck in their---ears, saying "This can't be true".

[BennyHin]

Cotton:

Chaff is Franny,Incog, and wedino and a few more.

By the way Franny, what is the trucking or rail cost to SW Ontario from your farm?

Also, could it be that the Ontario wheat mills have to pay $8.00 /bu because the CWB refuses to sell to them at a price less than this?

I guess in a "free market" you would be the first one in line willing to UNDERCUT your neighbours and sell at $7.95/bu, and then force the next guy to sell at $7.90/bu........ and eventually the Ontario price is back to $5.00/bu.

Sueweeee.