CWB CONSIDERS ON- FARM PAYMENTS

[TOM4CWB]

Kernel and Boone;

You both are sort of right, but mostly wrong about tendering.

Minister Goodale told the CWB what is had to do on tendering... and a wackey CWB application of Goodale reading the riot act to the CWB... created what we have today.

[TOM4CWB]

It came from the biggest stakeholder on grain movement the Canadian Gov..
The railroad is railroading the whole country.

[poorboy]

Carefull what you wish for on giving the railways open rights to bid on moving your grain. There are only 2 companies involved an no one says that the tenders would involve price reductions go get your business. Look at gas stations, they offer convenience stores, give away items, free car washes, etc. to get you to choose them, but they seldom fight on gas price. Heck, most of them hope the other guys raise there price so they can raise the price too.

You might see the railways telling the grain companies that they will offer prompter service, etc and actually raise the freight rates.

Most US states pay more for rail freight than we do. The only reason they can sell it cheaply at the coast is that the US government built a lot of cheap terminals at the ports and the costs are extremely low, which helps to offset there higher rail freight. Did you know that it cost more to freight grain from Montana to Seattle than it does from North Dakota to Seattle!

[boone]

Tom4cwb; did some more reviewing here. Tendering in the style that was put forward is based on a study done by Kroeger-Estey,which were trying to find ways to force efficiency out of the system and looking at what has been said on record CWB looked like they were dragged into this. It was put through the paces by a stakeholder group elevator,terminal associations,etc. This is what my research shows standing here to be corrected.