Forward thinking CWB

[bucket]

Would it not stand to reason that the cwb could offer a premium in the market for new crop. If they are so good at what they do - why is there no bankable contracts out there?

I can sign $9.00 n/c peas. $13.00 canola and flax

Where is the premium for new crop durum and wheat from our so called marketing experts?

Am I too stupid, too young or what?

The cwb knows the numbers, knows the other crop prices - do they just not want us to grow wheat?

[FarmRanger]

Shouldn't they also be able to offer a "premium" forward price for wheat and durum over and above what those poor suckers to the south are being offered?

Yeah, thought so.

[farm_boy]

Forward thinking CWB.........Now that's not a phrase you see everyday.

[bucket]

I find it an interesting way to get attention. Works when I want to talk to my director and he won't answer his phone - I say something ironic or insensitive. Calls back within a reasonable time then. Call the people in Winnipeg a bunch of buffoons and incompetent and a director will defend it.

[parsley]

This is from the CWB's webpage.

Prairie wheat has wheels in Canada’s largest marketplace

February 6, 2008

Winnipeg – Prairie wheat is rolling down the 401. Commuters along the nation’s busiest roadway, between Toronto and St. Catharines, are getting a taste for western Canadian wheat from a fleet of Dover flour trucks displaying the CWB’s brand logo.

“These are essentially rolling billboards promoting Prairie wheat in the highest-traffic corridor in Canada,” CWB President and CEO Greg Arason said. “These vehicles are seen by hundreds of thousands of commuters each day in the largest consumer market in Canada. It’s a fantastic opportunity to promote the superior quality of Prairie grain.”

The CWB brand logo, affixed with a red maple leaf and bearing the message “Made from Canadian Wheat for Top Quality”, appears on 22 Dover trucks. This latest CWB branding initiative will also place the logo on Dover 20-kilogram flour bags.

Dover is a leading Canadian commercial miller, producing a wide range of flours for the bakery and wholesale markets, as well as for leading private-label retail brands, such as the Sobey’s flour. It operates mills in Saskatoon, southern Ontario and Halifax.

“Promoting the homegrown quality of Canadian wheat to consumers is one way to increase consumption of grain-based foods, which is really important when there are so many competing food messages out there,” said Dover President and CEO Howard Rowley.


The CWB and Dover continue to discuss additional brand promotions to make Prairie farmers even more visible in southern Ontario and other areas of the country.

Controlled by western Canadian farmers, the CWB is the largest wheat and barley marketer in the world. One of Canada's biggest exporters, the Winnipeg-based organization sells grain to over 70 countries and returns all sales revenue, less marketing costs, to farmers.
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1.Is Dover great and Robin Hood crappy?

2. Are farmers paying for branding? Yup.
3. We can brand but we're not allowed to have a pasta plant?

[dalek]

Of course at the same time Howson & Howson is leading the production of durum in Ontario, by Ontarians and for Ontarians. The race is on. Want to bet on the lame CWB turtle? Even when it has a headstart?

[Lifer]

In the mind of the gurus who run the CWB: what does offering a farmer a price to grow wheat have to do with that farmer actually planting wheat.

So why bother. Wait for the farmer/sucker to plant the wheat. Then sell it when the CWB likes.

That's good CWB thinking.

[parsley]

News Release from the Minister of the CWB just in:

Quote:

Federal Government Invests Almost $200,000 for the Environment in New Brunswick



GRAND FALLS, New Brunswick, February 8, 2008 – New Brunswick farmers will benefit from $192,575 in funding for an Ecological Goods and Services (EG&S) pilot project studying environmental farm practices. The announcement was made today by Mike Allen, Member of Parliament for Tobique—Mactaquac, on behalf of the Honourable Gerry Ritz, Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food and Minister for the Canadian Wheat Board, during Potatoes New Brunswick’s annual conference. "

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"--------study will contribute to the federal and provincial governments’ goal of testing and evaluating innovative policy options that will enable farmers to deliver measurable environmental results."

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hmmmm


So why doesn't Ritz announce a pilot project for allowing Western Farmers to sell their own barley and this
study will contribute to the federal and provincial governments’ goal of testing and evaluating innovative policy options that will enable farmers to deliver measurable marksting results?

Parsley

[Vader]

Another question to ask would be:

Since Ecological Goods and Services have been part of the APAS platform for a number of years and since Saskatchewan has 12 Conservative MP's why was there no announcement of this type of program in Saskatchewan????

[Raven]

Vader, I have this question about the CWB and you seem very knowledgable.

On the CWB website, they say that organic farmers can sell inter-provincially by making a payment to the CWB. How can the CWB do this because CWB Regulation 14.1 clearly states: "no fee shall be charged"?

Don't you think the CWB should follow the law?

[Vader]

Raven, have been studying under Carol Husband???

[Raven]

No. This is from the website of the CWB and the Act.

Will you answer the question?