just to piss you off . . . .

[FarmRanger]

Well forage, price discovery is the best thing about market freedom. We don't have the state trading agency paying whatever they want to us, and being able to offer that same product on the world market for less than what we might have sold it for otherwise. If one of the players tries that same thing now, they don't get our wheat. But this has nothing to do with arbitrarily making Canadian oil worth less to us due to idiotic policies favouring more costly rail transport over pipelines.

[wmoebis]

How do we know what oil companies are asking for oil in Quebec or overseas? Maybe it is cheaper for them to bring in oil from Saudi.
Just like wheat we have no idea of what asking price is only what we are offered.

[foragefarmer]

Farmranger

I'm sure with your marketing skills you always get the top price on your wheat sales, now that you have marketing freedom. Those grain companies that buy from you, never turn any profits on your product, this of coarse is fully disclosed for everybody to see, especially the privately owned ones that put out their annual report.

[FarmRanger]

Sigh...
And I suppose you think they never made profits before the elimination of the middleman single desk buying monopoly either?

Grain companies make money by moving grain to market and oil companies make profits by moving oil to market. The more, the better. Our politicians should be trying to help, rather than hinder Canadian producers, and building pipelines for oil would do just that. Taking oil of the rails would improve the oil industry margins, and allow more rail capacity to be used by farmers, building the economy for all Canadians, including oil producers and farmers.

[wmoebis]

Seems there is so much resistance to pipelines.
Why not twin rail one for oil one for grain. When one not busy they could swap loads. Can't ship grain through pipeline.