Cwb alliance pamphlet

[katoe]

Tom you will still get your gift from the taxpayers into your agri invest acct and dont forget about part of your crop ins. premium .

[binthere]

as we needed the cwb is gone.we are free to market as we so desire. why are some crying for so called tranparency? transparency on what? are some saying government should force private buisiness to divulge private financial statements? if so would these farmers publisize their finacial statements? careful for what you ask for. its very obvious some who think they are capitalists are socialist at heart.

[Braveheart]

Also on transparency binthere, the CWB never divulged much in the way of transparency, even to farmers well after the pool closed.

[Jeff Nielsen]

Bucket
you have seen the yearly reports from the CWB, I can't add more,
as to the "missing year from the annual report" there is no deception there, I know those who prepared it. When you look at a annual report presented 8 or so months after a crop year end, there realistically no transparency there.
yes we have some work to do to get better transparency yet it is much better than it ever was for 70 years.
thanks for the comment, keeping busy here but love to see good comments!

[Jeff Nielsen]

Bucket
you have seen the yearly reports from the CWB, I can't add more,
as to the "missing year from the annual report" there is no deception there, I know those who prepared it. When you look at a annual report presented 8 or so months after a crop year end, there realistically no transparency there.
yes we have some work to do to get better transparency yet it is much better than it ever was for 70 years.
thanks for the comment, keeping busy here but love to see good comments!

[foragefarmer]

Braveheart

The CWB published annual reports every year, and were audit as well. Not sure what your getting at?

[Braveheart]

Yes Forage, those reports were as clear as the bath water in Beausejour. Missing were detailed reports of sales to customer and at what value. All was lost in the murkiness of the pool accounts. It's ok for Bucket and others to cry for transparency nowadays but it's easy to forget the Dark Ages when the excuse of "commercial sensitivity" really meant farmers just didn't need to know what THEIR grain was being sold for.

[foragefarmer]

Jeff Nielsen as a member of the B of D at the CWB, did not countries purchasing grain from the CWB request that their purchase prices not be made public? If so, did the CWB not have to respect their requests? This is in respect to Braveheart's comments

Was their any valid reasons as to why it took 8 months to publish the annual report after the end of the crop year, such grain companies reporting Cash Tickets late, or were they given time to make necessary adjustments to them. Was there backlogs in the transportation system that would have also contributed to the delays in reporting Cash Tickets as well? Seems to me there could be a lot of going on to prepare the annual report!

Just wondering, Thank you

[bucket]

Jeff

That wasn't a question about the board reports.

It was a question about industry as a whole reporting like the do in the states.

As you sat around the board table surely you looked at the impact and suggested to ritz that a system be implemented to offset the cwb issues.

I am talking about forward sales reporting like in the states when referring to transparent reports. That all graincos there have to report their sales by week's end.

[katoe]

Jeff had access to sale info. any time he wanted . correct jeff?

[TOM4CWB]

So... how many here are watching the daily reported prices elevator spot priced in regions; made available through pdqinfo.ca provided through work by the Alberta Wheat Commission?

ZONES NAME 1 CWRS 13.5 1 CWAD 13.0 1 CPSR 11.5 1 CDA CANOLA 2 YELLOW PEAS
1 PEACE $234.58 -2.04 - $204.50 -2.22 $443.21 -1.66 -
2 N ALTA $237.14 -1.56 - $205.71 -2.02 $439.28 -1.65 -
3 S ALTA $237.12 -1.47 $319.48 -0.34 $202.08 -2.01 $446.42 -1.69 $341.40 -1.05
4 NW SASK $232.15 -1.58 $313.05 -0.08 $201.14 -2.09 $441.65 -1.66 $334.17 -1.71
5 SW SASK $226.84 -1.78 $310.59 -0.10 $178.58 -2.01 $442.18 -1.70 $329.55 -1.50
6 NE SASK $224.57 -1.75 $308.01 -0.15 $193.68 -2.34 $441.52 -1.68 $325.41 -1.87
7 SE SASK $222.98 -1.92 $310.29 -0.09 $188.33 -2.27 $443.90 -1.69 $315.90 -2.32
8 W MAN $225.14 -1.70 $318.97 -0.12 $183.71 -2.05 $446.45 -1.73 $304.99 -2.67
9 E MAN $233.76 -1.67 - $180.50 -2.09 $449.96 -1.79

This is on PDQinfo.ca... published daily to meet your transparent information request... reported by all elevator co's... in western Canada.
Very good and accurate collection of prices.

!!!!!

[TOM4CWB]

The PDQ service compiles pricing information on its website, www.pdqinfo.ca, into regional price averages across nine zones covering Western Canada. Additionally, the site provides futures market closing prices, average wheat grade and protein spreads, local weather and foreign exchange rates.



Future versions of PDQ will include customizable functionality and charting capabilities and AWC will endeavour to add other commodities. Additionally, current basis information will be linked to futures market prices. The site will not report final transaction prices, and will not replace the interaction between farmers and their local elevators or farm market advisors, but will provide easily accessible and reliable market trends and indicators.



“PDQ will not engage in market advisory or analytical services, but it is designed to become the industry standard for cash grain price information across Canada for use by farmers,” said Steve. “A good segment of the industry is represented.”