Hows life for the farmers post CWB ?

[pourfarmer]

Now that you've had a winter to market
your grain to wherever the hell you
wanted, how were the prices? Were the
elevators fighting over your wheat?
Paying premiums to keep it out of the
american elevators? Did any of you take
a load or 2 down south to get that
elusive american %15 more per bu? I
heard so much about 'market freedom'
back in august that i expected this
message board to full with posts about
how much more money they were making
now...

[riders2010]

Don t bug us right now, we are too busy trying to select our hockey draft team. Who the f cares about wheat at a time like this. Sheeesh lol

[pourfarmer]

lol Can I get in that hockey draft?

[checking]

Only if you're buying all the rounds.

Isn't that what we did with the old CWB!

[hobbyfrmr]

My unprofessional,observation is, that, no one
had to run into the USA because the wheat prices
in the old "designated Area" became transparent.
Prices went up and down reflecting the local
prices. There was a stretch of days where Sask
origin HRSW prices were higher than the USA
and Ontario.
I did not do a very good job of following CWB
prices. I hope LWeber reads this, he may be able
to make some simple, accurate comparisons
between USA, Ontario, And Prairie Provinces.
Maybe like a web link to a simple spreadsheet or
something like that would be helpful.
For real accuracy, I hope the CWB could do the
same, then we could make our own unbiased
decision. After all, it's just math. Then again, that
hockey draft is kind of important.
I am satisfied with the consequences from the
removing the monopsony. Then again, I have not
experienced a time of low prices yet.

[hobbyfrmr]

Every time I think about the phone conversations
with the CWB trying so hard to explain to me
about the ppo's, and other pricing tools they
offered, I would revert to my university days
watching Saturday Night Live. The unfrozen
caveman lawyer. "I'm just a caveman, my
primitive mind can't grasp these concepts!"

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[kryger]

I have wanted to get rid of the CWB for 35 years.
Who cares what they are paying for wheat.

[freewheat]

Sold my wheat to a hog barn for more than the milling price, because now they
have to compete for my wheat. They don't simply have to use a stupid pro put
out by the stinking cwb, they look at elevator prices, and adjust their bids
to reflect the fact they have to COMPETE to get my grain.

Life is great!

8.25 for feed wheat was a nice sale. Because they had to compete with a cash
price, something we never had before.

They did not bid the price down, like the cwb lovers said, they actually bid
it up. Who would have thought?

[wakopa]

ya and ashton made a new law against these protesters, but the law is only for white people, anyone else can shut down railways roads etc.

[ProFarmer]

Do you realize that you are a mean speculating grain farmer. The CWB would have sold that grain to the hog farm for much less and you would have to pay the shipping to port and back.YYYYYou bad farmer