KVD B@#L S!%T

[northfarmer]

you are an idiot burbot....you do not get it, my farm sells quality food grade products all over the world, oats, canola, peas...no KVD, now CWB, just contractual relationships between me and my buyers.....

go find a blog with your chaves/castro friends and quit wsdting our fricking time...

[winwin]

Burpie is right.State control is the only way to guarantee quality.Look at all those state quality powerhouses like North Korea,Zimbabwe,Albania.

These are the models we should be continuing to follow.Look at all the fine quality merchandise coming out of China right now PROVING that the one party monopoly system is vastly superior.

I assume then,Burp,you yourself never buy any north american goods since they are all created by evil capitalists who OWN patents and have to compete.

[craig]

The whole premise of the need to retain KVD is based on us believing that we can only be competitive in the world market if we continue to flood the market with High protein hard red spring wheat. Does it really make sense to grow only premium wheat when a)we only really get a premium on a fraction of the tonnes we grow b) We can't get a premium in the market because in a high priced market no one is really prepared to pay the premium.c)we dilute the premium in the pool accounts by giving away quality to make sales. The market place is moving towards an identity preserved basis with trace ability. That will happen with or without KVD.

[craig]

Comments About other postings.
From the Wild oat Report. KVD is not quality. End users do not specify a kernal shape.Their quality specs often have little correlation with Canadian Grain Specs. Non registered U.S. varieties can still compromise the KVD system. Liability to producers is another scare tactic. Do you as a producer not think you can have liability issues with other grains besides wheat? Everyone in the grain system needs to be responsible if we want to maintain our reputation in the world.The goal of assessing liability is about keeping everyone honest in their dealings. It is not about putting a farmer out of business. Agstar. Thanks for clarifying the CWB postion. CWB staff have been running around championing the fact that the CWB is the leader in moving away from KVD. That is obviously not the case. Melvill. Dig up the numbers. Japan seems to moving well down the list of customers of Canadian wheat. There are still ways to protect that market without KVD. Northfarmer. Elimination of KVD in 2010 is not a given only a target. If the Variety registration system doesn't change its rules you won't see varieties in the commercial market place until 2013-15.
Everybody; don't make KVD a wheat board issue. KVD removal is about allowing producers the options and tools necessary to grow the best suited wheat for their location. It's also about allowing wheat to remain a viable cropping option for producers.Last it's about moving forward and trying to keep pace with our changing world.

[northfarmer]

I agree with you Craig on most of your points...and 2010 is a target......I do know that the CWB is tied into the issue because of how they see the implementation of non KVD grading issues revoloving around the reationship, legal and liability, of farmers delvering non registered wheat to an elevator...everyone wants their ass covered....how this is done will impact the producer if all the costs of whatever system they use is downloaded to the farmers....if done improperly we may lose much of what we may otherwise gain in moving away from KVD in the long run...