Justin Wish List

[FarmRanger]

<i>"make grain co.s report sales volumes and values at ports . add transparency to the pricing structure."</i>

This was never done under the old _ _ _ system because "it would give our competitors access to our sales figures and put us at a competitive disadvantage".

I agree we need more transparency, but shouldn't we be careful that what we ask for doesn't put us at a competitive disadvantage?

[MBgrower]

International traders know what was sold and for how much on practically every grain cargo. Would be good if farmers could also get this info.

[FarmRanger]

Do they know the details of every sale?

If that were the case, there wouldn't have been an issue when the _ _ _ bought all our wheat either.

[farmaholic]

Re: Low down payments.... Pretty easy to walk from the mortgage early in the game if you have no skin in the game. If you needed 80K down on a 400K house, would you walk so quickly? Question is how many first time owner's have 80K in equity/cash as a down payment? Now here is a novel idea, maybe you can work yourself up to the Palace instead of moving into it as your first home. Not that 400K is even extravagant these days, but you get the picture!!

[sawfly]

i thought that was the part of the deal to get transparency , when the board was gone never happened.
are they not forced to in the US.
what good it would do us i don't know
i do not think we really want to know .
when i was on holiday , an investment consultant guy, from Winnipeg, commented that the Richardson's were flush with cash and buying oil co.s