The most significant thing that will happen post CWB is that we will see the grain sector become a more stable wealth generating industry. The price for all grains will increase because the "CWB escape factor" will ease and the need for farmers to be pushing non-board/non-cereals in their rotations will evaporate. Even if we put 10% of the non-board acres back into wheat the prices of those non-boards will rise accoringly.
Farmers will recieve around a dollar per bushel more for their wheat and malt barley. Some classes of wheat like winter wheat CPS and durum will see values increase by as much as two dollars per bushel.
The wealth generating benifits of an open market are massive. Processing will create value and jobs. Competition will lower the costs of handling and transportation. Higher prices for all grains will create wealth that can be compounded with all the economic activity those higher prices will generate.
The negative economic impacts will be small and location sensitve. Job losses in the economic departments of the U of S and the U of M. Main street Wpg. will lose a number of people trained in communications and creative accounting. At least one prairie farm newspaper will lose it's lifeline and reason for being.
All this could happen with a stroke of Minister Goodale's pen.
Farmers will recieve around a dollar per bushel more for their wheat and malt barley. Some classes of wheat like winter wheat CPS and durum will see values increase by as much as two dollars per bushel.
The wealth generating benifits of an open market are massive. Processing will create value and jobs. Competition will lower the costs of handling and transportation. Higher prices for all grains will create wealth that can be compounded with all the economic activity those higher prices will generate.
The negative economic impacts will be small and location sensitve. Job losses in the economic departments of the U of S and the U of M. Main street Wpg. will lose a number of people trained in communications and creative accounting. At least one prairie farm newspaper will lose it's lifeline and reason for being.
All this could happen with a stroke of Minister Goodale's pen.
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