malt barley

[blackpowder]

I'm a generally loyal person.
But CMTs' management has one mandate. Pay as
little as possible. Their pricing tactics this season
forced me to double down on production contracts
to access a second buyer. Their as loyal as some
landlords but their consistent.
Malt is a specialty crop sure, but I believe a proper
pricing system could be achieved?
I don't want to lose my local collection point as it
is close. But I've had enuf of head office's bull poop.

[westsider]

I do not know if one thing in Jeff Nielsen statement above is true.

H.Q malt demand up? (just wrong)
no direct maltster contracts till post CWB? (been around for years)
growers cant go in and out? (they buy whats cheap and whats good. end of story)
and my favorite...$1 over market (impossible, even if you did get it hope you would have the brains to not tell the world about it. My farm is about 70 miles to Alix. i know those guys, they don't pay $1 or even 25 cents to anyone. all you did was create a mess for them because now everyone else wants that impossible dollar)

the CWB is gone buddy, quit beating the horse. it died.

[Jeff Nielsen]

Westsider;
just to clarify.
As to direct contracting, yes always could in the past, my point, there was always the middle man, the former CWB, you had no choice in that matter. My point now is that is gone.
I’m not defending the Maltsters; their reputation at times has been just as bad as us the producers. How many of us have either urinated in a sample or microwave it to get out of a contract to sell into a better feed market? Or due to ongoing delays by the maltsters and rechecks, been told the barley isn’t up to snuff and we are forced to sell into a depressed feed market? Perhaps it was interference from the CWB that made us want to get out of a contract, who lost there then?
It’s happened, yet, as you already have, call me an idiot, but I think times are changing.
With direct contracting, both parties are going to have to be much more responsible in honouring those contracts.

Pat Rowan, ABiNBev – speaking at Grain World.

•US barley, no feed production all malt contracted
•US barley acreage has been decimated due to the GMO grains, primarily corn
and soybeans. They are at their lowest level of acres and it continues to drop.
•Canadian barley acres are decreasing, other grains are more profitable.
•Farmers are looking for the best returns -non GMO “small crops” are of less interest.
•Farms are getting bigger, malt barley is a more time consuming crop.
•Barley is now a specialty crop.
Post CWB:
•Better pricing opportunities. Can speculation the market, sell
optional origin.
•Can source barley whenever we want to enter the market.
•We can now ship the barley to whatever destination that we want in
Canada/US/Mexico without incurring additional costs.
•Can pay premiums for the varieties we prefer.

Tim Stonehouse – Muntons Malt (EU)speaking at the WBGA convention.

•Brewers & Distillers are working closer together with the whole supply
chain to protect the malting barley crop and their future raw materials.
•We must continue to encourage farmers by supporting and growing of malting barley and paying the premiums their require.

Rabobank Global Beverage Outlook Study (30 January 2013)

•Companies must ensure “security of supply” and develop an integrated supply chain to
guard against price fluctuations
•Manufacturers can no longer afford to rely on lowest price commodities

These are just some comments from the industry. Each of us farmers has other reasons to grow or not to grow malt barley. As to how I priced my malt? Yes for some of my potential production I did get a $1 over feed, on that day. Many others did, it wasn’t a secret price by any means. Nor is any of the pricing offers I get, since then I’ve priced more at $.55/ per bushel above feed. So what? That price was out there, those who I talk to in the coffee shop know that too.
And your comment on the CWB? You lost me there buddy! I’ve never been a fan of the monopoly.

[mcfarms]

Yah malt barley "sucks"


Inside joke.

[mcfarms]

Honestly guys though, there are growers
that do very well at malt production. Why
are they happy with malt and you are
not,look at your operation and practices
and ask yourself where is it that I am
having issues, what can I do to improve
in these areas. It may well be that you
are missing a small step or conversely
you may be better off in fact to not grow
malt at all, I know of many growers that
have very good track records with malt
production, yet the growers right beside
them refuse to grow and try for malt
anymore. What's the difference?

[blackpowder]

really, I don't want anyone else to learn how.

[mcfarms]

This is true

[ColevilleH2S]

"really, I don't want anyone else to learn how."

That there boys and girls, is what we call a "nugget of truth." LOL