Western Grain Elevator Association on barley marketing

[parsley]

Looks like Deanna Allen is having a difficult time "stabilizing" both MIAC and WGEA.

The boys awoke.

...and noticed the post-combining autumn-cupboard has been stabilized bare.

Parsley

[AdamSmith]

Ok, I'm going to beat this to death.

"... when what we're trying to do is bring stability to the industry," said Deanna Allen, a CWB vice-president."

FOR WHOM? My dear Deanna are you wishing to bring stability???

Not Farmers, there is nothing stable about selling $6.50 bushel malt barley and $6.00 feed barley for $4.00 and $3.00.,

there is nothing stable about farmers never knowing what the price of their product is.

there is nothing stable about making planting decisons based solely on blind faith and ignorance.

there is nothing stable about malsters never knowing whether their contracts will be delivered upon.

there is nothing stable about elevator managers having nothing to offer farmers with barley for sale except blank stares.

there is nothing stable about barley acres dropping like a rock off a cliff so long as the cwb has their greasy grimmy little mitts on malt and export barley.

there is nothing stable about a malt priced based off feed which in turn is based off cwb initials and cwb pro's.

there is nothing stable about everyone in an entire industry not just believing, but knowing deep deep down in their soles that the cwb is a parisite with nothing to offer except grief, misery, and dysfunction.

The only thing stable about the cwb is the low level of expectation.

[craig]

Deanna I'm confused. You said the CWB started working on a new pricing mechanism for malt barley last summer. Yet a few weeks ago you said the CWB has been working on this for a number of years and it got derailed last summer because the CWB wasn't sure it would be in a position to market barley.
Other point is that it is stated that they thought that the board of directors got it right in their new proposal. When is the CWB going to learn that a slim majority on the board of directors and all the support staff of the board haven't a clue in open market policy. It'd no different that asking the NDP to develop policy for the conservatives.