Agriweek Durum #'s Confirmed by ND Wheat Commission

[TOM4CWB]

Vader,

I just called Erica at the ND Wheat Commission, and she had already seen the Agriweek article on Durum... and was well aware of it.

06-07 Domestic Consumption 2.12mmt;
06-07 Production 53m bu - 1.44mmt;
06-07 Exports projected by USDA .8mmt.

Good thing Vader is not the CWB Director in charge of public relations...

Or was that Vaders "dark side" that called many of us a bunch of liars?

[TOM4CWB]

Topic: CWB system is padding the pockets of U.S. grain companies

"Vader posted Feb 25, 2007 22:11 http://www.agri-ville.com/cgi-bin/forums/viewThread.cgi?1172263949
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Francisco,

You start with a few numbers, make a bunch of erroneous assumptions and then come to a ridiculous conclusion. You should admit that you know nothing about the durum market in the US. You know nothing about who is buying and selling durum wheat down there. You know nothing about the values that durum wheat is trading for in the US. You know nothing about the grades of the durum wheat that is being traded in the US.

You should have some honesty and decency and go back to being a skulker here. You should quit posting lies on agri-ville."

Perhaps an apology would be in order here Vader?

[agstar77]

Yeah, Fran should apologize!!

[TOM4CWB]

Agstar77,

Anything less from you Agstar77, would have been really out of character for you...

We're headed for heavy ice folks...full fire to the engines on the Titanic... Ramming speed...she's infallable... and fool proof!

[BennyHin]

So Tom:
you want the CWB to magically export 4.5mmt of durum at the same price the US exports 0.8mmt? Did you and Frisco attend the same math and economics classes? What was the quality of the US's 0.8 MMT? We probably exported this many tonnes of of 4 and 5 amber durum.

[TOM4CWB]

Mr. Hin,

You said, "So Tom:
you want the CWB to magically export 4.5mmt of durum at the same price the US exports 0.8mmt"

No Mr. Hin, Just like with corn, corn in Canada rises as US corn gains value!

In Canada barley rises as corn rises in value...

As soy oil rises in the international market place... so does Canadian Canola values.

AS wheat, soybeans, corn, oats, and many other grains rise... surprise... we were offered $6.25/bu for yellow peas... for the export market.

I would appreciate it if the CWB would contract the acres it needs for the pool accounts... lock them up with the growers that want to pool.

For the rest of us that need transparent daily prices... that reflect international values...

We can cash sell into a transparent market. I am sick of the CWB selling everything through the pool... and the CWB sales dept. deciding to price discriminate.

We price Discriminate in Canola every day. Supply and Demand. Bid and Offer. Someone on each side.

"Designated area" growers need the right to say yes or no to a sales offer... just like we do with peas or Canola.

Again, if some want a pool... sign up to a pool... and those who do must be bound to that pool. We have marketed seed for decades this way... and it works with any participants who are reliable and honest.

THis is not rocket science.

It is simple respect that needs to allow grain growers to be human beings with integrety, self discipline, and earn a decent honourable living.

A fair days wages... for a fair days work.

Is this so hard Mr. Hin, for you to understand?

Please get out of my grainery... I need to be able to close the door, or open it... it must be my families choice... not some arrogant sales clerk at stupidstore that doesn't know what my farms needs are or the value of the grain in our bin!

Can I be any more polite than this?

[BennyHin]

Tom4CWB: It isnt that hard to sell 0.8 mmt's of durum at a higher price than it is to sell 4.5 mmt when the total export market is only 5-6 mmt per year. Especially when the USA's 0.8 mmt of exports are of top grades to top customers.

Your input to commodity marketing is nothing less than ideology garble.

Ps: what do you have against Super store clerks? Most of them are students trying to pay for the costs of a higher education, and future breadwinners of our economy.

pss:
when was the last time you worked a full day on the farm? between your 24 hour postings on agriville, and your trotting around to every farm meeting from here to timbuckto, I bet your fingers dont get to much MACHINERY grease on them. How many hired men on your farm?

[wedino]

pss:
when was the last time you worked a full day on the farm? between your 24 hour postings on agriville, and your trotting around to every farm meeting from here to timbuckto, I bet your fingers dont get to much MACHINERY grease on them. How many hired men on your farm?

And how is this any concern of yours, Benny?

[TOM4CWB]

Mr. Hin;

Just in case you missed it:

"Is this so hard Mr. Hin, for you to understand?

Please get out of my grainery... I need to be able to close the door, or open it... it must be my families choice... not some arrogant sales clerk at stupidstore that doesn't know what my farms needs are or the value of the grain in our bin!"

Very interesting... what did I miss here?

a)Stupidstore making me pay $.40 for bags when I buy $250 of groceries?

b)Line ups to the yingyang on 3 tills with 25 with no workers?

c)Store clerks who don't have a clue how to resolve a problem about charging twice as much as the tag said on the bin where I got the product... which I just happened to catch out of the corner of my eye while trying to get out of the way? (p.s. some stores give it to you free if they make a mistake!)

ALL of which generally makes me happy to go back to my local C00P... and have a pleasant shopping experience!

Interesting how many people besides me call it Stupidstore... I find it interesting that it offended you!

Please, get your hand out of my families grainery... A wind some day might come up & slam the grain bin door on it!

Sorry... I shouldn't go to farm meetings any more? Interesting...

I need to get grease under my fingernails more often?
Very interesting!

Manage my public life,
My farm life,
My my... what's next!

God Bless Canada... and even you Mr. Hin!